University of the Aegean
Encyclopedia
The University of the Aegean is a state, multi-campus university
located in Mytilene
, Greece
. The university was officially founded in 1984, although its historical roots date back to the early 1920s. The University of the Aegean is the continuation of the Ionian University, which was founded in 1920 by the Greek mathematician Constantin Carathéodory
and briefly operated in Izmir
, yet had to seize its operations due to the Great Fire of Smyrna
.
The University of the Aegean is currently one of the largest in size of the 24 state supervised and funded universities in Greece. It is an institution mandated to provide inspiring, innovative, socially committed studies. As of 2011, more than 12,000 students are studying at the university, which comprises of five schools and seventeen departments with campuses in various locations across the Aegean Archipelago (Aegean Sea
). The large majority of the University's campuses is situated in the historical birthplaces of ancient and contemporary Greek
philosophers and mathematicians such as Pythagoras
, Theophrastus
.
area after the World War I. At the time, Athens was the only major educational centre in the wider area and had limited capacity to sufficiently satisfy the growing educational need of the eastern part of the Aegean Sea and the Balkans
. Professor Constantin Carathéodory
and who was a Professor at the University of Berlin at the time - proposed the establishment of a new University. Despite the political turbulence of the era over the city of Smyrna, the famous mathematician constructed a "plan for the creation of a new University in Greece", named “Ionian University” on 20 October 1919. The city of Smyrna
was the ancient center of the Ionia
n civilization along with the islands of Samos
and Chios
and had the distinct cultural heritage from great Greek
philosophers and mathematicians such as Herodotus
and Pythagoras
, who was born in Samos
.
Consequently, the Greek
Government
decided to materialize Carathéodory's vision and establish the Ionian University, based in Smyrna (today's city of İzmir
, Turkey
) on the 1st of December 1920. Constantin Carathéodory
was the first dean of the university. His intellectual brilliance as well as his ability to unite many of the great academics of that time, resulted in the creation of a University which was comparable with some of Europe's oldest Universities. However, the Ionian University stopped its operations due to the Great Fire of Smyrna
in 1922 and was later re-established as the University of the Aegean.
entered the University's network) of the Aegean Sea
. It is a University globally known for its research which spans across a number of disciplines.
, Mathematics
, Statistics
and Actuarial Science and it is considered one of the pioneers in Greece
for offering innovative, "non-traditional" courses. The university is associated with the Hellenic Actuarial Society
as well as the Groupe Consultatif Actuariel Européen
and is globally recognized for its research on the field of actuarial mathematics.
The university forms part of the 30 higher education institutions in Greece. In 2007, a research survey ranked the university as 9th -and 5th amongst the largest institutions- in research citations per (permanent) academic capita in Greece,for the period of 2002-2007. It was also ranked 6th overall in Greece (and 769th in the world) by CSIC
, a public research body in Spain. The University’s curricula have been developed to meet the requirements of the global academia, modern business and EU’s educational standards. Students are awarded degrees which fully comply with the ECTS standard, which enables them to undertake international study programmes. The school is linked with a number of world’s leading partner institutions and it has well-developed teacher and student mobility programs. During a recent (2005) evaluation of the university by the European University Association
, it was acknowledged that the university had an "impressive" research output. In the same evaluation, emphasis has been put on the fact that the Greek government should further invest in the creation of discernible institutional research strategy for the institution to further leverage the already "impressive" research output per academic capita. Academic staff combine their work with professional commitments in the Greek mainland, which promotes research and collaboration beyond the barriers of the university island network.
. In 2009, the Department of Food & Nutrition Science opened its doors to students for the first time since its establishment in 2007.
Notably the International Conference on Advances in Applied Financial Economics has been traditionally co-organized by the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
, the University of the Aegean (Department of Statistics & Actuarial-Financial Mathematics), the University of Piraeus
, and the Research and Training Institute of the East Aegean (INEAG). The University is also very active in the space of Summer Schools. In June 2010 (29/6-2/7/2010) the Summer School “Enterprise Risk Management for Actuaries” was co-organized by the Department of Statistics and Actuarial – Financial Mathematics of the University of the Aegean, the Hellenic Actuarial Society and the Groupe Consultative Actuarial Européen. Recently (2009) the University of the Aegean (School of Humanities) was awarded from the European Foundation for Quality in e-Learning (UNIQUE) with the award of "Excellence" in the use of new technologies. The University’s lecturers actively participate in the work of international research networks and groups, as well as European and Global research projects. They also deliver guest lectures at universities abroad.
