ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece 1925 - 2015 Prof. Theodore Laopoulos Vice-Rector for Research and Coordination A University at the heart of the city 74.000 students The largest 2.025 faculty University in 528 assistants Greece 1.086 staff 11 Faculties 41 Departments GEOTECHNICAL SCIENCES HEALTH SCIENCES SCIENCES EDUCATION FINE ARTS LAW ECONOMIC AND PHILOSOPHY THEOLOGY POLITICAL SCIENCES ENGINEERING A.U.Th. 2 A University in numbers 1 11 Hospital Faculties 40 Depts 90 61 130 years of Clinics Sections. 311 23 Labs history Study Units 49 48 1 Research & Computer Innovation Libraries Labs Center A.U.Th. 3 Human Resources 2.025 528 674 74.000 Professors Assistive Administrative Students Staff & Teaching Undergraduate: 65.000 Lecturers Staff Postgraduate: 4.764 412 PhD: 4.140 Security & International Students: Cleaning 3.877 A.U.Th. 4 Facilities Total: 470.635 m2 The facilities of the Aristotle University of Thermi Thessaloniki are located in 15.375 m2 the main campus and in the area of Thermi. Some Farm Foinikas educational and 31.457 m2 15.485 m2 administrative facilities are located off campus for practical and operational Campus reasons. A number of 386.281 m2 these facilities are located outside the city of Thessaloniki or even in Kolchiko Giannitson other cities. 2 6.784 m2 15.253 m A.U.Th. 5 Education and Research Units IASON Centre for School of Institute of Interdisciplinary Programme Centre for Foreign Modern Modern Centre for for the Byzantine Language Greek Greek Aristotle support of Research Greek studies Teaching Language Studies Studies in the Black Sea countries A.U.Th. 6 Education and Research Units Animal Forest University University University Breeding Botanic Forest in Forest in Farm & Treating Garden Taxiarchis Pertouli Station A.U.Th. 7 Education and Research Units Centre for Mount Olympus Integrated UNESCO Chair NOESIS Water & Teloglion on Education Resources Seismological Science Centre Orliaka Foundation of for Human Management Station & Technology Grevena Art Rights and Museum UNESCO Meteorological Peace Center Stations A.U.Th. 8 Museums Casts Folklore Archive of Biblical museum National Museum Museum Museum Theatre of Education History Museum of Modern Greek History Sports Museum A.U.Th. 9 Museums Museum of Geology- Wildlife Botanical Criminology Architecture Paleontology Museum Museum Museum Museum of Museum Zoology Forest Engineering Museum of Survey Instruments and Maps A.U.Th. 10 Archeological Sites FYROM A.U.Th. 11 Students Services Student University Foreign Kalandra Employment University Halls of Student Student University and Career Gym Residence Club Hostels Camp Structure A.U.Th. 12 Student Services - Committees •Student Counseling & Guidance Center on on Social Students Scholarships Psychological Policy and Legal Advisor & Bequests Support Health Supporting Employment on the students’ of on problem of cultural Postgraduate Volunteering narcotic Unions Students drugs A.U.Th. 13 Students and Staff Services Primary Day Care University Experimental Health Care Clinics Unit Schools Centre A.U.Th. 14 University Units Employment Library and Quality and Career IT Center Information Assurance Structure Centre Unit (ECS) A.U.Th. 15 Information & Communication Technology (ICT) Infrastructures & Services • Broadband (up to 10Gbps) Intranet and Internet (GEANT) Connectivity. • 113 networked buildings, 55.000 users, 14.300 network outlets, 12.780 ethernet ports, 12.500 PCs, 232 wireless access points. • Private Voice Network (VoIP enabled). • Datacenter with Disaster Recovery supporting Administration & Educational Applications (400Cores/60TB Storage) • Datacenter supporting Scientific Computing Services (400 Cores/140 TB Storage) • Interconnection with national & international e-Infrastructure • HellasGrid (1696 Cores/340TB Storage) • EGI* (680.000 Cores/374PB Storage) • PRACE* (4 Tier 0 Peta-scale Super Computers) • Authentication Authorization Infrastructure – AAI • Public Key Infrastructure (HARICA, www.harica.gr) • ICT Services: e-university applications and services (Student Information Systems, HRM, etc.), Teleconference, Email, Blogs, Mailing Lists, Online Personal Storage, Directory Services (LDAP Based), PKI, computer labs, etc. A.U.Th. 16 ECO-AUTh The first eco-University in Greece • Sustainability policy & plan (eco-office, Sustainable Development Committee). • Energy & Sustainable Mobility. • Recycling. • Sustainable Landscape Architecture. • Eco-development. • Environmental awareness & involvement. • Vegetable Gardens. A.U.Th. 17 Postgraduate Programs 44 23 Master’s Degree Special 3 agreements In cooperation 1 with other in English (Protocols) for Universities Joint PhD Supervision 16 France 68 2 Italy 16 2 1 Portugal Interdisciplinary Greek-French 2 Spain 1 Belgium 2 1 Ireland ERASMUS- MUNDUS A.U.Th. 18 International Relations & European Educational Programs 123 outbound Teaching