Quality Objectives
The Department implements and has scheduled specific actions for the coming academic years to achieve defined strategic quality goals. In summary, the Department’s strategic goals relate to providing high-quality education in the Undergraduate Curriculum (UC), enhancing the professional opportunities of its graduates, promoting research activity and innovation, and strengthening the Department’s outreach.
| STRATEGIC GOAL | QUALITY OBJECTIVES | MEASUREMENT (Indicator) | BASE VALUE (Current Value) | TARGET VALUE | ACTIONS (What must be done to achieve the expected results?) | RESPONSIBILITIES (Who undertakes each action?) | TIMELINE (When?) |
| S1. Improvement of the educational process through the provision of a high-quality, effective curriculum | 1.1 Increase of the student population | D4.17 Annual percentage of newly admitted students relative to the positions proposed by the Department | 19.17% | 40% | A1. Participation in the “Open Doors” school reception action.
A2. Press releases per semester. A3. Monthly (at least) announcements on the Department’s social media. |
Faculty (DEEP) & Laboratory Teaching Staff (EDIP) | 31/12/2026 |
| D4.18-22 Annual percentage of newly admitted students relative to enrolled students | 7.08% | 20% | |||||
| 1.2 Increase of student performance | D4.46-211 Average annual degree grade | 7.19 | 7.50 | A4. Increased use of ICT in teaching and supervisory media.
A5. Uploading additional teaching material to eclass (exercises, examples, and/or videos with short lectures). |
Faculty (DEEP), EDIP & Contract Instructors | 31/12/2026 | |
| 1.3 Reduction of the percentage of teaching assignments given to external parties | D4.49 Annual percentage of instructors from other Departments | 5.88% | 0% | A6. Assignment of courses taught by faculty of other departments to new faculty members of the Department. | Department Assembly (TSE) | 31/12/2026 | |
| D4.50 Annual percentage of external partner instructors | 29.41% | 25% | A7. Assignment of courses taught by external partners to new faculty members of the Department | Department Assembly (TSE) | |||
| 1.4 Student internship (optional) | QP1[1]: Establishment of an optional internship | A8. Assembly meeting and establishment of an optional internship institution in the UC. | Department Assembly (TSE) | 31/12/2026 | |||
| S2. Connection of the UC with industry and productive bodies | 2.1 Connection of students with industry | QP22: Action plan for connecting students with industry | A9. One educational visit per year to an industry or corresponding body. | Faculty (DEEP), EDIP & Laboratory Technical Staff (ETEP) | 31/12/2026 | ||
| S3. Improvement of outreach and internationalization of the UC | 3.1 Increase in the number of foreign students | D4.25-22 Annual percentage of foreign students | 1.23% | 1.5% | A10. Sending informative material to foreign schools and posting on the Department’s social media. | Faculty (DEEP), EDIP & ETEP | 31/12/2026 |
| 3.2 Increase of outgoing students via ERASMUS+ | D4.30-22 Annual percentage of outgoing students with ERASMUS+ out of enrolled students | 0% | 0.5% | A11. Organization of an annual workshop presenting ERASMUS+ | Academic & Administrative ERASMUS+ Coordinator | ||
| 3.3 Increase of outgoing faculty members via ERASMUS+ | D3.18 Annual percentage of outgoing faculty members with ERASMUS+ | 0% | 15% | A12. Approval of faculty travel via ERASMUS+
A13. Creation of new cooperation agreements with foreign universities within the framework of ERASMUS+ partner institutions |
Department Assembly (TSE), Faculty (DEEP), Academic ERASMUS+ Coordinator | 31/12/2026 | |
| S4. Enhancement of research activity | 4.1 Increase in the average total number of papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals per faculty member | D3.64 Average total number of Scopus papers (cumulative over the last 5 years) per faculty member. | 14.5 | 15 | A14. Cooperation with the Innovation Unit, Innovation – Technology Transfer Unit, and Entrepreneurship Center of UTh “One Planet Thessaly” for the dissemination of results and patenting
A15. Utilization of support measures for Faculty members from UTh A16. Utilization of funding for open-access publications (https://scholarly.heal-link.gr/) |
Faculty (DEEP), Department Secretariat | 31/12/2026 |
| 4.2 Increase in participation in competitive European projects | D3.48-211 Annual percentage of European projects (competitive) | 1.39% | 2.78% | A17. Recording mature research ideas and sharing them on social media to find collaborations.
A18. Participation in European Union workshops for submitting proposals to calls/tenders for European projects |
Faculty (DEEP) | ||
| S5. Strengthening comprehensive support services and meeting diverse student needs and diversity | 5.1 Increase in participation in educational processes of students with diversity | SP2[2] Number of student – Academic advisor meetings | 0% | 10% | A19. Establishment of an annual meeting of students with their respective academic advisor | Academic Advisor (Faculty members) | 31/12/2026 |
| S6. Improvement of the TSE infrastructure | 6.1 Increase in exclusive-use classrooms | M3.097 Exclusive-use classrooms | 4 | 5 | A20. Change of space use from office to classroom | Department Assembly (TSE) | 31/12/2026 |
[1] Qualitative Indicator (QP1) – Physical meaning: Establishment of an internship institution in the Department
2 Qualitative Indicator (QP2) – Action plan for connecting students with industry
[2] Special Indicator (SP2) – Percentage of meetings (PM) per number of Academic Advisors (M3.198) -> SP2 = (Number of Meetings / M3.198) * 100
Physical Meaning: Indicates the percentage of meetings held with academic advisors for TSE.