Despoina Tsiafaki, Research Director and Head of the Department of Culture and Creative Industries, discussed with Patrick O’Shea the THRACE-CONNECT project and the exploration of the archaeological and historical landscape of Rhodope. You can listen to the entire discussion at the link below. https://www.podomatic.com/…/2026-07-08T07_00_00-07_00

On the 9th of March, 2026, Dr. Despoina Tsiafaki, director of Research and Head of the Department of Culture and Creative Industries, gave a lecture entitled “Mountains Without Borders: Exploring the Archaeology of Southern Rhodope,”  in Hall 2 of the Rectorate of Sofia University. This lecture presented a synthetic review of archaeological sites identified in

The kick-off meeting of the THRACE-CONNECT project was held on 12/6/2025, with the participation of the members of the ATHENA RC team (Despoina Tsiafaki, Vassilis Evangelidis, Yiannis Mourthos, Melpomeni Karta, Kostas Stavroglou, Maria Topalidou), in the ILSP department of Xanthi. The research project “Unraveling Connections between Aegean and inland Thrace via the Rhodope mountains, through