Staff for teaching or training “Diploma Supplement Label 2012-2015” Award 19 outbound Administrative personnel for training 744 outbound students for studies or practice 321 inbound students for studies or practice ECTS LABEL application (Sep/2013) 240 inbound students Member of T.I.M.E. (Top Industrial Managers for Europe) Network. Offers Double Degrees in Engineering. (AUTh & Ecole Centrale Paris) active program without 146 Inter-university agreements with members mobility Universities in Europe, USA, Canada, Australia and Asia 541 Bilateral agreements with European 1 inbound student Universities (1422 inter-departmental) A.U.Th. 19 Evaluation Quality Assurance International ranking 5-year self-evaluation 1 reports: 42/42 Schools 101 41 External reviews 201 (42nd the School of 301 Modern Greek 401 Language) 501 601 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 QS RANKING ARWU (SHANGAI) WEBOMETRICS A.U.Th. 20 ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Research Activities 21 Active Researchers (as percentage of Faculty Members) 67% 68% 70% 58% 60% 52% 47% 50% 40% 30% 20% 10% 0% 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 A.U.Th. 22 External Researchers 3 500 3 000 2 500 2 000 1 500 1 000 500 0 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 A.U.Th. 23 Projects During the last 3-years: • Implementation of 3.800 RTD projects • Collaboration with 3.000 partners • Participation of: – 1.500 members of the teaching and research staff (75% of total) – 5.800 external associates – a large number of under/postgraduate students • Overall budget up to 145 million euros • Average annual turnover 48 million euros A.U.Th. 24 Research Funding in AUTh 60 000 50 000 40 000 of euro 30 000 20 000 Thousands 10 000 0 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 Total Inflows National Funding International Funding A.U.Th. 25 2012-2014 Funding per research area Social Sciences & Culture Economics 5% Health & Food 8% 28% Materials & Processes [12%] Computers & Telecomm. 11% Environment & Energy Urban development 32% 4% A.U.Th. 26 Total turnover per funding source 2010 - 2014 European Union Private Sector 39 225 832,84 46 741 293,93 Government 27 605 421,24 Other 32 181 589,09 NSRF 70 858 440,41 A.U.Th. 27 Funding per Faculty Faculty of Physical Faculty of Philosophyy Faculty of Agriculture, Education and Sport 9 280 408,79 Forestry and Natural Sciences Environment 1 862 731,77 17 115 881,95 Faculty of Theology Faculty of Engineering 301 389,44 51 233 621,25 Faculty of Sciences 37 074 479,20 Faculty of Education 3 351 939,23 Faculty of Economic and Faculty of Health Sciences Political Sciences Faculty of Fine Arts 35 640 979,67 1 733 785,42 582 547,04 Faculty of Law 985 133,39 A.U.Th. 28 New Research Programmes (number per year) 1200 1000 800 1041 788 951 600 739 400 721 200 0 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 A.U.Th. 29 Research Areas RTD Projects are carried out in the scientific areas of: • environment • informatics • telecommunications • technologies for industry • transport • biotechnology • biomedicine and health • agriculture, forestry and fisheries • education and languages • history and archaeology • social and economic sciences A.U.Th. 30 EUROPEAN COLLABORATIONS (2014) PER COUNTRY AND PER TYPE OF ORGANISATION RESEARCH OTHER COUNTRY CENTERS COMPANIES ORGANIZATIONS UNIVERSITIES MINISTRIES TOTAL 1. UNITED KINGDOM 12 21 21 86 0 140 2. GERMANY 28 26 19 61 1 135 3. FRANCE 42 13 31 45 3 134 4. ITALY 19 30 32 51 1 133 5. SPAIN 15 20 28 38 5 106 6. BELGIUM 10 5 28 27 1 71 7. NETHERLANDS 21 12 4 22 2 61 8. SWEDEN 12 5 5 16 0 38 9. POLAND 6 2 2 22 1 33 10. PORTUGAL 6 4 4 19 0 33 A.U.Th. 31 Some Successful Applications • LTFN (Laboratory for thin films Nanosystems and Nanometrology - industrial research) etc • Symbiosis (Alzheimer’s support application) • Nutrition Formula (licensing) • Smart Eyes (devise for people with disabilities) • Sign2Talk (devise for people with disabilities) • Exothermia (spin-off company) • EMISIA (spin-off spin off company) A.U.Th. 32 Funding A.U.Th.’s Academic Activities 4,00 3,50 3,00 2,10 1,86 2,23 2,50 1,37 2,00 in millions millions in Euro 1,50 1,00 1,73 1,42 1,08 0,50 0,00 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 Funding of new Areas Regular Funding A.U.Th. 33 Scholarships and Researchers’ Funding 2,50 2,00 1,50 1,00 Enhancing Educational Process in millions millions in Euro Scholarships (Phd, PostDoc) 0,50 Research Proposals Funding (Lecturers, Assistant Professors, Humanities, Basic 0,00 Research) 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 A.U.Th. 34 2013 Research Performance 48 Thematic Research Networks 37 53 Students Patents distinctions 33 896 Industrial Teaching Staff Research Distinctions Projects A.U.Th. 35 ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI Thank you Prof. Theodore Laopoulos Vice-Rector for Research & Coordination.