The university also participates in the Erasmus EU Student Exchange Programme, in agreement with 150 universities across Europe
.
The library comprises more than 100,000 book titles, and more than 1,000 printed academic journal titles covering areas of Economics, International and European Economic Studies, Business Administration, Management Science and Marketing, Informatics
, Statistics
, Accounting and Finance
, and Management
and Technology
.
The library also offers the majority of Official Academic Journals in full text, bibliographical databases of the Official Publications of the EU, statistical data on the imports and exports of the member-states of the EU.
The library offers daily business magazines and journals in the areas of economics and business. The library subscribes over 1,000 electronic journals through all the major electronic search engines (EBSCO, Elsevier's Sciencedirect, Springer's Link, JSTOR
, MCB, WilsonWeb, Blackwell publishing, Oxford University Press, Wiley InterScience, Cambridge Journals Online).
Electronic access to the subscribed journals can be performed from any computer connected to the University intranet or irrespective of location, through dial-up, which is available 24 hours a day 7 days a week. What is more, the library offers access to local data as well as the OECD database including data, analyses and forecasts.
, an ancient cradle of knowledge. Students study the core subject of the Department in which they get admitted at, after the successful completion of the Panhellenic Examinations (Apolytirion
). Bachelor of Science
(Ptychion) courses range from 4 to 5 years and Master of Science
courses range from 1 to 2 years.
There are several other Groups that collaborate with MyAegean in all islands/university units. At the present, there are AIESEC
Local Group on Aegean Uni (based in Chios), Student Team of Blood
Donation on Aegean Uni (based on Lesvos), Student Team of Astronomy
on Aegean Uni (based on Samos). A joined effort of the administration of the institution came up on 2008 with a small printed "Survival Guide" with detailed information for every first year student on all university units / islands. "MyAegean" has an online presence at: http://my.aegean.gr/web/student-teams.html
"MyAegean" also collaborates with other student groups in volunteering initiatives in order to discover new ways in interaction and information exchange between students, professors, and individuals. The ”MyAegean” initiative has also been referred by Greek press and several other sources
University
A university is an institution of higher education and research, which grants academic degrees in a variety of subjects. A university is an organisation that provides both undergraduate education and postgraduate education...
located in Mytilene
Mytilene
Mytilene is a town and a former municipality on the island of Lesbos, North Aegean, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Lesbos, of which it is a municipal unit. It is the capital of the island of Lesbos. Mytilene, whose name is pre-Greek, is built on the...
, Greece
Greece
Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....
. The university was officially founded in 1984, although its historical roots date back to the early 1920s. The University of the Aegean is the continuation of the Ionian University, which was founded in 1920 by the Greek mathematician Constantin Carathéodory
Constantin Carathéodory
Constantin Carathéodory was a Greek mathematician. He made significant contributions to the theory of functions of a real variable, the calculus of variations, and measure theory...
and briefly operated in Izmir
Izmir
Izmir is a large metropolis in the western extremity of Anatolia. The metropolitan area in the entire Izmir Province had a population of 3.35 million as of 2010, making the city third most populous in Turkey...
, yet had to seize its operations due to the Great Fire of Smyrna
Great Fire of Smyrna
The Great Fire of Smyrna or the Catastrophe of Smyrna was a fire that destroyed much of the port city of Izmir in September 1922. Eye-witness reports state that the fire began on 13 September 1922 and lasted until it was largely extinguished on September 22...
.
The University of the Aegean is currently one of the largest in size of the 24 state supervised and funded universities in Greece. It is an institution mandated to provide inspiring, innovative, socially committed studies. As of 2011, more than 12,000 students are studying at the university, which comprises of five schools and seventeen departments with campuses in various locations across the Aegean Archipelago (Aegean Sea
Aegean Sea
The Aegean Sea[p] is an elongated embayment of the Mediterranean Sea located between the southern Balkan and Anatolian peninsulas, i.e., between the mainlands of Greece and Turkey. In the north, it is connected to the Marmara Sea and Black Sea by the Dardanelles and Bosporus...
