UoI University of Ioannina

As the third oldest University in Greece, with a major regional, national and international impact, the University of Ioannina encourages student and staff mobility, international cooperation and multilateral projects that further strengthen its role as a primary academic pole in the South-Balkans.

The academic community of the University of Ioannina is visible both nationally and internationally and develops partnerships either through personal, professional or academic networks, or more formally, through international project applications, calls for tenders or other, more institutional forms of networking. Mobility is encouraged on every level for all members of the academic community, with non-discrimination policies and focus on disadvantaged and under-represented groups.

The University of Ioannina is a research-based Institution with a leading role in research across science, life sciences and medicine. Besides, outstanding research and teaching in classical studies, humanities and pedagogy have contributed to its reputation as an institution pursuing excellence in these fields. Its presence in the international rankings depicts the great number of research projects, the implementation projects and the intervention programmes carried out by the University staff. In particular, high quality research activity covers a wide spectrum of disciplines including information and communication technologies, engineering, science, arts, medicine, biology, new materials, economics studies, environment, philosophy, psychology, history and archaeology, Greek literature, linguistic studies and education and pedagogy.

• Main campus located in one of the largest cities of a European Union Member State with a rich historical heritage
• Culturally diverse student population
• Α safe and friendly environment
• An affordable cost of living
• A diverse landscape of coasts, mountains, rivers, valleys and lakes
• A community which assembles all the ingredients of a successful Greek experience

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Local environment

The region of Epirus is located inside a natural rampart formed by the Pindus mountains; yet, this state of affairs did not prevent it in the past (during at least the last four centuries) from remaining in contact with the great centers of the Balkans and Western Europe, where a very dynamic diaspora excelled in trade and business, as well as in intellectual activity.

Academic life has had a long tradition here, leading naturally to the creation of the University of Ioannina in 1964. Its constant development, still in close contact with the Balkans, particularly neighbouring Albania, helped it reach its current level, ranking first in Greece with regards to the proportion of students relative to the national average, as well as its effective regional impact on education and research. At the same time, the University of Ioannina displays a clear European and international orientation, if one takes into account the context and impact of the majority of its scientific publications. Indicatively, the University of Ioannina is the first EU University to have developed a global way of managing toxic waste.

In addition to its geographical proximity to the sea and the maritime communication networks, recently two major highways, one from the East to the West and another one from the North to the South, have opened up the space of the region of Epirus to new experiences of mobility and crossings, setting up a new form of sustainability, symbolically and literally: Epirus is now one of the main Greek gates to the world.