Quality Assurance Policy

The quality assurance policy of the ChEnvEng School is harmonized with the quality policy of the Technical University of Crete (TUC) and is inextricably linked to the Foundation's strategy.

The School implements a quality assurance policy, which supports the academic character and the orientation of the curriculum, promotes its purpose and objectives, implements its strategic goals and determines the means and ways of achieving them. Furthermore, it applies the indicated quality procedures, with final aim that of its continuous improvement. The particular policy pursues specific objectives, related to the quality assurance of study programs offered by the School.

The Vision / Mission of the School is to offer high quality, scientific know-how and skills to its graduates in both core and discrete axes: the science of (a) Chemical Engineering, and (b) Environmental Engineering, by setting up an interdisciplinary and innovative cradle for education and cutting edge research in Greece.  In particular, the School serves educational, research, and wider social goals, within a framework of principles of scientific ethics, accountability, sustainable development and social cohesion.

The School's Strategic Objectives span over five axes:

1. High-level education, with an emphasis on student-centered learning.

2. High-level Research and Innovation with the ultimate goal of transferring knowledge to state-of-the-art areas.

3. Excellence, through the encouragement, reinforcement and reward of achievements of Faculty members in teaching and research.

4. Outreach, through the promotion of collaborations and the dissemination of the achievements of the School at local, national and international level.

5. Organizational Structure, with main purpose that of administrative efficiency procedures and improvement of the School's infrastructure while giving priority to support the educational process.

The means and ways of achieving the School's strategic goals are:

• Pursue learning outcomes and qualifications according to European and National Higher Education Qualifications Framework.
• Continuous upgrade of the new two-directions Undergraduate Studies Program (USP), implemented by the academic year 2021-2022, through its constant revisions and updates.
• Monitor the performance and achievements of students participating in the USP.
• Continuous monitor of student workload and streamlining of the USP.
• Ensure the level of required qualifications of graduates, taking into account the demand in the labor market at national and international level and constant adaptation to scientific and technological developments.
• Support research in the areas of chemical engineering and environmental engineering and expand their fields of application for the benefit of society.
• Promote and develop educational and research collaborations with Institutions in Greece and abroad.
• Strengthen international relations and transnational cooperation programs that provide for the mobility of students, teaching and administrative staff.
• Attract top scientists from Greece and abroad to claim a faculty position, with an emphasis on reversing the brain drain effect.
• Liaise with the job market in the fields of Chemical and Environmental Engineering.
• Organize and implement activities to promote and communicate achievements of the School locally, nationally and internationally.
• Promote the social profile of the School with an emphasis on participation in social  events actions and in solving social problems.
• Ensure transparency at all levels and from all HR teams.
• Meet the needs of human resources through their participation in the decision-making procedures and in their continuous education.
• Apply academic principles of ethics and non-discrimination at all levels.

The aim of the new Undergraduate Studies Program, which the School implements since the current academic year (2021-2022), is to train scientists engineers with high qualifications, skills and background to serve modern scientific research and production in matters related to the fields of (a) Chemical Engineering and (b) Environmental Engineering. Studies at the School seek to create well-qualified engineers, who will have the capacity for interdisciplinary cooperation, will have understood their responsibility towards society and will be able to respond to contemporary global challenges.

In particular, for the implementation of this policy, the School undertakes to implement quality assurance procedures that will demonstrate:

• the appropriateness of the structure and organization of the curriculum
• the pursuit of learning outcomes and qualifications in accordance with the European and National Framework of Higher Education Qualifications
• the promotion of the quality and effectiveness of the teaching work
• the suitability of the teaching staff's qualifications
• the promotion of the quality and quantity of the research work done by the members of the academic unit
• the ways of connecting teaching with research
• the level of demand for graduates' acquired qualifications in the labor market
• the quality of support services, such as administrative services, libraries and student welfare services
• the annual review and internal evaluation of the quality assurance procedure system of the USP as well as the cooperation of OMEA with the MODIP of the Technical University of Crete

The Quality Assurance Policy closely follows the existing legal and regulatory requirements framework. Its design and implementation is under constant development and revision following the decision of the MO.D.I.P. and the Senate of TUC, whenever this is deemed necessary.