). The large majority of the University's campuses is situated in the historical birthplaces of ancient and contemporary Greek
Greeks
The Greeks, also known as the Hellenes , are a nation and ethnic group native to Greece, Cyprus and neighboring regions. They also form a significant diaspora, with Greek communities established around the world....
philosophers and mathematicians such as Pythagoras
Pythagoras
Pythagoras of Samos was an Ionian Greek philosopher, mathematician, and founder of the religious movement called Pythagoreanism. Most of the information about Pythagoras was written down centuries after he lived, so very little reliable information is known about him...
, Theophrastus
Theophrastus
Theophrastus , a Greek native of Eresos in Lesbos, was the successor to Aristotle in the Peripatetic school. He came to Athens at a young age, and initially studied in Plato's school. After Plato's death he attached himself to Aristotle. Aristotle bequeathed to Theophrastus his writings, and...
.
History
The foundations of the University of the Aegean date back to October 1918 when Greece had expanded its geographic borders to the wider SmyrnaSmyrna
Smyrna was an ancient city located at a central and strategic point on the Aegean coast of Anatolia. Thanks to its advantageous port conditions, its ease of defence and its good inland connections, Smyrna rose to prominence. The ancient city is located at two sites within modern İzmir, Turkey...
area after the World War I. At the time, Athens was the only major educational centre in the wider area and had limited capacity to sufficiently satisfy the growing educational need of the eastern part of the Aegean Sea and the Balkans
Balkans
The Balkans is a geopolitical and cultural region of southeastern Europe...
. Professor Constantin Carathéodory
Constantin Carathéodory
Constantin Carathéodory was a Greek mathematician. He made significant contributions to the theory of functions of a real variable, the calculus of variations, and measure theory...
and who was a Professor at the University of Berlin at the time - proposed the establishment of a new University. Despite the political turbulence of the era over the city of Smyrna, the famous mathematician constructed a "plan for the creation of a new University in Greece", named “Ionian University” on 20 October 1919. The city of Smyrna
Smyrna
Smyrna was an ancient city located at a central and strategic point on the Aegean coast of Anatolia. Thanks to its advantageous port conditions, its ease of defence and its good inland connections, Smyrna rose to prominence. The ancient city is located at two sites within modern İzmir, Turkey...
was the ancient center of the Ionia
Ionia
Ionia is an ancient region of central coastal Anatolia in present-day Turkey, the region nearest İzmir, which was historically Smyrna. It consisted of the northernmost territories of the Ionian League of Greek settlements...
n civilization along with the islands of Samos
Samoš
Samoš is a village in Serbia. It is situated in the Kovačica municipality, in the South Banat District, Vojvodina province. The village has a Serb ethnic majority and its population numbering 1,247 people .-See also:...
and Chios
Chios
Chios is the fifth largest of the Greek islands, situated in the Aegean Sea, seven kilometres off the Asia Minor coast. The island is separated from Turkey by the Chios Strait. The island is noted for its strong merchant shipping community, its unique mastic gum and its medieval villages...
and had the distinct cultural heritage from great Greek
Ancient Greece
Ancient Greece is a civilization belonging to a period of Greek history that lasted from the Archaic period of the 8th to 6th centuries BC to the end of antiquity. Immediately following this period was the beginning of the Early Middle Ages and the Byzantine era. Included in Ancient Greece is the...
philosophers and mathematicians such as Herodotus
Herodotus
Herodotus was an ancient Greek historian who was born in Halicarnassus, Caria and lived in the 5th century BC . He has been called the "Father of History", and was the first historian known to collect his materials systematically, test their accuracy to a certain extent and arrange them in a...
and Pythagoras
Pythagoras
Pythagoras of Samos was an Ionian Greek philosopher, mathematician, and founder of the religious movement called Pythagoreanism. Most of the information about Pythagoras was written down centuries after he lived, so very little reliable information is known about him...
, who was born in Samos
Samoš
Samoš is a village in Serbia. It is situated in the Kovačica municipality, in the South Banat District, Vojvodina province. The village has a Serb ethnic majority and its population numbering 1,247 people .-See also:...
.
Greeks
The Greeks, also known as the Hellenes , are a nation and ethnic group native to Greece, Cyprus and neighboring regions. They also form a significant diaspora, with Greek communities established around the world....
