Leonidas-Vasileios Maniatis was born in Amarousion, a suburb of Athens, in 1994. After his graduation from the General Lyceum (the Greek equivalent to High School) of the Franco-Greek School of Ursulines, in June 2012 and his success in the Panhellenic Exams, he was accepted as a student in the Department of History and Archaeology of the Philosophical School of the University of Ioannina. In April 2014, his application for transfer to the same Department and School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens was accepted. He graduated from that Department, choosing the field of study of Archaeology, in May 2018, with a degree of 8,64/10. He was also honored to be selected to pronounce the oath on behalf of his fellow students, because of his high grading. From September 2018, he continued his studies for his Master Diploma, at the Same Department of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, by choosing to specialize in Prehistoric Archaeology. He concluded his studies there, with a degree of 7,75/10, in November 2022.
During his studies, he participated in the archaeological excavation of his Department at Plasi, Marathon, from late May to early June 2017.
Leonidas-Vasileios is also a writer. He writes prose and poetry and some of his writings have been distinguished in a variety of literature competitions, in Greece and Cyprus (15th Panhellenic Student Literature Contest of the Society of Publishers of Northern Greece, Larry Niven Awards 2015, Logo-Technia 2015 Contest, Contest for the Return of the sculptures of Parthenon of the UNESCO Association of Piraeus and the Isles, Larry Niven Awards 2016, Larry Niven Awards 2017, 2nd Panhellenic Contest of Poetry of Limassol’s Cultural Horizons, 8th Universal Literature Contest of the Greek Cultural Association of Cypriots in Greece, Silver Page III Contest, 4th Panhellenic Contest of Literary Expression of the Municipality of Vyron, Game of Thrones in Byzantium Contest, Larry Niven Awards 2018, Larry Niven Awards 2020, Larry Niven Awards 2021 and 3rd Prose Contest KEFALOS).
He has also participated, via the Cultural CenterPaidi kai Dimiourgia, in the transnational European project 3D4C4 (3D Printing: a Cultural accelerator for Education) that was coordinated by the University of the Aegean and founded by Erasmus +. The project concerned the use of the innovative technology of 3D printing in pre-scholar and Primary Education, and specifically in the teaching of subjects related to Cultural Heritage. From September 2023, he is also participating in the 3D DeSi (Overcoming Disabilities & Enforce Social Inclusion via 3D Printing) transnational European Project that is also founded by Erasmus +, as a partner of the team of the University of the Aegean, which coordinates the program. That program’s objective is to support students with special needs and to contribute to their education, via the usage of 3D printing technology.
In the context of his participation in the aforementioned international programs, he attended international meetings and conferences, held at Leiria, Portugal (2022), at Agia Marina of Lesvos, Greece (2022), at Archangelos of Rhodes, Greece (2023), at the city of Rhodes, Greece (2023) and at Sarzana, Italy (2023).
By now, on the list of his published literature works, there are three personal books and over 20 prose writings and poems, participating in various anthologies.
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Last Update (dd/mm/yyyy): 27/11/2022
