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initiative. They consist of students, undergraduate and postgraduate, who are
dedicated to the objectives of the organisation in each Technical university.
At the moment, more than 1,800 students in all member-universities work voluntarily
for the maintenance and improvement of the activities that BEST offers
the students. Greece is officially represented by 4 local teams:
• National Technical University of Athens (LBG Athens).
• Technical University of Crete (LBG Chania).
• School of Engineering of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (LBG Thessaloniki).
• School of Engineering of the University of Patras (LBG Patras).
Activities of the organisation
In order to achieve their aims, the local groups of BEST organize a variety of
activities:
BEST, the Board of
European Students
of Technology, is a
continuously increasing,
non-profit and nonpolitical
organisation.
Since 1989, we provide
communication,
collaboration and the
possibility of exchange
for students all across
Europe.
• BEST Courses
In a learning event, participants attend lectures given by the university’s
teaching staff or by experts from companies. They visit companies, industrial
plants or research centers, and sometimes take part in case studies. The
main topics of learning events cover various fields of technology, economics,
marketing, and management. At the end of the course students take an exam,
which is designed to test the results of the course and evaluate the participants’
success. An increasing number of courses are recognised by many
universities, and students attending these courses can get credit points (ECTS
-European Credit Transfer System) from their home universities.
• BEST Events on Education
BEST Events on Education are seminars that last for about 6 days. They gather
engineering students and professors from Europe with the purpose of evaluating
and finding new paths for higher engineering education in Europe. There
are currently two kinds of such events: BEST Symposiums on Education and
BEST-Academics and Companies forums.
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