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Source: A. Avdelas photo archive The ATHENS European Network Created in 1996, the Advanced Technology Higher Education Network/Socrates (“ATHENS”) consists of 15 European technological universities and institutions: the Universities and Technical Institutions of BME Budapest, ITU Istanbul, TU Delft, KU Leuven, IST Lisbon, UCL Louvain-la-Neuve, UP Madrid, Politecnico Milan, TU Munich, CTU Prague, AUTh Thessaloniki, NTNU Trondheim, TU Wien, Warsaw UT, and 9 of the 11 institutes of ParisTech “Grandes Écoles d’Ingénieurs de Paris” (AGROPARISTECH, AGROPARISTECH/ENGREF, ENPC, ENSAM, ENSCP, Mines ParisTech, Télécom ParisTech, ENSTA, and ESPCI). The School of Engineering of the Aristotle University has been a member of ATHENS since December 2007. The principal goal of the Network is to facilitate the exchange of students, professors, and researchers among the major European technological universities, so that they can participate together under European technological development and training programmes. One of the Network’s first and most unique actions concerns the organisation of an intensive course given at each member institution during one of two defined periods (“Sessions”) of the academic year (November and March). This training activity is called ATHENS (Advanced Technology Higher Education Network/SOCRATES). Each Session includes 30 hours of scientific courses, as well as 10 to 15 hours of “European Dimension” activities. At the end of an ATHENS Session, the Home Institution officially recognises the work carried out according to the results ob- >>> ’’ATHENS’’ students visit the Archeological Museum of Thessaloniki. by Aris Avdelas, professor, Department of Civil Engineering, coordinator of ATHENS for AUTh. │INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION IN EDUCATION│
Source: A. Avdelas photo archive Source: A. Avdelas photo archive ’’ATHENS’’ students visit Meteora. “ATHENS” students visit the TOPOLAB. >>> tained; this is done through an examination organised by the Host Institution and evaluated according to its own system of grading. Each complete Session is generally worth 2 to 3 ECTS credits. The objective of the ATHENS Programme is to provide students coming from a certain Institution the possibility to get to know another European pedagogical system. The Programme permits students from different institutions to briefly integrate into courses of high scientific level. When possible, local students also participate in these courses. This experience, in many cases, gives students the desire to carry out studies of a longer duration (Master’s or PhD level) at an institution different from their Home Institution, and thus favours exchanges between students of the major European technological institutions. The ATHENS Programme was established with the support of the SOCRATES European Community Programme, receiving an annual subsidy of 50.000 Euros from 1997 to 2001. Today, financing of the Programme is continued by the member institutions, with the help of industrial partners and local authorities. In order to participate in a Session, candidates are asked to do the following: Choose three or more possible courses in order of priority, taking into account the background knowledge (prerequisites) required in order to fully benefit from the course selected (additional information can be obtained from the professor organising the course, see the Course Description, and by consulting professors at the Home Institution). Fill in the Registration Form on the Web (found on either http//www.athensprogramme.com or http://www.paristech.org), and indicate, in addition to the course selected as first choice, a second and third choice as well, in order to have a strong chance of participating in the Session. ParisTech students will be asked to fill in up to six choices, depending on their institution. Fill in, print out and sign the Registration Form and the Commitment and return both forms to the ATHENS coordinator of their Institution. The coordinator is in charge of verifying that candidates have sufficient knowledge to follow the courses selected and of deciding whether or not to propose a student for the Programme. Take special note of the dates, hours and different European Dimension Programmes organised at each institution. These programmes are an integral part of an ATHENS Session. The School of Engineering at AUTh offers, with great success, two ATHENS courses: “Genetic algorithms and related biological metaphors in Engineering” and “Impact of Metro construction on the long term sustainability of a Metropolitan city: The case of Thessaloniki”. The Coordinator of the ATHENS Programme for the School of Engineering, AUTh, is professor Aris Avdelas of the Department of Civil Engineering (avdelas@civil.auth.gr). Based on data from the ATHENS Programme web page: (http://www.athensprogramme.com/main) [¤] │ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY THESSALONIKI│SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING
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