Government
Government
Government refers to the legislators, administrators, and arbitrators in the administrative bureaucracy who control a state at a given time, and to the system of government by which they are organized...
decided to materialize Carathéodory's vision and establish the Ionian University, based in Smyrna (today's city of İzmir
Izmir
Izmir is a large metropolis in the western extremity of Anatolia. The metropolitan area in the entire Izmir Province had a population of 3.35 million as of 2010, making the city third most populous in Turkey...
, Turkey
Turkey
Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...
) on the 1st of December 1920. Constantin Carathéodory
Constantin Carathéodory
Constantin Carathéodory was a Greek mathematician. He made significant contributions to the theory of functions of a real variable, the calculus of variations, and measure theory...
was the first dean of the university. His intellectual brilliance as well as his ability to unite many of the great academics of that time, resulted in the creation of a University which was comparable with some of Europe's oldest Universities. However, the Ionian University stopped its operations due to the Great Fire of Smyrna
Great Fire of Smyrna
The Great Fire of Smyrna or the Catastrophe of Smyrna was a fire that destroyed much of the port city of Izmir in September 1922. Eye-witness reports state that the fire began on 13 September 1922 and lasted until it was largely extinguished on September 22...
in 1922 and was later re-established as the University of the Aegean.
Academic Profile
As described in its mandate, the University of the Aegean is an "international research oriented university". It is a university which embodies a unique structure which combines campuses across six islands (recently the island of LemnosLemnos
Lemnos is an island of Greece in the northern part of the Aegean Sea. Administratively the island forms a separate municipality within the Lemnos peripheral unit, which is part of the North Aegean Periphery. The principal town of the island and seat of the municipality is Myrina...
entered the University's network) of the Aegean Sea
Aegean Sea
The Aegean Sea[p] is an elongated embayment of the Mediterranean Sea located between the southern Balkan and Anatolian peninsulas, i.e., between the mainlands of Greece and Turkey. In the north, it is connected to the Marmara Sea and Black Sea by the Dardanelles and Bosporus...
. It is a University globally known for its research which spans across a number of disciplines.
Reputation
The university has an excellent reputation in the field of Computer ScienceComputer science
Computer science or computing science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems...
, Mathematics
Mathematics
Mathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity...
, Statistics
Statistics
Statistics is the study of the collection, organization, analysis, and interpretation of data. It deals with all aspects of this, including the planning of data collection in terms of the design of surveys and experiments....
and Actuarial Science and it is considered one of the pioneers in Greece
Greece
Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....
for offering innovative, "non-traditional" courses. The university is associated with the Hellenic Actuarial Society
Hellenic Actuarial Society
The Hellenic Actuarial Society is the association of actuaries in Greece. The Society was established in 1979. It is a full member of the International Actuarial Association and the Groupe Consultatif. As of 2007, the Society has about 100 full members...
as well as the Groupe Consultatif Actuariel Européen
Groupe Consultatif Actuariel Europeen
The Groupe Consultatif Actuariel Européen was established in 1978 to bring together the actuarial associations in the European Union to represent the actuarial profession in discussion with the EU institutions on existing and proposed EU legislation which has an impact on the profession.The Groupe...
and is globally recognized for its research on the field of actuarial mathematics.
The university forms part of the 30 higher education institutions in Greece. In 2007, a research survey ranked the university as 9th -and 5th amongst the largest institutions- in research citations per (permanent) academic capita in Greece,for the period of 2002-2007. It was also ranked 6th overall in Greece (and 769th in the world) by CSIC
CSIC
The Spanish National Research Council is the largest public institution dedicated to research in Spain and the third largest in Europe...
, a public research body in Spain. The University’s curricula have been developed to meet the requirements of the global academia, modern business and EU’s educational standards. Students are awarded degrees which fully comply with the ECTS standard, which enables them to undertake international study programmes. The school is linked with a number of world’s leading partner institutions and it has well-developed teacher and student mobility programs. During a recent (2005) evaluation of the university by the European University Association
European University Association
The European University Association represents and supports more than 850 institutions of higher education in 46 countries, providing them with a forum for cooperation and exchange of information on higher education and research policies...
