Cretan Studies Association has inaugurated a program of educational partnership with Emmanuel College hosting a group of students from who have been attending the seminar "In the Steps of Thucydides". During their stay in Chania, Crete (March 7-11) and as part of the program, beyond the teaching segment, the students, accompanied by their professor, Mr Petros Vamvakas, were offered guided tours of archeological and historical monuments and they were acquainted with the cretan countryside, its people and their culture.

The guests were guided to the minoan antiquities by Mrs Ekaterini Tsagaraki-Stefanoudaki, to the classical and roman antiquities of Aptera by the archaelogist Mrs Constandina Binaki and to the old city of Chania and its historical monuments by Mr Costas Psarakis, of the Ephorate of Byzantine Antiquities of Chania.