Courses

The minimum duration of study in the MSc “Environmental Protection and Sustainable Development” leading to the award of the M.Sc. degree is one full academic year (12 months), which includes two semesters of teaching (winter and spring), while the rest of the time is spent on the postgraduate thesis.

The courses offered by the MSc and their corresponding credit units are shown in the table below:

1^st Semester (ECTS 30) (4 compulsory courses-COR)
	Title	Type	e-learning	ECTS	hours/week
1	PPBVA.1 Environmental Impact Assessment	COR	Potentially, mixed education system up to 20 %, according to Government Gazette 1079/B/28-2-2023	7,0	4
2	PPVA.2 Natural resource and environmental economics	COR		7,0	4
3	PPVA.3 Decision-making and Risk Management	COR		7,0	4
4	PPVA.4 Αcquisition, processing and management of environmental data	COR		9,0
	PPVA.4a Geographical Information Systems (GIS)				2
	PPVA.4b Photogrammetric, remote sensing and geoinformation methods and systems				2
	PPVA.4c Statistical methods and techniques				2
2nd Semester (ECTS 30) (Elective Courses -ELC / Students select 5 of the 11 elective courses)
	Title	Type	e-learning	ECTS	hours/week
5	PPVA.5 Sustainable management of water resources	ELC	Potentially, mixed education system up to 20 %, according to Government Gazette 1079/B/28-2-2023	6,0	3
6	PPVA.6 Protection and restoration of groundwater	ELC		6,0	3
7	PPVA.7 Waste Management	ELC		6,0	3
8	PPVA.8 Sustainability inTransport	ELC		6,0	3
9	PPVA.9 Environmental aspects of spatial planning	ELC		6,0	3
10	PPVA.10 Protection and Management of Coastal Environment	ELC		6,0	3
11	PPVA.11 Air Pollution	ELC		6,0	3
12	PPVA.12 Management of natural hazards	ELC		6,0	3
13	PPVA.13 Environmental geotechnology	ELC		6,0	3
14	PPVA.14 Environmental and energy approach to buildings	ELC		6,0	3
15	PPVA.15 Renewable Energy Sources-Environmental Impacts	ELC		6,0	3
Postgraduate Diploma Thesis (ECTS 15)
	Title	Type	hours	ECTS
1	Postgraduate Diploma Thesis	COR		15

Homogenisation courses

All postgraduate students of the MSc, who do not hold a degree in Civil Engineering from a national or international university, are required to attend, in addition to the postgraduate courses, a group of four special courses, which are called homogenization courses.

The homogenisation courses are the following:

PPVA.Ο1 Elements of environmental chemistry

PPVA.Ο2 Elements of water resources

PPVA.Ο3 Elements of oceanography and coastal mechanics

PPVA.Ο4 Elements of geology and geomechanics

In addition, during the spring semester, graduate students are required to attend the seminar course Introduction to research methodology which, due to its nature, does not correspond to credit hours.

On the you can find the outline of the courses offered, as well as useful information about their teaching.

On the website of the AUTH’s QA you can find the outline of the courses offered, as well as useful information about their teaching.