, it was acknowledged that the university had an "impressive" research output. In the same evaluation, emphasis has been put on the fact that the Greek government should further invest in the creation of discernible institutional research strategy for the institution to further leverage the already "impressive" research output per academic capita. Academic staff combine their work with professional commitments in the Greek mainland, which promotes research and collaboration beyond the barriers of the university island network.
| Institution | Position |
|---|---|
| European Research Ranking CSIC CSIC The Spanish National Research Council is the largest public institution dedicated to research in Spain and the third largest in Europe... |
4th in Greece Greece Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe.... 6th in Greece Greece Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe.... |
Expansion Plans
The University is currently expanding its operations across its island network with the addition of the University of the Aegean, Medical School which has already been proposed to the Greek SenateGreek Senate
The Greek Senate was the upper chamber of the parliament in Greece, extant several times in the country's history.-Local senates during the War of Independence:...
. In 2009, the Department of Food & Nutrition Science opened its doors to students for the first time since its establishment in 2007.
Research
The University of the Aegean has organised and implemented 90 research laboratories with activities into the following research areas: Information and Communication Technologies; Agriculture, Nutrition; Energy; Transport, Shipping; Sustainable Development and Environment; Tourism, Culture; Education; Health; Financial; Economic and Social Sciences.Notably the International Conference on Advances in Applied Financial Economics has been traditionally co-organized by the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens , usually referred to simply as the University of Athens, is the oldest university in Southeast Europe and has been in continuous operation since its establishment in 1837. Today, it is the second-largest institution of higher learning in Greece,...
, the University of the Aegean (Department of Statistics & Actuarial-Financial Mathematics), the University of Piraeus
University of Piraeus
The University of Piraeus is a university located in Piraeus, Greece with a total of nine academic departments focused mainly on economics, business management and information technology. It is currently one of the leading academic institutions in the country...
, and the Research and Training Institute of the East Aegean (INEAG). The University is also very active in the space of Summer Schools. In June 2010 (29/6-2/7/2010) the Summer School “Enterprise Risk Management for Actuaries” was co-organized by the Department of Statistics and Actuarial – Financial Mathematics of the University of the Aegean, the Hellenic Actuarial Society and the Groupe Consultative Actuarial Européen. Recently (2009) the University of the Aegean (School of Humanities) was awarded from the European Foundation for Quality in e-Learning (UNIQUE) with the award of "Excellence" in the use of new technologies. The University’s lecturers actively participate in the work of international research networks and groups, as well as European and Global research projects. They also deliver guest lectures at universities abroad.
Academic Affiliations
The university has established academic relationships with external research institutions and organizations.The university also participates in the Erasmus EU Student Exchange Programme, in agreement with 150 universities across Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
.
- The Aegean Institute of the Law of the Sea and Maritime Law which was founded in 1991, an independent research center affiliated with the University of the Aegean, supervised by the Ministry of Justice and is financed primarily by public funds. The Aegean Institute is headquartered in the Medieval City of the island of RhodesRhodesRhodes is an island in Greece, located in the eastern Aegean Sea. It is the largest of the Dodecanese islands in terms of both land area and population, with a population of 117,007, and also the island group's historical capital. Administratively the island forms a separate municipality within...
. The collaboration of the University of the Aegean and the Institute has resulted in the realization of research, publication of scientific reports, the organization of lectures, seminars and conferences; the collaboration with Greek and international academic institutions and scholars; and the issuance of opinions and consultations. The Aegean Institute has established a successful cooperation with the Tulane University of New Orleans. Since 1995, it has co-sponsored with the Tulane University Law School the annual summer session in Rhodes. - The Museum of Natural History of the Petrified Forest of Lesbos
- The Research and Training Institute of the East Aegean (INEAG)
- Alexandros Delmouzos and Constantin CarathéodoryConstantin CarathéodoryConstantin Carathéodory was a Greek mathematician. He made significant contributions to the theory of functions of a real variable, the calculus of variations, and measure theory...
research workshops on Education and Educational planning - Hellenic Center for Marine Research (HCMR)
Notable personalities
- Professor Constantin CarathéodoryConstantin CarathéodoryConstantin Carathéodory was a Greek mathematician. He made significant contributions to the theory of functions of a real variable, the calculus of variations, and measure theory...
, Famous Greek Mathematician, visioned, established and chaired the Ionian University , which was later re-established as the University of the Aegean - Professor Michael Anoussis, American Mathematical SocietyAmerican Mathematical SocietyThe American Mathematical Society is an association of professional mathematicians dedicated to the interests of mathematical research and scholarship, which it does with various publications and conferences as well as annual monetary awards and prizes to mathematicians.The society is one of the...
