Uninversity of Athens

The University of Athens is one of the major higher degree public educational institutions in Greece. It consists of five Faculties (Sciences, Health Sciences, Law Economics & Political Sciences, Philosophy, and Theology) which are divided into twenty-nine departments with a total number of over 50.000 students. The University-staff includes 2500 Teaching and Research Staff members and 500 Administrative Staff. The University of Athens is a legal entity of public law. It has full administrative autonomy, but is subject to state supervision by the Ministry of Education, which also provides part of its funding.

The Department of Informatics and Telecommunications belongs to the Faculty of Applied Sciences. Department staff consists of 34 academic staff members and over 100 PhD candidates and research associates. It is divided in three sectors: Computer Science, Computer Engineering and Communications and Signal Processing. The research and development activities within the Department cover a wide spectrum of Information and Communication technologies. The faculty, research staff and students participate a large number of projects of National and International scale, funded by programmes such as RACE, ACTS, TELEMATICS, DELTA, ESPRIT II & III, IST, RISI as well as the Operational Program for Education and Initial Vocational Training funded by the Greek Ministry of Education.

More particularly, the department has a rich and long experience in several topics of Computer Science such as Software Engineering, Databases and Knowledge Bases, Experiment Management Systems, WorkFlow Management Systems, Digital Libraries, User Interfaces, Personalization, Data Warehouses, Data Mining, and Distributed Systems and has participated several relevant research and development projects. Those funded during the last five years include the DILIGENT IP (IST FP6), DIAS (eContent), DELOS Network of Excellence (IST FP6), BRICKS Integrated Project (IST FP6), Health-e-Child , KATOPTRON (under a Greek initiative).

In the context of the DRIVER-II, NKUA, having the DRIVER experience, will give scientific, technological and management support to the project. It will (a) act as the project coordinator ensuring smooth operation of the whole project, (b) enhance and maintain the services provided by DRIVER-II (c) provide support for enhanced publications; and (d) provide support and training to users.

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