Departmental Assembly

The dominant body of the Department is the Departmental Assembly.

The Department Assembly consists of all the Faculty members and one elected representative of

  • the Special Education Staff
  • the Laboratory Teaching Staff
  • the Special Laboratory Teaching Staff
  • the undergraduate students
  • the graduate students
  • the PhD Candidates

The main responsibilities of the Departmental Assembly are: the supervision of its overall administration, the implementation of the rules and the internal regulations, the determination of the general educational and research policy, as well as the planning and strategy of the course and development of the Department, in the context of the general decisions of the University’s Senate.

The Departmental Assembly, which operates in accordance with the applicable provisions and the Internal Regulations of the University of Thessaly, meets regularly once every month but also when convening needs arise. To process various academic, research and operational issues, the General Assembly may appoint working committees.

Departmental Chairpersonship

The Department Chair convenes the Assembly, prepares the agenda and presides over its activities. The chairperson’s main responsibilities are to ensure the implementation of the Assembly’s decisions and to head the services of the Department. In addition, he or she prepares and approves the Department’s actions, which he or she submits for approval to the Department’s Assembly and forwards it to the Deanery, the Senate and the Board of Administration of the University of Thessaly.

The Department chair is elected for a three-year term by the Faculty Members.

The current Department chairwoman is Professor Maria Paparousi until 31.08.2025.

Departmental committees

  • The Curriculum Committee
  • The Student Affairs’ Committee
  • The ERASMUS Committee
  • The Finance, Material Resources and Digital Services Committee
  • The Internship Committee
  • The Outreach and Publicity Committee
  • The Research Committee
  • The Internal Evaluation Group of the Department

The Secretariat

The mission of the Secretariat is to support the administrative function of the Department. As part of its mission, the Secretariat has the following responsibilities, the execution of which complies with the General Regulation on the Protection of Personal Data:

  • handling the correspondence of the Department
  • implementing the decisions of the Department Assembly
  • maintaining the protocol and records of the Department
  • preparing and keeping the registers and individual files of students in the electronic secretariat application
  • monitoring attendance (registrations, grade announcements, etc.)
  • issuing certificates, diplomas, and degrees to students
  • planning and implementing the protocol for the graduation ceremonies of all degrees awarded by the Department
  • issuing student IDs
  • managing the proposed textbooks in the Evdoxos application
  • timely posting of required announcements on the Department’s website.