The goal of International and European Economic studies is to promote the development and transmission of knowledge related to the science of international Finance and International Business Administration, as well as to provide students with the necessary skills by ensuring their excellent training for their future scientific and professional career and development.
Thus the Department:
- Provides specialized knowledge in the theory and research of international administrative and economic science with emphasis on European and international business actions of Greek companies, so that graduates can adequately cover the needs of the labor market in Greece, EU member countries, Balkans, Black Sea and the rest of the world.
- Monitors international developments in the scientific and educational field.
- Develops academic and educational collaborations with higher education institutions of the country and abroad at bilateral, regional and multilateral level utilizing European and international funding programs.
- Attracts foreign professors and students and provides training in a foreign language.
- Co-operates with the productive, commercial enterprises, chambers of commerce, associations and public bodies active in the international market.
- It utilizes modern technologies in education by implementing innovations of electronic teaching and evaluation using specialized software, fully harmonized with the potential of the new economy, aiming at upgrading the knowledge and skills of the graduates of the department. It develops the application of new educational technology through distance learning.
- Conducts basic and applied research. Aims at the development of international postgraduate programs with specialization in the field of international entrepreneurship in collaboration with higher education institutions of the country and abroad.
- Develops the skills of students so as to meet the needs of the market and of international enterprises, making them capable and competitive in national and international environments.
- Aims at the absorption of the graduates of the department from the labor market.
- Participates (by representatives of Faculty members) in international scientific conferences.
- Organizes international scientific conferences.
- Prepares and adapts to changing educational, economic and social conditions in aregional, national and international environment.
- Prepares to ensure and improve the quality of the education provided in the Department, which is certified through international evaluation and certification.
- Organizes international inter-institutional postgraduate programs in collaboration with Greek and foreign universities
1) International inter-institutional management program in Business Administration (Global Master in Business Administration − MBA)» Co-organized for the next academic year in collaboration with the National Economic University of Ternopil (Ukraine),
2) International inter-institutional/interdepartmental postgraduate studies entitled “Management of Education” in collaboration with the University of Western Attica and the Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University,
3) International inter-institutional/interdepartmental postgraduate studies entitled “Petroleum Oil and gas management and transportation − M.Sc. MOGMAT” In collaboration with the State Economic University of Azerbaijan (Baku).
- Organizes the postgraduate studies program in “Tax and business law” which is considered as one of the most attractive postgraduate programs currently present in Greece, offering high level education with professors of recognized value and international recognition with years of experience in teaching, both at undergraduate and postgraduate level.
- The courses of the postgraduate studies program offer not only academic training but an applied technical investigation of the tax, accounting, auditing and legal environment treating not only businesses but individuals as well. In the current phase of economic development, the complexity and the specificity of the legislation, as well as its frequent changes make the need for the application of postgraduate programs that create knowledge, broaden the techniques and discover the solutions needed today not only by today’s accountants, auditors and tax specialists but all professionals involved in accounting-science science,tax, accounting and auditing law.
- Prepares collaborations with universities abroad to create an undergraduate program in English “International Business Activity”.
- Aims at the participation of the professors of the department in the co-supervision of PhD thesis of Greek and foreign doctoral candidates in the framework of bilateral cooperation with HEIS of the country and abroad.
- Cooperates with the productive, commercial enterprises, chambers of commerce, associations and public institutions active in the international market.
- Publishes the international scientific journal entitled “Journal of Global Economy Review” of the Department of “International and European Economic studies” in collaboration with professors of PIM and foreign UNIVERSITIES.
- Complies with the evaluation procedures of the curriculum in accordance with the legislation and the principles of ADIP in addition to respecting evaluations by Faculty members, students, graduates and enterprises, prepared to ensure and improve the education provided in the Department, which is certified through international evaluation and certification.
- Promotes language learning for students. Increasing the attraction of foreign students and professors in the Department and the possibility of teaching and being taught in a foreign language through ERASMUS programs etc.
- Organizes seminars and Summer Schools lectures with the contribution of guests scientists from Greece and abroad.
- Aim of the department and the new curriculum is to contribute in order to create more jobs in commercial, productive, exporting and transnational enterprises operating in the Greek market with Graduates of the Department especially in the region of Western Macedonia. This is why the Department cooperates closely with the productive, commercial enterprises, chambers of commerce, associations and public bodies of Western Macedonia, to develop not only useful postgraduate studies, but two-year studies programs, lifelong learning as well as training seminars, which will complement and expand the curriculum of the Department, in order to meet the needs of the local economy and society and the extroversion of the Greek Economy.