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International Cooperation in Education ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY THESSALONIKI│SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION IN EDUCATION THESSALONIKI│JUNE 2009 Preface ristotle University’s School of Engineering has always put emphasis on international cooperation. This led to numerous fruitful collaborations and links with reputed Universities and AResearch Centers all over the world, with obvious benefits for the School’s personnel and students. Cooperation in education opened new paths regarding postgraduate studies of our students in famous European and North American Institutes of Technology. Furthermore, opportunities arose for attracting distinguished scientists to Thessaloniki to teach in our School’s postgraduate courses or to give lectures in seminars. By participating at international consortia, colleagues were able to widen their scientific horizon entering new, mostly interdisciplinary, fields of research. At the same time, they were given the chance to finance their research activities by ensuring necessary funds, the latter being essential in view of the insufficient resources provided to our School by the Greek government. The present brochure contains an overview on the international cooperation of Aristotle University’s School of Engineering, the main emphasis being on education. An important aspect is the bundle of options that our students have for participating at exchange programmes with other Technical Universities. Moreover, the role of our School in relation to major international networks is presented. The outcome of all these activities over the years makes us optimistic regarding the impression that our international partners have on the capabilities of our students and the level of the educational and research work conducted in our School. This is of particular importance in the present situation which is considered to be critical for the higher education system in Greece. Therefore I would like to express my deep gratitude to all colleagues devoting a considerable amount of time and energy to strengthen our international cooperation. Thanks to their effort I am confident that our School will find its way in the rapidly emerging European Higher Education Area. Professor Nicolas S. Moussiopoulos Dean of the School of Engineering │INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION IN EDUCATION│ Table of contents The ATHENS European Network .........................................................................3 T.I.M.E.: Multinational and European character education ...............................5 Cooperation between the School of Engineering, AUTh, and École Polytechnique, France ........................................................................9 ENHSA: European Network of Heads of Schools of Architecture ..................11 Ff-Continuum: From the School Lab to the Fabrication Workshop ..............3 e-archidoct: Virtual Campus for Post-Master Studies in Architecture ...........6 Cooperation between the Engineering Schools of Thessaloniki and Lausanne ............................................................................9 ERASMUS-MUNDUS: Network and e-Business Centred Computing ...........21 SEFI: European Society for Engineering Education .........................................23 Engineering research and education through CESAER ...................................25 RMEI: A Mediterranean breeze over engineering studies ..............................6 BEST: Academic seminars all over Europe ......................................................28 IAESTE calling .....................................................................................................3 ENHSA - Latin America ......................................................................................32 • Editor: Committee of International Collaborations of the School of Engineering, AUTh, consisting of: K. Pitilakis, professor, Department of Civil Engineering A. Avdelas, professor, Department of Civil Engineering A. Zabaniotou, assist. professor, Department of Chemical Engineering A. Karadimou-Yerolibou, professor, Department of Architecture C. Baniotopoulos, professor, Department of Civil Engineering A. Papadopoulos, assoc. professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering E. Sidiropoulos, professor, Department of Rural and Surveying Engineering K. Tsouros, professor, Department of Mathematics, Physics and Computational Sciences G. Chasapis, professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Z. Samaras, professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering • Coordinator: N. Tsakiris, teaching staff, Department of Civil Engineering • Proof reading and editing: O.-J. Ktenidou, PhD candidate, Department of Civil Engineering • DTP: thema, K. Kotoulas, 46, Kerasountos str., Thessaloniki • Printing: Cromotyp s.a., 73, 7h November str. │ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY THESSALONIKI│SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING RCHIVE A PHOTO PHOTO AS ’’ATHENS’’ students visit the Archeological Museum of SOURCE: A. AVDEL A. SOURCE: Thessaloniki. The ATHENS European Network reated in 996, the Advanced Technology Higher Education Network/Soc- rates (“ATHENS”) consists of 5 European technological universities and institutions: the Universities and Technical Institutions of BME Budapest, CITU Istanbul, TU Delft, KU Leuven, IST Lisbon, UCL Louvain-la-Neuve, UP Madrid, Politecnico Milan, TU Munich, CTU Prague, AUTh Thessaloniki, NTNU Trondhe- im, TU Wien, Warsaw UT, and 9 of the 11 institutes of ParisTech “Grandes Écoles d’Ingénieurs de Paris” (AGROPARISTECH, AGROPARISTECH/ENGREF, ENPC, ENSAM, ENSCP, Mines ParisTech, Télécom ParisTech, ENSTA, and ESPCI). The by Aris Avdelas, School of Engineering of the Aristotle University has been a member of ATHENS professor, Department since December 007. of Civil Engineering, The principal goal of the Network is to facilitate the exchange of students, pro- coordinator of ATHENS for fessors, and researchers among the major European technological universities, AUTh. so that they can participate together under European technological development and training programmes. One of the Network’s first and most unique actions concerns the organisa- tion of an intensive course given at each member institution during one of two defined periods (“Sessions”) of the academic year (November and March). This training activity is called ATHENS (Advanced Technology Higher Education Net- work/SOCRATES). Each Session includes 30 hours of scientific courses, as well as 0 to 5 hours of “European Dimension” activities. At the end of an ATHENS Session, the Home Institution officially recognises the work carried out according to the results ob- >>> │INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION IN EDUCATION│ 3 >>> tained; this is done through an examination organ- ised by the Host Institution and evaluated according to its own system of grading. Each complete Session is generally worth to 3 ECTS credits. The objective of the ATHENS Programme is to provide students coming from a certain Institution RCHIVE A the possibility to get to know another European ped- agogical system. The Programme permits students PHOTO PHOTO AS from different institutions to briefly integrate into courses of high scientific level. When possible, lo- cal students also participate in these courses. This experience, in many cases, gives students the desire SOURCE: A. AVDEL A. SOURCE: to carry out studies of a longer duration (Master’s or ’’ATHENS’’ students PhD level) at an institution different from their Home Institution, and thus favours visit Meteora. exchanges between students of the major European technological institutions. The ATHENS Programme was established with the support of the SOCRATES European Community Programme, receiving an annual subsidy of 50.000 Euros from 997 to 00. Today, financing of the Programme is continued by the mem- ber institutions, with the help of industrial partners and local authorities. In order to participate in a Session, candidates are asked to do the following: Choose three or more possible courses in order of priority, taking into account the background knowledge (prerequisites) required in order to fully benefit from the course selected (additional information can be obtained from the professor organising the course, see the Course Description, and by consult- ing professors at the Home Institution). Fill in the Registration Form on the Web (found on either http//www.ath- ensprogramme.com or http://www.paristech.org), and indicate, in addition to the course selected as first choice, a second and third choice as well, in order to have a strong chance of participating in the Session. ParisTech students will be asked to fill in up to six choices, depending on their institution. Fill in, print out and sign the Registration Form and the Commitment and re- turn both forms to the ATHENS coordinator of their Institution. The coordina- tor is in charge of verifying that candidates have sufficient knowledge to follow the courses selected and of deciding whether or not to propose a student for the Programme. Take special note of the dates, hours and different European Dimension Pro- grammes organised at each institution. These programmes are an integral part of an ATHENS Session. The School of Engineering at AUTh offers, with great success, two ATHENS courses: “Genetic algorithms and related biological metaphors in Engineering” “ATHENS” students and “Impact of Metro construction on the long term sustainability of a Metropoli- visit the TOPOLAB. tan city: The case of Thessaloniki”. The Coordinator of the ATHENS Programme for the School of Engineering, AUTh, is professor Aris Avdelas of the Department
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