On Saturday October 5, 2013, Salzburg Global Seminar in collaboration with Fulbright Foundation Greece, with additional support from the Greek Politics Specialist Group, organized a symposium in Athens at the Cotsen Hall of the Gennadius Library, to examine educational issues both in the context of Greece and the world at large. On the agenda were two main current discussions: the innovation and the evolution of the knowledge economy, and the role of higher education.