, a pioneer in C*-algebra research, (Professor at the Department of MathematicsMathematicsMathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity...
) - Professor Dimitrios G. Konstantinides, London Mathematical SocietyLondon Mathematical Society-See also:* American Mathematical Society* Edinburgh Mathematical Society* European Mathematical Society* List of Mathematical Societies* Council for the Mathematical Sciences* BCS-FACS Specialist Group-External links:* * *...
, (Professor at the Department of StatisticsStatisticsStatistics is the study of the collection, organization, analysis, and interpretation of data. It deals with all aspects of this, including the planning of data collection in terms of the design of surveys and experiments....
and Actuarial - Financial MathematicsMathematicsMathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity...
) - Professor George Liagouras, winner of 2010 Karl William KappKarl William KappKarl William Kapp was a German-American economist, one of the founders of Ecological economics and one of the leading 20th century institutional economists...
Prize, for an article published in 2009 in the CambridgeCambridgeThe city of Cambridge is a university town and the administrative centre of the county of Cambridgeshire, England. It lies in East Anglia about north of London. Cambridge is at the heart of the high-technology centre known as Silicon Fen – a play on Silicon Valley and the fens surrounding the...
Journal of Economics and entitled “Socio-economic evolution and Darwinism in Thorstein Veblen: a critical appraisal”, (Professor at the Department of Financial Management & EngineeringEngineeringEngineering is the discipline, art, skill and profession of acquiring and applying scientific, mathematical, economic, social, and practical knowledge, in order to design and build structures, machines, devices, systems, materials and processes that safely realize improvements to the lives of...
, School of BusinessBusinessA business is an organization engaged in the trade of goods, services, or both to consumers. Businesses are predominant in capitalist economies, where most of them are privately owned and administered to earn profit to increase the wealth of their owners. Businesses may also be not-for-profit...
) - Dr Renee Hirschon, University of OxfordUniversity of OxfordThe University of Oxford is a university located in Oxford, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest surviving university in the world and the oldest in the English-speaking world. Although its exact date of foundation is unclear, there is evidence of teaching as far back as 1096...
, (Chair of the Department of Social Anthropology, 1987–1998) - Professor Demetris Francis Lekkas, Founding Member of G.Nest (Global Network on Environmental Science and Technology), Graduated from the Department of Environmental Sciences
Library
The University of Aegean library was founded in 1984 and it has ever since experienced modernization and ample development of its IT infrastructure, partly financed by EU programmes. Today it covers all aspects of automation, including OPAC, SDI, acquisitions, bar-code-based lending, etc., and uses the integrated library automation system Equilibrium-Libreto.The library comprises more than 100,000 book titles, and more than 1,000 printed academic journal titles covering areas of Economics, International and European Economic Studies, Business Administration, Management Science and Marketing, Informatics
Informatics (academic field)
Informatics is the science of information, the practice of information processing, and the engineering of information systems. Informatics studies the structure, algorithms, behavior, and interactions of natural and artificial systems that store, process, access and communicate information...
, Statistics
Statistics
Statistics is the study of the collection, organization, analysis, and interpretation of data. It deals with all aspects of this, including the planning of data collection in terms of the design of surveys and experiments....
, Accounting and Finance
Finance
"Finance" is often defined simply as the management of money or “funds” management Modern finance, however, is a family of business activity that includes the origination, marketing, and management of cash and money surrogates through a variety of capital accounts, instruments, and markets created...
, and Management
Management
Management in all business and organizational activities is the act of getting people together to accomplish desired goals and objectives using available resources efficiently and effectively...
and Technology
Technology
Technology is the making, usage, and knowledge of tools, machines, techniques, crafts, systems or methods of organization in order to solve a problem or perform a specific function. It can also refer to the collection of such tools, machinery, and procedures. The word technology comes ;...
.
The library also offers the majority of Official Academic Journals in full text, bibliographical databases of the Official Publications of the EU, statistical data on the imports and exports of the member-states of the EU.
The library offers daily business magazines and journals in the areas of economics and business. The library subscribes over 1,000 electronic journals through all the major electronic search engines (EBSCO, Elsevier's Sciencedirect, Springer's Link, JSTOR
JSTOR
JSTOR is an online system for archiving academic journals, founded in 1995. It provides its member institutions full-text searches of digitized back issues of several hundred well-known journals, dating back to 1665 in the case of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society...
