B. INFORMATION ON THE INSTITUTE
B.1 Name and address of the Institute
The Technological Educational Institute (T.E.I.) of Piraeus.
The T.E.I. of Piraeus is located on a site of 197.000 m2 , in the middle of an olive grove, not far from the port of Piraeus. All the premises of the institute are situated in the same area.
Address: T.E.I OF PIRAEUS
Thivon 250 & P. Ralli
12244 Egaleo, Athens, Greece
Tel: +30-1-5381000
Fax: +30-1-5450962, 5450964
Web: www/teipir.gr
B.2 The ECTS Institutional Coordinator
The ECTS Institutional Coordinator is:
Professor Apostolos Kosidas
Technological Educational Institute of Piraeus
Thivon 250 & P.Ralli
12244 Egaleo-Greece
Tel: +30-1-5613703, 5381129
Fax: +30-1-5450962, 5450964
E-mail: akossid@teipir.gr
The academic year is divided in two semesters, each of which has a duration of 15 full time weeks.
Winter semester: September 25 to January 25
1st examinations period: second half of January
2nd examinations period: first half of February
Spring semester: March 1 to June 15
1st examinations period: second half of June
2nd examinations period: first half of September
February for spring semester
B.4 General Description of the Institute
The Technological Educational Institute of Piraeus is one of twelve independent and self-governed T.E.I that constitute the national system of higher technological education in Greece. It offers more than 50 different degree-awarding-programs across the entire spectrum of learning, from arts and social sciences to applied sciences and engineering.
The purpose and the nature of these programs is comparable to that of the German Fachhochschulen, the French Institutes Universitaires de Technologie and of the Polytechnics of Great Britain, in some aspects. In contrast to some of these schools, the T.E.I issue their own degrees.
The T.E.I of Piraeus was founded in its present status of higher education by L. 14014/83 as all of the system’s similar Institutes which have their origin at the early KATEE and KATE schools (Centers of Higher Technological Education) with the latter being more vocational, and of two duration regarding their programs.
Today T.E.I’s are part of the country’s higher education system with specific-and distinctive when compared to Universities-mission. It provides high school graduates with scientific and academic training of immediate application to the economy, although many T.E.I graduates decide to continue in for post-graduate study in the Universities after obtaining their T.E.I degree. Responding to such interest on the part of its graduates, the T.E.I of Piraeus, and a few other as well, have started to experiment with post-graduate programs of their own which are expected to be officially incorporated in their basic program once the necessary legislature is completed. The study at T.E.I, as all levels of education in Greece, is provided free of tuition and education material and is supervised by the Ministry of Education.
Today the T.E.I as a system, and each T.E.I from its individual and unique place and program, are still in evolution and development and complete for resources necessary to more effectively accomplish their mission within the Greek economy and the European Community as a whole to which Greece is a member state. Already, many national and international authorities and organizations have come to recognize the importance of their role and respond positively to its claims on educational and industrial research resources and allotments.
The current enrollment of the T.E.I network nationwide is close to a 100.000 students and each year around 20.000 new students enter the system through the national examinations that allow about one fourth of all secondary education graduates to be placed at the country’s Universities and T.E.I at a proportion of 55% and 45% respectively.
Accreditation: Within the European Community, the T.E.I belong to what Directive 89/48 of the European Council defines as tertiary level of education together with the Universities. Their degrees, and those of the Greek Universities, are the only tertiary education degrees offered by schools operating within Greece that are recognized by Greek and EC authorities. T.E.I graduates are accepted for post-graduate studies in accredited Universities worldwide.
International activities: The T.E.I of Piraeus is a member of TEXT (Tranns European Exhauge and Transfer Consortium), EURASHE, RE-EN (Reseau Europeen de Formation pour le Tiers Secteur/European Third sector Training Network), INTERNATIONAL TEXTILE ACADEMIA, EAIE (European Association for International Education).
It participates actively in European inter-University and University-Industry exchange and training programs such as SOCRATES, LEONARDO, TEMPUS/PHARE, TEMPUS/TACIS, JEAN MONNET E.P.E.A.E.K etc. Through these E.C. sponsored programs, students and academics have the opportunity to exchange educational and cultural experiences. The office of International Relations and European Programs of T.E.I of Piraeus is the coordinator of this activity on a full-time basis and an academic administrates it.
Enrollment: Approximately 10.000 students are currently enrolled at the T.E.I of Piraeus attending classes, or doing their practical training.
Staff: The Institute’s tenure faculty is around 250 supplemented by an equal or even greater number, occasionally, adjunct teaching staff while the administrative and other supporting staff totals approximately 130.
Organization: The Institute has two faculties:
1. Faculty of Applied Technology with seven departments
These faculties are supported by two general Departments, Mathematics and Science & Materials Technology.
