Democritus University of Thrace (D.U.Th.) was founded in 1973 and started to run in the academic year 1974-1975 with the admission of its first students to the Department of Civil Engineering in Xanthi and the Department of Law in Komotini. It was named ‘Democritus’ in honor of the ancient Greek philosopher Democritus, whose origin was from the town of Abdera in the Prefecture of Xanthi. The University is classified among the biggest Greek Universities in terms of the number of its active student population. Geographically dispersed throughout Thrace, with 8 Schools, 20 Departments, and a wide variety of Postgraduate Programs, with a student population that reaches approximately 29,000 (undergraduate, graduate students, and candidate PhD students) and with a research and teaching staff that exceeds 700 people, the university still is the only academic institution in the Administrative Region of East Macedonia & Thrace.
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QLCon was founded in 2005 as a result of the many years of work experience of its executives in the provision of specialized consulting services in the field of organization and certification of businesses. QLCon, in cooperation with the most reliable accredited certification bodies in Greece, has contributed to the certification of more than 300 companies of 50 different activities belonging to the sectors of manufacturing, trade, tourism, and services, including public sector entities.
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The Centre for Research and Technology Hellas was fοunded in March 2000, it is a legal entity governed by private law with non-profit status, supervised by the General Secretariat for Research and Innovation (GSRI) of the Greek Ministry of Development. CERTH suggests one of the most important Research Centers in Greece with a main mission: The promotion of innovative research for the benefit of society. Dedicated to this purpose, CERTH lies at the forefront of basic, applied and technological research to provide solutions to society’s modern challenges.
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Established in 1973, the University of Crete is a young public educational institution sited in a region rich in ancient and modern Mediterranean cultures. Currently around 20,000 undergraduate and graduate students study here through the Schools of Philosophy, Education, Social Sciences, Sciences & Technology, and Medicine, taught by an outward looking academic staff committed to quality in teaching, research, and community partnerships.
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The company Achaiko "Edelweiss" is active dynamic in the field of confectionery, ice cream and bakery since 1974 in Patras. The production of the products is based on the combined use of traditional technical and mechanical equipment of the latest technology in order to achieve the highest possible quality in the produced products but also the creation of new innovative products.
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