The rapid advances in the fields of Data Science, Machine learning, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) and their widespread use in the Life Sciences (biology, biotechnology, medicine) create new challenges but also exciting new career opportunities for dynamic graduates with different backgrounds (computer science, engineering, mathematics, biology, biotechnology, pharmacology, medicine, and so on) who are eager to deepen their understanding in these important and fast developing fields.

The Master’s Program “Data Science and Information Technologies (DSIT)” is by its very nature intensely interdisciplinary. Its objective is to strengthen the skills of its students with an emphasis in Data Science, Big Data, AI, applied mathematics, statistical methods, as well as their applications in Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Biomedical Data Science, and the Life Sciences in general. The Program focuses on subjects related to the management, processing, analysis, and software for massive or complex data, in addition to machine learning and AI technologies, as well as on mathematical models, algorithms, statistical analysis, and image analysis methods for computational and structural biology, bioinformatics, and systems biology, in the era of genomics, proteomics, metabolomics, and other heterogeneous
-omics data used for improving human health. Our graduates are fully equipped with a number of important skills that is allowing them to continue their career in research, typically towards a PhD, to join a wide spectrum of industrial labs and organizations, or even to create their own companies in the aforementioned and other related domains.

The DSIT Program has started in 2018. It is administered by the prestigious Department of Informatics & Telecommunications of the National & Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), in collaboration with the Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens (BRFAA), and the ATHENA Research Center. The courses are taught by Professors and Researchers of the above institutions with experience in the Program’s fields of study, by PhD scientists of other institutions in Greece and abroad, as well as by experienced industry specialists.

The DSIT program awards Masters of Science (M.Sc) degrees in two specializations:

• Big Data and Artificial Intelligence
• Bioinformatics – Biomedical Data Science

Significant developments in telecommunications and computer systems enable telecom operators to provide consumers, through their fixed network, a vast volume of information in the form of voice, data, image and video at high speeds, increasing continuously the offered services improving quality and costs.

Mobile, wireless and satellite communications promise to deliver any form of information (voice, data and image) whenever and wherever needed. Computers are equipped with a growing computational power. The Internet is expanding in an aggressive pace, offering new services and content, changing the way we live, work and entertain ourselves. The Internet knows no national borders, working hours, age or gender. Through the convergence of technology, companies that offer television services expand their operations in digital television, while examining the possibility of providing telecommunications and information services. Conversely, telecommunication organizations are also engaged in providing television services.

The potential offered by technological progress is transforming the industrial market and its key elements. This business activity represents a wide range of transactions and includes horizontal alliances allocating the enterprise danger, matching complementary skills and vertical integration, since the factors in a market segment seek to exploit technological convergence and to expand in higher value sectors or develop scale economies.

New aspects and business opportunities appear with e- commerce. The low cost presence on the Web, allows businesses (and especially SMEs) to expand their activities in the international environment and offer consumers a greater variety of goods and services.

In the meantime, competition is intensified and transported in the international level, while the corresponding resolution of series of problems and the measures that must be taken, are carried out across national borders and international organizations, since it requires the cooperation of the international community. Such examples are the communications security, the authenticity of digital signatures, copyright, illegal content and cryptography. Today there is an urgent need to study the effects of technology on economic, social and legal level and enrich the academic educational courses.

In the past few years, a serious absence of skilled people in regulatory matters, particularly in telecommunications, is to be observed. On the one hand, engineers while preparing their plans or their research, hardly take into consideration the issues of costs, prices, regulatory framework, etc a fact that is due to the lack of the corresponding background. On the other hand, economists, decision makers and legislators are deprived of the background that will enable them to follow the technical developments. Also the composition of economic and technical knowledge is very often absent in administrative executives that undertake roles in the context of designing and developing telecommunication and information systems.

The Departments of Informatics and Telecommunications and Physics, the School of Sciences, the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and the Electrical Engineering and Technology of Computers and Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering of the Polytechnic School of the University of Patras will organize and operate from the academic year 2019-2020 the Postgraduate Postgraduate Program entitled “SPACE TECHNOLOGIES, APPLICATIONS AND SERVICES” (Space Technologies, Applications and SeRvices – STAR)”.

The establishment and approval of “STAR” are set out in FEK Β’ 1437, 24 April 2019.

The secretarial and administrative support of the Program is undertaken by the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications of the University of Athens.

The sector of space technologies, applications and services has made significant progress in recent years both within the European Union and globally. In Europe in particular, Galileo (for navigation) and Copernicus (for observation of the earth) space programs combined with the new generation of Sentinel satellites have created a new frame of reference offering major opportunities for research, creation, innovation and development of new technologies , applications and services to both the public and the private sector. This framework is further enhanced by the European Union Space Policy (EUSP) and the European Space Agency (ESA) and their jointly supported actions, such as the Horizon Europe. In Greece, space science has in recent years shown considerable growth with a significant number of public and private sector players to demonstrate significant research, industrial and commercial activities related to space technologies, applications and services. The Hellenic Space Center (HSC) is shaping a new reality as it is expected that increased priority will be given to space technology research and development as well as space applications and services, aiming among other things to strengthen the national economy, to shield defense, transport safety, modernization of shipping, strengthening of the national micro-credit program, aeronautical monitoring and surveillance, monitoring of the environment (eg earthquakes, floods, forestry, floods, floods, floods, floods, floods, floods, floods, floods, floods, floods, fires) to protect citizens, modernize public administration, and provide services to society as a whole. In this context, business and academia in the field will be supported, and cooperation with the European Union and the ESA will be stepped up with a view to exploiting the available funds, geo-returns and space programs that are being developed.

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Το Διιδρυματικό Πρόγραμμα Μεταπτυχιακών Σπουδών (ΔΠΜΣ) Γλωσσική Τεχνολογία έχει ως αντικείμενο το διεπιστημονικό πεδίο της Γλωσσικής Τεχνολογίας όπου συνδυάζονται οι υπολογιστικές τεχνικές της Πληροφορικής με τη Γλωσσολογία.

Σκοπός του ΔΠΜΣ είναι:

η εκπαίδευση και διαμόρφωση επιστημόνων – ερευνητών σε θέματα σχεδιασμού και ανάπτυξης αλγορίθμων και πόρων έτσι ώστε να συνεισφέρουν στην προώθηση της έρευνας και της τεχνολογίας στο πεδίο της Γλωσσικής Τεχνολογίας,
η περαιτέρω προαγωγή της γνώσης, η ανάπτυξη της έρευνας, καθώς και η ικανοποίηση των εκπαιδευτικών, ερευνητικών, κοινωνικών, πολιτιστικών και αναπτυξιακών αναγκών της χώρας που σχετίζονται με την παρουσία της Ελληνικής γλώσσας στη σύγχρονη τεχνολογική εποχή και με στην βιομηχανία με αντικείμενο την Γλωσσική Τεχνολογία.
Το ΔΠΜΣ απονέμει Δίπλωμα Μεταπτυχιακών Σπουδών (ΔΜΣ) στη «Γλωσσική Τεχνολογία» (Μ.Sc. in Language Technology). Οι τίτλοι ΔΜΣ απονέμονται από το Τμήμα Πληροφορικής και Τηλεπικοινωνιών του Εθνικού και Καποδιστριακού Πανεπιστημίου Αθηνών με αναφορά του συνεργαζόμενου Iνστιτούτου Επεξεργασίας του Λόγου.

Οι απόφοιτοι του ΔΜΠΣ Γλωσσική Τεχνολογία αποκτούν διαθεματική αντίληψη και δεξιότητες για την συνθετική προσέγγιση των μαθηματικών και της πληροφορικής από τη μια και των επιστημών της γλώσσας από την άλλη.

Μέσα από την συνθετική προσέγγιση αναδεικνύονται οι δυνατότητες της Πληροφορικής, η οποία πλέον λειτουργεί ως επιστήμη που εξυπηρετεί όλες τις άλλες. Ταυτόχρονα γίνεται εμφανές το εύρος των επιστημών της γλώσσας, των οποίων τα αναλυτικά εργαλεία και οι δυνατότητες υποστήριξης βιομηχανικών εφαρμογών αγγίζουν την καθημερινότητα του πολίτη συνεισφέροντας καθοριστικά στην κάλυψη των σύγχρονων αναγκών του.

Το ΔΠΜΣ έχει σχεδιαστεί για να αποδίδει επιστήμονες με ειδικές δεξιότητες στους τομείς των Μεγάλων Δεδομένων και της Τεχνητής Νοημοσύνης:

Στην Επιστήμη των Δεδομένων (Data Science), με ειδίκευση στην ανάλυση γλωσσικών δεδομένων, ενός από τους κατεξοχήν τύπους Μεγάλων Δεδομένων.
Στη Τεχνητή Νοημοσύνη, με ειδίκευση στην επεξεργασία του φωνούμενου λόγου, περιοχή με τεράστιες σημερινές και μελλοντικές δυνατότητες σε όλες τις εφαρμογές επικοινωνίας ανθρώπου-μηχανής.
Στη Τεχνητή Νοημοσύνη, με ειδίκευση στην επεξεργασία της φυσικής γλώσσας (ανάπτυξη πόρων και λογισμικού) με στόχο εφαρμογές για περίπου κάθε δραστηριότητ
Πρόκειται για επιστήμονες που έχουν την δυνατότητα να:

υποστηρίξουν σημερινές και μελλοντικές ανάγκες τοπικής προσαρμογής (localization) λογισμικών,
εργαστούν πιο ανεξάρτητα στην έρευνα και τις εφαρμογές λόγω της διαθεματικής τους παιδείας,
να λειτουργήσουν συνθετικά σε διεπιστημονικές ομάδες.
Οι απόφοιτοι του ΔΠΜΣ Γλωσσική Τεχνολογία έχουν σημαντικές επαγγελματικές ευκαιρίες και προοπτικές εξέλιξης στην Ελλάδα και το εξωτερικό, τόσο στον ακαδημαϊκό χώρο (Πανεπιστήμια και Ερευνητικά Κέντρα), όσο και σε ένα ευρύ φάσμα εταιρειών, στην εκπαίδευση και σε οργανισμούς του δημόσιου τομέα.

Erasmus Mundus Joint Master degrees programme SMARTNET is a collaborative two-year (120 ECTs) joint master degree programme with the goal to provide training in the inter-disciplinary fields of photonic and 5G wireless technologies for data communication, sensing and big data processing. It will be accomplished by leading European Universities with distinctive and complementary academic qualities and strong educational and research traditions, namely:
Aston University (Birmingham, UK), Aston, Coordinator (Areas of expertise: wireless and optical communications network systems, optical sensing)
IP Paris (France), IP Paris, its member institution Télécom SudParis. TSP (Évry, France), and Télécom Paris, TP (Areas of expertise: physical layer of telecom and sensing networks, electromagnetic, nano-photonics, antennas design, microwave technology)
University of Athens (Athens, Greece, UoA) (Areas of expertise: digital signal processing, machine learning, Big data management systems, the security of networks)
The programme complies with the ERASMUS mobility rules. Incoming students will start from any of the three institutions where they will spend the first two semesters of their studies and receive the core part of their training. The third semester will be carried out in a different institution and will include specialization courses that enhance the interdisciplinary of the offered degree. The fourth semester will be devoted to an independent project that will be reported in the Master’s thesis. Students will carry out their MSc project in close collaboration with industrial partners.

