Panteion University

The Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences (Greek: Πάντειο Πανεπιστήμιο Κοινωνικών και Πολιτικών Επιστημών), usually referred to simply as the Panteion University, is a university located in Athens, Greece. Founded in 1927, it is among the three oldest universities of political sciences in Europe.

Schools and Academic departments

The university consists of four faculties (schools) and nine academic departments:

Faculty of Economics and Public Administration:

• Department of Public Administration
• Department of Economic and Regional development

Faculty of Political Sciences

• Department of Social Policy
• Department of Political Science and History

Faculty of Social Sciences and Psychology

• Department of Sociology
• Department of Social Anthropology
• Department of Psychology

Faculty of International Studies, Communication and Culture

• Department of International, European and Area Studies
• Department of Communication, Media and Culture

Academic evaluation

An external evaluation of all academic departments in Greek universities will be conducted by the Hellenic Quality Assurance and Accreditation Agency (HQAA) in the following years.^[1]

• Department of Sociology (2013)^[2]
• Department of Social Anthropology (2013)^[3]
• Department of Psychology (2013)^[4]
• Department of Social Policy (2014)^[5]
• Department of Public Administration (2014)^[6]
• Department of Political Science and History (2014)^[7]
• Department of International and European Studies (2014)^[8]
• Department of Communication, Media and Culture (2014)^[9]
• Department of Economic and & Regional Development (2014)^[10]

History

The first, historic building of Panteion University.

The Panteion University has a long history of a creative development linked not only to the course of higher education and the development of social sciences in Greece, but also to the wider social transformation of the country. It was founded in 1927 under the name School of Political Sciences, due to the envisagement of two persons who had studied at the Free School of Political Sciences in Paris (Sciences Po), Georgios Fragoudis and Alexandros Pantos.

Pavlos Kountouriotis, the President of Greece at the time, inaugurated the central building of the University, which functioned for the first time on 18 November 1930, attended by 200 students. Alexandros Pantos demised his fortune to the School, which was republished by the Prime Minister of Greece, Eleftherios Venizelos, making the institute stable in the academical scene of the country. It was in 1931 when the School was renamed to Panteios School of Political Sciences (Πάντειος Σχολή Πολιτικών Επιστημών).

At the beginning, the contribution of the Minister for National Education, George Papandreou, was very important for the School, which consisted of two departments, the Political-Historical and the Social-Economical, while the studies were planned for six semesters.

In 1936 the School was recognised as "Public Utility of Higher Education", providing a very useful degree and in 1937 it was turned into "Legal Person of Public law". In 1951 the two departments were renamed to Department of Political Science and Department of Public Administration respectively, while the course of studies expanded to eight semesters in 1963.

After the reorganization of the Greek educational system in 1983, the Panteios School was divided into three departments: Political Science and International Studies, Public Administration, Sociology. In 1989 the School was renamed to its current name, Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, and five new departments were created, these of: Communication and Mass Media, Psychology, Social Policy and Social Anthropology, Economic and Regional development, General Department of Law. In the 1990s, two of the previous departments were split into two: Political Science and International Studies into: a) Political Science and History, b) International and European Studies, and Social Policy and Social Anthropology into: a) Social Policy, b) Social Anthropology. During the same period the pile expanded and improved.

Today the Panteion University is attended by about 8,000 active students, i.e. students who have completed up to eight semesters, while the total number of registered undergraduates is about 18,500. The undergraduate studies are planned for eight semesters. Teaching and administrative staff number about 360. It also offers thirteen postgraduate courses and includes three Research Institutes, eighteen Research Centres and four Laboratories.^[11] It also cooperates with 65 universities and institutes from 17 European countries, and European MA Degree in Human Rights and Democratisation.

University units and services

Library

The Panteion University Library is located at the central building of the university and it covers an area of 1,750 m², divided into four floors. Its purpose is to provide the academic community with its variety of material. Provided that the university supports education and research, the Library offers automated services, printed and electronic collections, and online services as well. It also participates in national consortia, in order to exploit a wider range of the available information resources.

