Technological Educational Institute of Athens INFORMATION GUIDE TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE 1 2 Ô.Å.É. of Athens Technological Educational Institution PROSPECTUS 3 4 Ô.Å.É. of Athens Technological Educational Institution PROSPECTUS 5 T ECHNOLOGICAL E DUCATIONAL INSTITUTION Athens 6 Contents 59 Studies 60 1. Registration 60 2. Renewal of registration 60 3. Transfers 60 4. Rating - Classification enrolment Foreword by the President 09 60 5. Studies - grades scale T.E.I. of Athens Technological Educational Institution 13 62 6. Examinations - Grades Aegaleo Since the ancient times 15 62 7. Diploma Thesis 62 8. Practical Training Brief History of T.E.I. of Athens 16 62 9. Student Care Legal & Ιnstitutional framework 19 62 10. Board and Lodging Academic and Administrative Staff 21 63 11. Military Service and Deferment Services 22 Administrative Bodies 22 65 Academic Calendar Administrative Bodies and authorities 22 65 Scholarships Faculty Administrative Bodies 23 65 Endowments Administrative Bodies of the Departments 23 65 Athletics and Sports Center Administrative Bodies of the Course Sectors 25 67 Foreign Languages Centrer Academic asylum Academic freedom 25 67 The Arts The Students Union 26 67 European Programs 68 1. Socrates - Erasmus program Faculties and Departments 29 68 2. Leonardo Da Vinci Program 1. Faculty of Health and Caring Professions. 30 71 3. Tempus Program 2. Faculty of Technological Applications. 38 71 European Credits Transfer System (E.C.T.S.) 3. Faculty of Fine Arts and Design. 46 72 Postgraduate Studies Programs 4. Faculty of Administration Management and Economics. 52 73 Research and Technology 5. Faculty of Food Technology and Nutrition. 57 78 The Library of T.E.I. of Athens 82 Careers Ofiice 84 Network of T.E.I. 84 The Students Support and Counselling Service 86 Public and International Relations Office 87 Research Programs 90 Getting to T.E.I - Aerial photograph of T.E.I. of Athens 91 Campus layout 92 Map of Attici 7 8 Education in Greece. It comprises five Modern Greek society, which submits the Faculties, hosting thirty six Departments. conditions to which our Institution tries to T.E.I. of Athens employs about 600 people correspond directly, in order to keep pace with as permanent Educational Staff (including all the developments and not just follow them. levels), 1700 people as Educational on short The present publication presents the outcome term contract Staff, 350 administrative and of our Institution members who have worked Special Technical Staff, whereas the students for a long period to record all the essential go up to the number of 35.000. It is situated in information concerning the structure, Aegaleo municipality, occupying an extended organisation, operation and special activities area, where the central administrative of each Department. We are therefore today services and most of the Departments very pleased to present you this Prospectus, and Faculties are sheltered. During the easy to be read, which can provide an idea last years, the permanently increasing of all the aspects of our Institution. We have number of students made us to extend the tried to make it quite detailed and particularly PRESIDENT OF T.E.I. OF ATHENS administrative and educational activities of functional, so that it provides all the essential Dimitrios Ninos certain Departments and Secretariats to some information without being tiring. It also gives neighbouring regions (Ilion, Athinon Ave., and immediate answers to all vital questions of the Thebon Ave.). T.E.I. of Athens has a leading scientific community members or any other role in all the efforts for the Technological citizens. We all hope that this publication will Educational Institutions upgrade and it has contribute to an upgraded image of T.E.I. of contributed decisively in their institutional Athens within the Greek society, which has development and social approval. Its main always been the final recipient and critic of and continuous objective is the improvement our work. of the provided education, a goal which is FOREWORD being achieved through the renewal of the BY THE PRESIDENT study curricula and the modernisation of The President of T.E.I. of Athens material and technical infrastructure, in order The Technological Educational Institution to correspond to the multiple needs of the of Athens is the first in size among the contemporary job market. The existence and Technological Educational Institutions and itinary of T.E.I. of Athens have always been Dimitrios Ninos the third among all the Institutions of Higher unbreakably tied up with the course of the Professor 9 EDITORIAL COMMITTEE Dimitrios Ninos President of T.E.I. of Athens Antonios Kammas Vice-President of T.E.I. of Athens Michael Bratakos Vice-President of T.E.I. of Athens Eleni Vavouraki Assistant Professor of the Faculty of Health and Caring Professions Periklis Karanasios Professor of the Faculty of Management and Economics Nikolaos Kolliopoulos Professor of the Faculty of Technological Applications Georgios Panagiaris Professor of the Faculty of Fine Arts and Design Dimitrios Tibis Lecturer of the Faculty of Food Technology and Nutrition Dia Roufani Head of Public and International Relations Office Vicky Aletra Member of Public and International Relations Office Eleni Gklinou Artistic Supervision - Associate Professor of Graphic Design ARTISTIC DESIGN Efi Panagiotidi Graphic Design Graduate - T.E.I. of Athens 10 Ô.