, MCB, WilsonWeb, Blackwell publishing, Oxford University Press, Wiley InterScience, Cambridge Journals Online).
Electronic access to the subscribed journals can be performed from any computer connected to the University intranet or irrespective of location, through dial-up, which is available 24 hours a day 7 days a week. What is more, the library offers access to local data as well as the OECD database including data, analyses and forecasts.
Faculties & Departments
The University of the Aegean consists of five schools and seventeen departments that, together with the technical and administration offices, form the five University Units based on five islands in the Aegean SeaAegean Sea
The Aegean Sea[p] is an elongated embayment of the Mediterranean Sea located between the southern Balkan and Anatolian peninsulas, i.e., between the mainlands of Greece and Turkey. In the north, it is connected to the Marmara Sea and Black Sea by the Dardanelles and Bosporus...
, an ancient cradle of knowledge. Students study the core subject of the Department in which they get admitted at, after the successful completion of the Panhellenic Examinations (Apolytirion
Apolytirion
Apolytirio , is the main school-leaving certificate for secondary education in Greece and Cyprus, obtained after successfully completing the third grade of Lyceum In Greece, it is graded on a 20-point scale....
). Bachelor of Science
Bachelor of Science
A Bachelor of Science is an undergraduate academic degree awarded for completed courses that generally last three to five years .-Australia:In Australia, the BSc is a 3 year degree, offered from 1st year on...
(Ptychion) courses range from 4 to 5 years and Master of Science
Master of Science
A Master of Science is a postgraduate academic master's degree awarded by universities in many countries. The degree is typically studied for in the sciences including the social sciences.-Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay:...
courses range from 1 to 2 years.
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| School of Social Sciences | Dept. of Social Anthropology Social anthropology Social Anthropology is one of the four or five branches of anthropology that studies how contemporary human beings behave in social groups. Practitioners of social anthropology investigate, often through long-term, intensive field studies , the social organization of a particular person: customs,... and History History History is the discovery, collection, organization, and presentation of information about past events. History can also mean the period of time after writing was invented. Scholars who write about history are called historians... Dept. of Sociology Sociology Sociology is the study of society. It is a social science—a term with which it is sometimes synonymous—which uses various methods of empirical investigation and critical analysis to develop a body of knowledge about human social activity... Dept. of Cultural Technology Technology Technology is the making, usage, and knowledge of tools, machines, techniques, crafts, systems or methods of organization in order to solve a problem or perform a specific function. It can also refer to the collection of such tools, machinery, and procedures. The word technology comes ;... and Communication Communication Communication is the activity of conveying meaningful information. Communication requires a sender, a message, and an intended recipient, although the receiver need not be present or aware of the sender's intent to communicate at the time of communication; thus communication can occur across vast... Dept. of Geography Geography Geography is the science that studies the lands, features, inhabitants, and phenomena of Earth. A literal translation would be "to describe or write about the Earth". The first person to use the word "geography" was Eratosthenes... |
| School of the Environment Environment (biophysical) The biophysical environment is the combined modeling of the physical environment and the biological life forms within the environment, and includes all variables, parameters as well as conditions and modes inside the Earth's biosphere. The biophysical environment can be divided into two categories:... |
Dept. of Environmental Studies Environmental science Environmental science is an interdisciplinary academic field that integrates physical and biological sciences, to the study of the environment, and the solution of environmental problems... Dept. of Marine Sciences |
| School of Business Business A business is an organization engaged in the trade of goods, services, or both to consumers. Businesses are predominant in capitalist economies, where most of them are privately owned and administered to earn profit to increase the wealth of their owners. Businesses may also be not-for-profit... |
Dept. of Business Administration Dept. of Shipping Shipping Shipping has multiple meanings. It can be a physical process of transporting commodities and merchandise goods and cargo, by land, air, and sea. It also can describe the movement of objects by ship.Land or "ground" shipping can be by train or by truck... , Trade Trade Trade is the transfer of ownership of goods and services from one person or entity to another. Trade is sometimes loosely called commerce or financial transaction or barter. A network that allows trade is called a market. The original form of trade was barter, the direct exchange of goods and... and Transport Transport Transport or transportation is the movement of people, cattle, animals and goods from one location to another. Modes of transport include air, rail, road, water, cable, pipeline, and space. The field can be divided into infrastructure, vehicles, and operations... Dept. of Financial and Management Engineering Engineering Engineering is the discipline, art, skill and profession of acquiring and applying scientific, mathematical, economic, social, and practical knowledge, in order to design and build structures, machines, devices, systems, materials and processes that safely realize improvements to the lives of... Dept. of Economics and Tourism Management |