Administration: The highest administrative body of the school is the T.E.I General Assembly and the T.E.I Council. Resolutions that affect specific parts of the School such as individual Faculties and Departments, or specific major subjects within departments, are initiated by similar bodies, organized at the level of each subdivision, before they are –if necessary- submitted to the higher level. The departments enjoy significant degree of resolutionary freedom regarding their own affairs while, at the same time, they are sufficiently represented at the higher levels of decision making. The highest academic as well as administrative official of the Institute is the President assisted by a Vice-President. There is a Director for each faculty and a Head in each Department, as well as a Supervisor for each major subject within departments. The academic officials at all levels are elected by electoral bodies that include all faculty members and appropriate representation of all other supporting functions at the School as well as of the Students Body.
Supporting services: The following services provide support to the overall operation of the Institute.
Research activities: The T.E.I of Piraeus competes for the European Community research funds as well as from the Greek government and various business organizations. For the last two years the Institute secured over 1.2 mil ECU for the research and proposals.
B.4.2 Admission and registration procedure
Students, who have succeeded to the general examinations after graduating the High School, must formally register at the Department of their choice and declare the courses they are going to attend. Their registration usually takes place during the first week of the winter or spring semester.
Students entered in Higher Education must hold a secondary school certificate. They are sitting every June in general examinations, which are conducted by the Central Committee of the National Entry Examinations System, in order to enter to a Department of their preference in an AEI (Universities) or T.E.I (Technological Educational Institutes).
The language that the courses are taught is the Greek language and its knowledge is an obligatory prerequisite. During the first five semesters there is a course of foreign language where the students may choose among English or French or Italian or Russian languages.
ECTS students do not need to have a Greek language certificate, but they must have a command of the Greek language.
B.4.5 Specific requirements for mobile (ECTS) students
ECTS students must have successfully completed the 1st year of their studies. The students should send their application forms to the ECTS Coordinator and be in contact with him for making all necessary arrangements.
When the ECTS students are accepted by the Department of the Host Institute, they have to make their registration at the Department Secretary’s office. They also have to present their passport, a transcript of their records and four passport size photographs.
B.4.6 Accommodation and cost of living
Accommodation for students is provided in The Students Hall of Residence in a hotel at the center of Athens. All the applications are examined with respect of student’s family income. Other ways of accommodation is as a lodger or in a hotel.
An ECTS student has the possibility of free feeding at T.E.I restaurant on campus or in a cooperative restaurant at the center of Athens.
The total cost of living and studying in Piraeus for a student is about 500 ECU per month. For an ECTS student this cost of living is reduced to 280 ECU per month, when he uses T.E.I accommodation and restaurant.
B.4.7 Restaurant facilities
The Institute has a well-equipped restaurant with large dinning room that serves breakfast, lunch and dinner to students as well as to faculty at low prices. Many of low-income students receive free meal coupons from the state that can be used at the restaurant. In addition to the main restaurant there is a cafeteria operating at all hours with sandwiches, snacks and beverages.
B.4.8 Library facilities
The students of the Institute can benefit from a lending library that is still under development and a comfortable reading room on the ground floor of the building complex looking at the olive grove. Nevertheless, all students receive basic textbooks free of charge. Recently the library is equipped with a local computer network with access to the Internet. There are also one large (500 seats) and two smaller amphitheaters for special lectures and occasions.
B.4.9 Health Insurance
A physician and a nurse are on duty every day at the school’s medical center for emergency situations. All students receive free medical and hospital insurance coverage, under the National Health Service System, as long as they are not covered by other individual or family plans of their own.
There is a general public hospital very near the Institute, about 2 Km and 5 min by car:
‘General hospital of Nikaia’, Tel: 4902047
B.4.10 Sport facilities
There are outdoor facilities for basketball, volleyball and tennis. The students can make use of these facilities at their spare time free of charge.
B.5 Useful information
B.5.1 How to reach the Institute
By the permission of ‘S. Kapranidis & N. Fotis’
The above placed map shows the city of Athens and its surrounding suburbs. The symbols on the map have the following meaning:
Athens city center
Piraeus city center
East terminal of ‘ELLINIKO’ airport
Campus of T.E.I of Piraeus
The Institute is located at about 5 Km from the center of Piraeus and 8 Km from the center of Athens.
B.5.2 Banks in Piraeus
There is an ATM for cash redraws inside the Institute of the ‘AGRICULTURAL BANK OF GREECE’.
Other banks nearby campus or in Piraeus are the following:
Thivon 304, Egaleo
Ethnikis Antistaseos, Piraeus
Iera Odos 230, Egaleo
Navarinou 12, Piraeus
Ethnikis Antistaseos, Piraeus
Dimarxiou 22, Egaleo
B.5.3 Theatres and cinemas in Piraeus
Theatres in Piraeus:
Agiou Konstantinou 4
N. Faliron underground station
Cinemas in Piraeus:
Dimotikou Theatrou square
Dimarxiou square
Korai square
X. Trikoupi 39
B.5.4 Emergency phones
Other useful phones:
