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"University of Piraeus"
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Piraeus University (P.P.I.) is a Piraeus-based High Educational Foundation, at the intersection of Karaoli & Dimitrios and Deligiorgis Streets and treats the cognitive scientific objects of Economics, Business Administration, Shipping, Industry and Tourism. It covers a wide range of cognitive objects, statistics and insurance science, financial and banking administration, IT and digital systems, international and European studies, operating at undergraduate, postgraduate, doctoral and postdoctoral level and while promoting research.
Historical data
The foundation's starting point is the establishment of the School of Industrial Studies, in 1938, following the initiative of the Association of Greek Industrialists and Crafts and the Association of Anonymous Companies of Greece. The School's home office was a SEV hall on Bucharest Street. In 1941, the seminar was moved to the area of America Square.
In 1945 she was renamed the Higher School of Industrial Studies and in 1958, alongside the transfer of her seat from Athens to Piraeus she was renamed the Piraeus High Industrial School (A.B.S.P.) with a four-year education and a degree equivalent to the other AEIs. In Piraeus, the School settled in the Petropoulos building, a former clinic at the confluence of Alkiviados Streets, Karaoli - Dimitrios and Praxitelos. The School remained NPT until 1966.
From the academic year 1971-1972 the studies were divided from the second year into Economics and Business Organization and Administration while the academic year 1977-1978 operated the Department of Statistics and Insurance Science. In 1989 he relocated to the building on the streets of Deligiorgis, Karaoli-Dimitrio, Theatre and Tsamadou. In June 1989 he was renamed the University of Piraeus (P.A.I.) along with the addition of three more departments: Financial and Banking Management, Maritime Studies and Technology and Production Systems. In 1992-1993 the operation of the IT Department begins. In 1999 the Department of Technology Education begins operation which in 2002 is renamed the Department of Teaching Technology and Digital Systems and later, in 2009, in a Department of Digital Systems. In 2002 the Department of Technology and Production Systems is renamed the Department of Industrial Administration and Technology. In 2000 the Department of International and European Studies also started operating, and as early as 2017-2018 the Department of Tourism began operating.
Today Piraeus University has ten undergraduate courses, 38 graduate specialization programs and 64 research laboratories. It is regarded as one of the most modern and reliable University Institutions in Greece with recognized professors.
Emblem
The emblem of the foundation depicts Poseidon, one of the main Olympian gods, the supreme god of the waters, (ports, rivers, springs) and by extension of the sea, the tri