Å.É. Presentation Technological Educational Institution This present document intends to give PROSPECTUS a complete and detailed portrait of the activities of the above Institution. Between tradition and development, Science and Technology, Training and Higher Education, T.E.I. of Athens, with a 35 year history, makes always efforts to provide the highest possible level of studies to the younger generations. Address: Agiou Spyridonos str., 122 10, Aegaleo, Attica, Greece Call Centre: +30 210 538 5100 11 MAP Drama Τ.Ε.Ι. and Kilkis T.E.I.. Branches SERRES KAVALA Florina Kastoria THESSALONIKI Grevena WEST. MACEDONIA Katerini Nea Moudania Kozani Ioannina LARISSA Igoumenitsa Karditsa EPIRUS (Arta) Preveza LAMIA Lefkada Karpenissi IONIAN ISLANDS CHALKIDA (Argostoli) Amfissa Lixuri MESSOLOGHI Eghio ATHENS IONIAN ISLANDS PATRA Amaliada PIRAEUS Zakynthos Pyrgos KALAMATA Spetses Sparta Rethymno Chania Aghios Nikolaos CRETE Heraklio Lassithi 12 Ierapetra ÔÅÉ of Athens Technological Educational Institution The Technological Educational Institution (T.E.I.) of Athens is a Tertiary Higher Education Institution. It is a Public Legal self-governed Entity. Its general organisation is guided by the state laws whereas more specific issues are fixed by internal regulations. The T.E.I. of Athens is the third biggest Institution of Higher Education in Greece, with approximately 35.000 students. It has five Faculties with a total of thirty six departments and it covers almost all the scientific and technological Disciplines. The T.E.I. of Athens employs more than 2300 people (both permanent and under contract Academic and Administrative Staff as well as specialised technicians). 13 14 Elefsinian mystery used to pass by the above In fact, considering the Greek reality, all Aegaleo road while its sides were decorated with Western Attica remained an enormous virgin Since the ancient times... monuments of various eminent Athenians, countryside, for the Greek reality, virgin such as the General Molottos’, the guitar countryside region, its greater part belonging singer Tarantinos Neokles’, Kifisodoros’, as to landowners who had got their properties The Technological Educational Institution of well as the one in honour of Pethionike the from eminent people of the Ottoman Empire. Athens is located in the West of Attica, in the concubine, erected by her friend Arpalos. Aegaleo began to get developed as a historic municipality of Aegaleo. The name The Hiera Odos passed by a bridge, built settlement area at the beginning of the 20th Aegaleo is a compound form of the ancient by the Roman Emperor Adrianos, over century, but still in an anarchic way, without Greek words aeges (αίγες = waves) and laas the Elefsinian Kifissos river, which has a central plan and of course without the least (λάας = stone, rock) and it means the rock been preserved to the present day; it also infrastructure. The population increased in the where the waves brake. Even if the name crossed the Ritous, the present lake of entire Western Attica, after the catastrophe seems rather incomprehensible considering Koumoundourou, where only the priests of in the Minor Asia war due to the installation the modern topography of Aegaleo, it has the Godess Dimitra had the right to fish. The of thousands of refugees in this part of to be noted that the mount Aegaleos or Midwestern area of Attica is being crossed the Attica area, who had preferred, as the Aegaleon in ancient Attica, comprised the by the Kifissos River up to the present day. A French geographer G. Burgel informs us southern part of the mount Partnitha, it had ramification of the above river, used to pass “the soft Aegaleo side to the abrupt slopes a height of just 463 meters, and it ended up through the region called Aegaleo today, of Hymettus”. Today, approximately 120.000 in the Perama side which made it really the irrigating an important area of «Eleonas» people mainly with a small or medium income break water seawall of West Attica. (=”Olive grove”), a well-known ancient region live and work in Aegaleo. Today, one quarter According to the ancient historian Herodotus, in Western Attica, extended roughly in about of Aegaleo municipality is an industrial region, Xerxes, in September of 480 B.C., was 9.000 acres. The cottages, olive trees, and while a Municipal Theatre, a Cultural Centre, following the sea fight of Salamina from the gardens of the Athenian people have existed an Arts Laboratory and a lot of athletic west side of that mount while his escort kept in the Plain of Kifissos River from the ancient installations also exist in the town.