Partners

The International Hellenic University, or DIETHNES PANEPISTIMIO ELLADOS (DPE), was established by Law (No 3391/2005) and based in Thessaloniki, Greece. The IHU was Greece’s first public university where programmes were taught exclusively in English, comprised of three (3) Schools that offered twenty-four (24) master programmes. The International Hellenic University was re-established by Law (No 4610/2019), is based in Thessaloniki, comprises nine (9) Schools and thirty-four (34) Departments, and is located in Thessaloniki, Kavala, Serres, Drama, Katerini, Edessa, Kilkis, Didymoteicho. The two Schools (the School of Humanities, the Social Sciences and Economics, and the School of Science and Technology) of the IHU belong to the University Center of International Programmes of Studies (UCIPS) of the International Hellenic University offering programmes that are taught exclusively in English. DPE (as well as the former Institutions) is systematically evaluated by external evaluators in the context of the Quality Assurance Authority in Higher Education. The UCIPS, developed to facilitate modern learning methods, is situated on a 16,000m² campus outside Thessaloniki, the second-largest city in Greece with an uninterrupted history of 2,300 years. Our state-of-the-art facilities, such as virtual classrooms, electronic library, IT labs, Digital Manufacturing and Materials Characterization Laboratory, and Molecular Ecology/Molecular Biology Lab create an environment conducive to higher learning and research for our students. Members of the Dept. of Surveying and Geoinformatics Engineering of IHU have coordinated and/or participated as members of respective research teams in more than twelve competitive Hellenic and European research projects including ERASMUS + KA2. As members of the Geoinformaticsgraphical Systems and Information Sector of the Technological Research Center (TRC) of Serres, DPE team has implemented in the four years of TRC operation nine applied research projects in the broader region of Serres.

The Laboratory of Geomatics Engineering (GENIE Lab) (https://genie-lab.topogeo.ihu.gr/en/home/) serves teaching and research needs and contributes to the social mission of the Department of Surveying and Geoinformatics Engineering of International Hellenic University, optimizing the connection of Education with the labor market and society as a whole, in the subject of Geomatics Engineering. The cooperative nature of the proposed project raises the need to consistently combine data from different sources, to share them among various end-users belonging to different authorities and to exploit them through different applications extensively. Furthermore, in the long term, the generated data and project results will have to be discoverable and easy to identify, the degree of their suitability will have to be evaluated and the terms of their usage to be explicitly defined. Thus, data involved throughout project activities will certainly conform to metadata EU directives to ensure their compatibility and usability in a Community and transboundary context. GENIE Lab is implementing projects under the above-mentioned specifications. To achieve geospatial data services interoperability and harmonization, projects undertaken by GENIE Lab are aligned with the EU regulation No 1312/2014 1, implementing INSPIRE directive as regards interoperability of spatial data services. All data are served under invocable data services. To conform to data services harmonization requirements, the appropriate open geospatial web services introduced by the Open Geospatial Consortium are adopted. Towards this direction, any type of Web development is exclusively based on open-source software components provided by W3C and OSGeo foundation regarding the final end-user web interface, the initial data preparation, and the creation of the appropriate web services.

Cognitive UX, works in the multi-disciplinary research fields of cybersecurity, human-computer interaction and artificial intelligence aiming to revolutionize the development and integration of human-centered cybersecurity systems. The goal is to create a working environment rich in opportunities for product impact. To do so, our activities are highly driven by basic research and fundamental applied research.