The Library has a reading room and it also operates as a lending library. Its collection covers the wide scientific area of social and political sciences with focus on sociology, history, law and political science, philosophy, psychology, economics, management, literature, information science, social anthropology, criminology, mathematics and accountancy. The collection consists of material written mainly in Greek and other languages such as English, French, German and Spanish.

The connection includes: 70,000 monographs, 547 active subscriptions in a total of 763 journals, more than 10,000 electronic journals, online databases, 15 bibliographic databases in CD-ROM which cover the period 1998–2002, 60 classical music CDs, 85 educational CD-ROMs, 20 maps, 500 VHS and DVDs of classical movies, and 308 slides from the National Gallery of London.

Gym

Panteion University also has its own gym which is located in Neos Kosmos. Students can reach the gym using the public means of transport such as tram or metro

Participation in European frameworks

The Panteion University participates in several European Union programmes:

• Jean Monnet Programme
• ERASMUS programme
• Leonardo da Vinci programme
• EQUAL Community Initiative
• Equapol
• Tempus
• Geopac

Notable people

Professors

• Panagiotis Kanellopoulos (1902–1986), Professor of Law, philosopher, politician, Prime Minister of the Hellenic Republic (1945, 1967)
• Andreas Loverdos (1956), Professor of Constitutional Law, politician, Minister for Health and Social Solidarity since 2009
• Christos Rozakis (1941), Professor of International Law, currently the President of the Administrative Tribunal of the Council of Europe
• Konstantinos Simitis (1936), Professor of Commercial Law, politician, Prime Minister of Greece (1996–2004)
• Alexandros Svolos (1892–1956), Professor of Constitutional Law, Member of Parliament
• Michail Stasinopoulos (1903–2002), Professor of Administrative Law, Rector of the University (1951–1958), politician, President of the Hellenic Republic (1974–1975)
• Dimitris Tsatsos (1933–2010), Professor of Constitutional Law, Member of the European Parliament (1999–2004)
• Konstantinos Tsatsos (1899–1987), Professor of the Philosophy of Law, Diplomat, President of the Hellenic Republic (1975–1980)
• Ioannis Theodorakopoulos (1900–1981), Greek philosopher
• Yannis Smaragdis (1946), Film director, screenwriter
• Christos Yannaras (1935), Professor of Philosophy, Theologian
• Thanos Veremis, Professor of Political History

Notable alumni

• Anna Diamantopoulou, politician, former Minister of Education, former European Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities
• Vangelis Meimarakis, Lawyer and politician, former Minister of National Defence, Speaker of the Hellenic Parliament
• Stamatis Kraounakis, music composer, music producer, lyricist, writer and director.
• Giorgos Katsaros, Musician and songwriter
• Christos Karakepelis, Film director and writer
• Yannis Stavrakakis, Political theorist
• Philotheos Faros, Psychologist, Orthodox Priest, Pastoral Counselor
• Sotiris Kovos, Automobile designer

Alumni Association "Aristotle"

The Alumni Association "Aristotle" of the Panteion University is the oldest alumni association in Greece (1942), providing a wide variety of benefits to its members. Member's network strives to connect alumni to the University and to each other.

See also

• List of universities in Greece
• List of research institutes in Greece
• Education in Greece

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Panteion University.

• Panteion University – Official website (Greek)
• Panteion University DASTA Office (Career Office & Innovation Unit) (Greek)

Universities in Greece
Attica	Agricultural University of Athens Athens School of Fine Arts Athens University of Economics and Business Harokopio National and Kapodistrian University of Athens National Technical University of Athens Panteion University of Piraeus
Central Greece	University of Central Greece (defunct)
Central Macedonia	Aristotle University of Thessaloniki International Hellenic University University of Macedonia
Crete	Technical University of Crete University of Crete
East Macedonia and Thrace	Democritus University of Thrace
Epirus	University of Ioannina
Ionian Islands	Ionian University
North Aegean and South Aegean	University of the Aegean
Peloponnese	University of Peloponnese
Thessaly	University of Thessaly
West Greece	Hellenic Open University University of Patras University of Western Greece (defunct)
West Macedonia	University of Western Macedonia
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