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History - Location of the department

The Department of Informatics and Telecommunications of the School of Economics and Technology at the University of the Peloponnese, was founded through the Presidential Decree (P.D.) 70/27-06-2013, through the merger of the Department of Computer Science and Technology and the Department of Telecommunications Science and Technology. It welcomed its fi rst students during the academic year 2013-2014. The former Departments were the fi rst to operate at the University of the Peloponnese and had welcomed students since the academic year 2002-2003.

The Department is located at the buildings of the School of Economics and Technology, about 2 km away from the centre of Tripoli, near the grove of St. George. Regular urban routes connect the Department to the centre of Tripoli and to the regional bus terminal (KTEL).

All staff members of the Department have a great variety of publications in highly esteemed scientific journals, have developed important international cooperations with relevant departments abroad, and participate in scientifi c committees of international renowned journals and conferences.

Undergraduate and Postgraduate studies

The Department of Informatics and Telecommunications has created a state-of-the-art and very competitive undergraduate curriculum, following the best Greek and international practices as well as the guidelines of the most important international scientifi c and professional associations in the fields of Informatics and Telecommunications, ACM and IEEE.

The curriculum aims to provide students with the basic knowledge and skills on Informatics and Telecommunications, so that they build solid scientifi c foundations, and with specialised knowledge in various areas, so that they meet the requirements of the professional fi eld and/or have the opportunity to be active in research. Examples of scientifi c areas treated by the Department, at an educational and research level, are: computer soſt ware and hardware, data processing and management, artificial intelligence and machine learning, signal and image processing, telecommunications systems and networks, fi bre-optic and satellite communications, internet applications.

The curriculum is structured according to the European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System (ECTS). The students have to succeed in 40 courses, compulsory and elective, and prepare a thesis as well. The Department cooperates for student exchanges within the framework of the Erasmus+ programme with over 30 European universities (among others are top universities, such as the Vienna University of Technology – TU Wien, the University of Trento and the University of Cyprus), where students can attend a part of their studies 

The undergraduate curriculum of the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications was certifi ed by the Hellenic Authority for Higher Education in 2019 aſt er an external evaluation from a committee of experts. The Department constantly makes an eff ort to improve the quality of the studies off ered, taking into consideration not only suggestions of external evaluators but also the accumulated experience of its staff and the international developments in the field.. 

The Department has designed three Postgraduate Curricula: in Computer Science, in Modern Wireless Communications and in Data Science (in cooperation with the Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications at the National Centre for Scientifi c Research “Demokritos”). These programmes welcome annually about 60 students in total and provide specialisation in the respective fi elds through modern curricula.

Career Prospects

The professional rights of the Department’s graduates were established by the P.D. 44/08-04-2009 and are equal to those awarded by relevant Departments of other Greek universities. The graduates of the Department can work in all fi elds of Informatics and Telecommunications. The graduates of the Department have the opportunity to do an internship, (even abroad through the Erasmus+ programme), through which they can come into direct contact with the professional world. Moreover, some interns are hired by the same institutions aſt er the completion of their internship.

Finally, the Department’s graduates can continue their studies with postgraduate programmes, either within the Department or at other departments of Informatics, Telecommunications or relevant fields, in Greece and abroad.

Research

To advance the research needs of the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, 10 Laboratories have been established (Wireless and Mobile Communications Lab, Knowledge and Uncertainty Research Laboratory, Communication Networks and Applications Laboratory, Human-Computer Interaction and Virtual Reality Lab, Cryptography and Security Laboratory, Soſt ware and Database Systems Laboratory, Fibre-Optic Networks and Systems Design and Development Laboratory, Digital Communications and Systems Laboratory, Computer Systems Laboratory, Digital Signal and Video Processing Laboratory), while other research groups have been operating at the same time.

Members of the Department participate in over 20 national or European competitive research programmes, e.g. in the fi elds of big data, cyber-security, IoT, logistics, smart agriculture and smart cities, electric vehicles, sensor networks and 5G systems. Undergraduate students in their last years, as well as postgraduate students oſt en have the opportunity of participating in such projects in return for payment or a bursary. The Department has research cooperations with organisations, such as CERN, and top universities abroad.

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