Undergraduate
Academic Tutor supports the academic, personal and professional development of the students.
Academic Tutors help the students to make decisions in relation to their courses, curriculum and thesis. Also, they try to identify students’ strengths and weaknesses in relation to academic study skills and encouraging them to make plans and/or take up opportunities to develop these.
Additionally, Academic Tutors assist the students with their academic and professional development (e.g. Postgraduate studies, career support)
Postgraduate
Doctoral Studies
The AOA department operates a Doctoral Studies program that is governed by Regulation 4286 / 27.9.2018. The Department announces the positions of the Doctoral Candidates based on the subject of the position to be filled up to three times a year. The minimum duration for obtaining a Doctoral Degree is 3 full calendar years, from the date of appointment of the three-member advisory committee while the maximum duration of doctoral studies is 5 full calendar years, from the date of appointment of the three-member advisory committee. So far, 29 doctorates have been announced by the Department while the current number of PhD Candidates is 19.
Director of doctoral studies: Andreas Drichoutis – Associate Professor
Doctoral studies officer: Georgia Manou – Special Technical Laboratory Staff
The AOA department has approved a Regulation for the Preparation of Postdoctoral Research, which aims to create high quality scientific research. The duration of the postdoctoral research may not be less than 1 full calendar year and more than 3 years from the date of the decision to accept the postdoctoral researcher by the General Assembly of the Department. The current number of postdoctoral fellowships is 3.
Erasmus +
The Agricultural University of Athens (AUA) runs exchange programmes for students and staff for many years. The most well-know is Erasmus+/KA1: Learning Mobility of Individuals.
The Department of Agricultural Economics and Development is very active in regards with the Erasmus+ and has concluded many inter-institutional agreements with Higher Education Institutions of Programme Countries.
These collaborations allow students’ exchanges for studies and staff exchanges for teaching. The list of partner Universities is available here.
In order to facilitate incoming students’ mobility, the faculty offers courses in English exclusively to Erasmus students. The course catalogue is regularly updated and can be accessed here.
Moreover, Erasmus+ Programme provisions students’ and staff exchanges for training. Students and staff of the Department of Agricultural Economics and Development make the most of these opportunities as well.
The Departmental Coordinator in charge of Erasmus+ is Associate Professor Georgios Georgakopoulos (ginf5geg@aua.gr).
All information about Erasmus+ Programme Actions and application procedure are available at the European Programmes’ Office website.