| School of Sciences | Dept. of Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity... Dept. of Statistics Statistics Statistics is the study of the collection, organization, analysis, and interpretation of data. It deals with all aspects of this, including the planning of data collection in terms of the design of surveys and experiments.... and Actuarial-Financial FINANCIAL FINANCIAL is the weekly English-language newspaper with offices in Tbilisi, Georgia and Kiev, Ukraine. Published by Intelligence Group LLC, FINANCIAL is focused on opinion leaders and top business decision-makers; It's about world’s largest companies, investing, careers, and small business. It is... Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity... Dept. of Information and Communication Systems Engineering |
| School of Humanities Humanities The humanities are academic disciplines that study the human condition, using methods that are primarily analytical, critical, or speculative, as distinguished from the mainly empirical approaches of the natural sciences.... |
Dept. of Primary Education Primary education A primary school is an institution in which children receive the first stage of compulsory education known as primary or elementary education. Primary school is the preferred term in the United Kingdom and many Commonwealth Nations, and in most publications of the United Nations Educational,... Dept. of Preschool Education Preschool education Preschool education is the provision of learning to children before the commencement of statutory and obligatory education, usually between the ages of zero and three or five, depending on the jurisdiction.... and Educational Design Dept. of Mediterranean Studies |
| School of Engineering Engineering Engineering is the discipline, art, skill and profession of acquiring and applying scientific, mathematical, economic, social, and practical knowledge, in order to design and build structures, machines, devices, systems, materials and processes that safely realize improvements to the lives of... |
Dept. of Product and Systems Design Engineering |
Student Communities
"MyAegean" is a student initiative, originated in 2002 when a group of students from the Department of Product & Systems Design Engineering, in Syros created a network portal for the whole of the Aegean University community. It came to act as a springboard for collaboration and exchange of ideas. It acts as a intra-network of students across the 5 islands where the University is situated. The effort is to make strong relations and connections between the local student teams as well as the rest of the university stuff and local citizens on the islands. People try to develop events, to communicate and collaborate on two different ways: both locally (on every department-university unit/ island) and globally (as part of the entire University). There are 5 local sub-groups, for Syros,Lesvos,Samos,Chios and Rhodes.There are several other Groups that collaborate with MyAegean in all islands/university units. At the present, there are AIESEC
AIESEC
AIESEC is a global youth organisation that develops leadership capabilities through their internal leadership programmes and engaging students and graduates in international student exchange and internship programmes for profit and non-profit organisations. Its international office is in...
Local Group on Aegean Uni (based in Chios), Student Team of Blood
Blood
Blood is a specialized bodily fluid in animals that delivers necessary substances such as nutrients and oxygen to the cells and transports metabolic waste products away from those same cells....
Donation on Aegean Uni (based on Lesvos), Student Team of Astronomy
Astronomy
Astronomy is a natural science that deals with the study of celestial objects and phenomena that originate outside the atmosphere of Earth...
on Aegean Uni (based on Samos). A joined effort of the administration of the institution came up on 2008 with a small printed "Survival Guide" with detailed information for every first year student on all university units / islands. "MyAegean" has an online presence at: http://my.aegean.gr/web/student-teams.html
"MyAegean" also collaborates with other student groups in volunteering initiatives in order to discover new ways in interaction and information exchange between students, professors, and individuals. The ”MyAegean” initiative has also been referred by Greek press and several other sources
See also
- University of the South PacificUniversity of the South PacificThe University of the South Pacific is a public university with a number of locations spread throughout a dozen countries in Oceania. It is an international centre for teaching and research on Pacific culture and environment. USP's academic programmes are recognised worldwide, attracting students...
, another university whose departments are distributed across multiple islands. - University of the West IndiesUniversity of the West IndiesThe University of the West Indies , is an autonomous regional institution supported by and serving 17 English-speaking countries and territories in the Caribbean: Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, The Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Dominica,...
, another university whose campuses are distributed across multiple island countries.