The Department of History and Philosophy of Science and the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications of the School of Science, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, organize and offer the Interdepartmental Program of Graduate Studies in ‘Science, Technology, Society—Science and Technology Studies’. The purpose of the Program is to train graduates who could analyze, interpret, intervene and make recommendations on issues of relevance to science, technology and medicine, based on interdisciplinary perspectives from the human and the social sciences.

Program graduates will be especially prepared to contribute critically to issues connected to informatics and telecommunications (e.g. AI, Big Data, Robotics-Automation, the Internet of Things), the pursuit of environmental sustainability (e.g. through appropriate energy and transportation technologies), biology, medicine, biotechnology and biomedicine (e.g. from gene editing, stem cells and biobanking to the study of pandemics). They will be able to identify the best options and make recommendations regarding economic and social policies (e.g. concerning inequality, work, social rights, gender, disability), applied ethics (e.g. ethics of science, technology and medicine, business ethics), innovation, research and development, regulation and the law, and issues of contemporary importance (e.g. science, technology and borders/migration).

The Program admits a maximum of twenty (20) students per year from all fields, holders of degree from cycle A studies from Greek universities or from equivalent foreign institutions. To graduate, they have to successfully complete ten (10) courses or seven (7) courses and a thesis. Time limits for the completion of the program: minimum of two (2) semesters, maximum of four (4). Upon completion, they receive a Diploma from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens plus a Certificate or Diploma from the European Master’s Programme on Society, Science and Technology (ESST). Fees: one thousand (1000) euros (may be waived for up to 30% of the students, based on criteria specified by the relevant Greek legislation).

The two Master Degrees operate with a single regulation, as they are directions within a single Interfaculty Program of Postgraduate Studies (IPPS) with single financial, administrative and secretarial support and a Special Interdisciplinary Committee at the level of the academic administration.

The duration of full-time studies is 3 semesters with a total of 90 credit points (ECTS).

In order to receive the Master’s degree, students have to successfully attend 12 courses, as well as successfully prepare and present a diploma theses or successfully study 15 lessons without the obligation to prepare a diploma theses.

More specifically, in the first semester students must attend and pass the 5 compulsory courses.

In the 2nd semester they have the opportunity to attend and successfully pass 5 elective courses (from the curriculum of each Master’s degree course).

In the 3rd semester they have the opportunity to attend and successfully pass either 5 elective courses (from the curriculum of each Master’s degree course) or 2 elective courses and to prepare a dissertation, equivalent to 3 lessons, i.e. 18 ECTS.

The choice of the diploma thesis can be made from the second semester. For each dissertation, a three-member examination committee is determined and the presentation/examination is made publicly.

All courses are equivalent and correspond to 6 ECTS each.

The attendance / practice of each course is 3 hours per week, including any tutorial and / or laboratory exercises.

The two Master Degrees operate with a single regulation, as they are directions within a single Interfaculty Program of Postgraduate Studies (IPPS) with single financial, administrative and secretarial support and a Special Interdisciplinary Committee at the level of the academic administration.

The duration of full-time studies is 3 semesters with a total of 90 credit points (ECTS).

In order to receive the Master’s degree, students have to successfully attend 12 courses, as well as successfully prepare and present a diploma theses or successfully study 15 lessons without the obligation to prepare a diploma theses.

More specifically, in the first semester students must attend and pass the 5 compulsory courses.

In the 2nd semester they have the opportunity to attend and successfully pass 5 elective courses (from the curriculum of each Master’s degree course).

In the 3rd semester they have the opportunity to attend and successfully pass either 5 elective courses (from the curriculum of each Master’s degree course) or 2 elective courses and to prepare a dissertation, equivalent to 3 lessons, i.e. 18 ECTS.

The choice of the diploma thesis can be made from the second semester. For each dissertation, a three-member examination committee is determined and the presentation/examination is made publicly.

All courses are equivalent and correspond to 6 ECTS each.

The attendance / practice of each course is 3 hours per week, including any tutorial and / or laboratory exercises.