Ms. Evridiki Spyropoulou has graduated the Department of Social Policy and Social Anthropology of Panteion University of Social and Political Studies. She is a postgraduate student of a Master of Science Degree in Integrated Development and Management of Rural Areas of ​​the Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development. She is staff member at the Agricultural Museum of AUA since 2006 and has the responsibility of its collections as well as the various activities organized and performed by the Museum.

She has the responsibility of posting the books taught within the curriculum of the Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development both on the platform of estudent system of AUA as well as on the one of EYDOXOS system.  She generally assists in the educational and research work of the Department.

- MSc in Waste management, Hellenic Open University

- BSc in Management of rural environment and natural resources, University of Thessaly

Ms. Alexia Giannouzakou is a member of the Laboratory and Teaching Staff at the Department of Agricultural Economics and Development. She has a BSc. in Agricultural Economics from the Agricultural University of Athens, an MBA in Tourism Business Administration by the Greek Open University and a MSc. in Sustainable Development with emphasis on Local Development by Harokopio University of Athens. Since 1995, in the framework of European and National Research Programs, she has been a collaborator of the scientific team of the Laboratory of Agricultural Policy & Cooperatives of the Department of Agricultural Economics and Development.

Her scientific interests relate mainly to the sustainable development of rural areas and agricultural holdings, to the enhancing socio-economic action of alternative forms of tourism and activities in the countryside and to the status of local products and especially local food in the globalized economy.

Ioanna Skaltsa holds a degree in Horticulture from Aristotle University of Athens, a MA in Landscape Design from Sheffield University, UK, a diploma in Pedagogical Studies, from the School of Pedagogical & Technological Education (ASPETE) and a Certificate in Counseling, Life Coaching and Mentoring, from the University of Aegean.

Between 1998-2018 she coordinated the establishment of AUA’s following structures: Career Services Office (CSO), Center for the promotion of employment and career (ΔΑΣΤΑ) and Structure for the support of young entrepreneurship at AUA, where she worked as Project Manager and Career Advisor.

Since 2018 she belongs to the teaching and research staff of the Laboratory of Agricultural Extension, Agricultural Systems & Rural Sociology, where she is also a PHD candidate.

She has long experience in coordinating and participating in European Programmes, in career counselling and mentoring students and young graduates of AUA and in facilitating workshops on competences and personal development, using experiential and participatory methods, inside and outside the classroom (outdoor education).

Her research interests are amongst others in the field of professional mindset and competences development of the modern agronomist agent of chance, transformative learning, and participatory approaches in teaching, with emphasis on the experiential method and in outdoor education and nature connectedness.

Dimitris Panagiotopoulos studied History at the Department of History and Archeology of the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Athens. In 2003 he was awarded a doctorate by the Department of History of the Ionian University. He is the Director of the Documentation Center for the History of Greek Agriculture of the Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development of the Agricultural University of Athens. He was an Alternate Member of the Ephorate of General State Archives, while since 2009 he has been teaching the course “Greek State and Society in the 19th and 20th Century” in the Postgraduate Program “Historical Research, Teaching and New Technologies” of the Department of History of the Ionian University. He is the author of three books and several related articles in Greek and English. His latest book entitled: Petros Kanaginis. His contribution to the remodeling of the rural environment in the interwar period was released in 2013 by the publications of the Bookstore of Hestia.

His research interests include the history of Greek agriculture and agricultural development, as well as the political, economic and social organization of the modern Greek state and the rural area in the 19th and 20th centuries. Also, the formation and development of higher education and the scientific and academic elites in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Mrs. E. Oikonomopoulou is a graduate of the Department of Agricultural Economics and Development of the Agricultural University of Athens, holder of a Master of Science in Economic and Regional Development of the Department of Economic and Regional Development of Panteion University. Her scientific interests focus on rural and regional development and she has participated as a collaborator in European Research Programs, prepared at the Laboratory of Rural Economic Development, with Professor S. Efstratoglou as scientific supervisor. He also participates in the educational work of the Laboratory with the support of the laboratory exercises and the works of the students.

Her scientific interests focus on rural and regional development.

E. Nellas is a member of the Laboratory and Teaching Staff at the Laboratory of Agribusiness Management in Department of Agricultural Economics & Rural Development, Agricultural University of Athens. He has a BSc in Agricultural Economics from the Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development – Agricultural University of Athens, a Postgraduate Diploma Specialization in Agricultural Economics “D.S.P.U.” from Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Montpellier (I.A.M.M.) and a Postgraduate Diploma Specialization in the Agricultural Applied Statistics and Computer Science. He has worked as researcher in the Agriculture University of Athens and he has taught courses with regard to PC use in programs of Postgraduate Training and in Private Technical Schools. He has participated in projects regarding the Rural Development and Farm Management, with emphasis in the Statistical Analysis of Economics Data with use of PC and in the Creation of completed Informative systems. From 2002, he teaches the laboratorial exercises of course “Research Methods in Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology” that is related with the Analysis of Data with use of SPSS/PC for Windows.

He has participated in projects regarding the Rural Development and Farm Management, with emphasis in the Statistical Analysis of Economics Data with use of PC and in the Creation of completed Informative systems.

Mr Athanasios  Makrandreou is a member of the Laboratory and Teaching Staff at the Informatics Laboratory of the Agricultural University of Athens.

Born in Cyprus, I enrolled to School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki from where I graduated in 1982 with a degree in Mathematics. Afterwards, in 1985 I received a postgraduate degree, in Informatics and Operation Research, from School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences of National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. Since February 2006, I am a holder of PhD degree from Informatics Laboratory of Agricultural University of Athens in the knowledge domain area of “Knowledge Base Systems”. From April 1985 until July 2000 I worked at the Animal Breeding and Husbandry Department of Agricultural University of Athens, with the Statistical analysis of data as my major responsibility. Since August 2000 I am a member of the Special Laboratory and Teaching Staff of the Agricultural University of Athens at the Informatics Laboratory, teaching classes on Computers Programming and Databases. In parallel, I participate in the development and maintenance of the administrative applications of the university. Major author or coauthor of the technical specifications, and member of the development team, for various programmes of the University related to ITC, funded through the 3rd Community Support Framework of the European Union (2000-2006) or the National Strategic Reference Framework (NSRF) (2007-2013). Such programmes are the Improvement of undergraduate studies in Agricultural University of Athens, Equipment of tele-teaching and Advanced Network Services in Agricultural University of Athens, Modernization and enrichment of the library of the Agricultural University of Athens, Online Electronic Services at AUA and Design and Implementation of a Digital Repository of the AUA. Single author or co-author of several research papers concerning knowledge representation and management, repositories and digital libraries and ontology development and usage.

His interests cover the subjects of knowledge representation and management, knowledge base systems, system analysis and design of information systems, design and implementation of expert systems, ontology design and usage and development of web based systems using Java related technologies.

Sophia Leni was born in Athens. She holds a degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Patras and two MSc in “Engineering Infrastructure Works” from the Department of Civil Engineering of the University of Patras and “Environmental Design of Cities and Buildings” from the School of Sciences and Technology from the Hellenic Open University. She has worked in the private sector, in the public sector and as a laboratory assistant at the former TEI of Piraeus. She is a PhD candidate in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Development. PhD thesis in” Land Policy and rural Systems. A GIS Approach”.