The Sakis Karagiorgas Foundation was founded in 1989, in honor of the late Panteion University professor Sakis Karagiorgas.
The purpose of the Foundation is the interdisciplinary research of issues concerning the economic, political and social dimension of the state in the modern social formations that were the subject of scientific research and teaching of Sakis Karagiorgas.
Specific objectives are the research of the synthesis of state functions, the role of the citizen in modern society, the power structures of society and their relationship with the state, the analysis of different ways of pursuing social and economic policy with emphasis on fiscal policy, and determining their effects on the distribution of income and wealth.