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<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">Dear friends and
colleagues,<u></u><u></u></font></font></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">I am sure you have
heard of the turmoil Greek Universities are going
through the last 50 days. Approximately 40% of the
administrative staff of eight large Greek Universities
including the
<u></u><u></u>University<u></u>
of <u></u>Athens<u></u><u></u>
are suspended due to austerity measures. My University
and all its activities and logistics, from financial
handling to the electricity safety in the buildings
and heating depend on the already very few UoA
employees (3.5 per 100 students) and the same holds
true for the other Greek Universities as well. <u></u><u></u></font></font></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">Reducing
administrative staff by 40% will only result in
non-functional academic institutions.<u></u><u></u></font></font></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">Standing by the
Greek Universities by signing the petition indicated
later in this message will help prevent this
'impossible' situation from happening.<u></u><u></u></font></font></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">I sincerely thank
you for your time and your support in advance.<u></u><u></u></font></font></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">Best wishes,<u></u><u></u></font></font></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">Kostas Mylonas<u></u><u></u></font></font></span></p>
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Dr. Kostas Mylonas<br>
Associate Professor in Research Methods and Statistics in
Psychology<br>
IACCP Executive Committee Regional Representative (Europe)</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial">Department of Psychology<br>
The University of Athens<br>
15784, ILISIA,<br>
Athens, Greece</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial">Tel.: 0030210 7277584<br>
Fax.: 0030210 7277534 (attn. Dr. Mylonas)<br>
e-mail: <a href="mailto:kmylonas@psych.uoa.gr" target="_blank">kmylonas@psych.uoa.gr</a><br>
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<div>Huit universités grecques sont forcées de suspendre toute
activité suite à la décision unilatérale du ministère de
l'éducation nationale de mettre en disponibilité 1349 employés
de leurs administrations. Les universités concernées sont les
suivantes: </div>
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<div>Université d'Athènes, Université de Thessalonique, Ecole
Polytechnique d'Athènes, Université de Gestion, Economie et
Management d'Athènes, Université de Crète, Université de
Patras, Université de Ioannina, et Université de Thessalie.</div>
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<div>L'impact sur l'enseignement, la recherche, la santé et la
coopération internationale est sans précédent. La menace qui
pèse sur l'enseignement supérieur suite aux mesures
d'austérité draconiennes imposées par l'Union Européenne
suscite une grande inquiétude en Grèce et au-delà de ses
frontières.</div>
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<div>En tant que scientifiques, universitaires, étudiants ou
autres, nous appelons l'Union Européenne et le gouvernement
grec à protéger le statut et le personnel des universités
grecques, afin que celles-ci puissent continuer leur mission
d'éducation et de recherche, l'importance de ces institutions
étant plus vitale que jamais. Elles sont et doivent rester les
foyers de pensée critique au sein d'une Europe aux structures
sociales érodées par des coupures massives et dans laquelle
plane l'ombre d'un extrémisme dangereux.</div>
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<div>Eight universities in Greece (University of Athens, the
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki the Athens Polytechnic
and University of Economics and Business as well as the
University of Crete, Ioannina, Thessaly and Patras) have been
forced to halt all activities as a result of Greek ministry of
education proposals to suspend unilaterally 1349 university
administrative workers.</div>
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<div>The impact on teaching, research, clinical work and
international collaboration is unparalleled and the threat to
higher education in Greece as a result of stringently imposed
EU austerity measures is a cause of great concern far beyond
Greece's shores.</div>
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<div>As academics, university workers, students and others, we
call on the EU and the Greek government to protect the status
and staff of Greek universities, to ensure that they remain
able to engage in education and research and to recognize that
these institutions are more important now than ever.</div>
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<div>They are and must remain beacons of critical thinking in a
Europe whose social structures are being eroded by massive
cutbacks and over which the shadow of far-right extremism
looms.</div>
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