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Welcome to the Technological Educational Institute of Crete. Our Institute, one of the 36 Higher Education Institutes of Greece, offers quality undergraduate and postgraduate studies in Informatics, Engineering, Health, Agriculture and Food, Economics and Management, Environment. The TEI of Crete is continually being ranked at the top of its peers' list, while it has received wide recognition for its direct contribution to the development of both Crete and Greece. The TEI of Crete studies are exceptionally high standards, as proved by the External Evaluations carried out by the Hellenic Quality Assurance and Accreditation Agency. The teaching and research qualifications and the consistency of the staff, the modern Study Programmes, the connection to the trade and social bodies, and the way we supervise and support our graduates guarantee a complete education providing our graduates with the appropriate guidelines so that they follow the correct profession or continue with further studies, dependent on their aptitudes. Our several collaborations with numerous Greek and more than 120 European Higher Education Institutes contribute drastically to the provided studies' internationalization. Our students are encouraged to travel to other countries to complete part of their studies. Those who study at our Institute also contact international students and are often being taught by European professors. The Department has received awards for its international relations in Europe and, of course, in Greece. At the TEI of Crete, the Administration and the staff work tirelessly, always focusing on our institutional goals about quality education, excellence, real education, and our ca. 15.000 active students' broader interest. We continue to transfer our students' main principles, transparency in making and implementing our decisions, equality, and respect. We encourage the freeway of thinking and the expression of new ideas, self-motivation, and cooperation: we seek to create complete Scientists – Citizens. Our economic efficiency works as a guarantee for the State to keep financing us. Apart from that, the TEI of Crete, through the numerous educational, research, and development projects that it carries out, ensures receiving extra funds to support the studies and our students, equivalent to many years of state funding. The candidates and their parents shall see a full description of our undergraduate and postgraduate studies, together with the possibilities to support our young students during their studies and everyday life at the Institute. Our current students can provide all the necessary information concerning the classes, the studies, the contact with the professors, the Student Care Office, the exchange programs with universities abroad, the chances of working at the Institute and at trade and industry bodies, essential links for the life and the entertainment in the cities, where the departments are located, etc. The new scientists shall explore the chances of being hired by the TEI of Crete for teaching or participating in research or development projects. Our possible research colleagues have instant access to our research accomplishments, our scientists' experience, to current programs, to our immediate goals. The private and public sector bodies may contact specialized scientists for scientific and technical support and seek suitable graduates for work. The candidates supplying us with the necessary services and goods shall find anything they seek in transparency and equality. Citizens from the general public can be informed of our scientific and social work and our cultural activities. The TEI of Crete was established in 1983, aiming at offering technological education to students in Greece. Initially, the following Schools were established: Technological Applications, located in Heraklion with a branch in Chania Management and Economics, located in Heraklion Health and Welfare Services, located in Heraklion and Agricultural Technology, located in Heraklion, Which offered twelve (12) Study Programmes, supported till 2013 by the Department of Sciences of the School of Technological Applications and the Centre of Foreign Languages and Physical Education. Since June 2013, according to the Presidential Decree No 104 (Official Government Gazette 137, 5-7-2013, volume 1) under the new Law 4009/2011 (Official Government Gazette 195, 6-9-2011, volume 1), the TEI of Crete has the following Schools: School of Management and Economics, located in Heraklion School of Health and Welfare Services, located in Heraklion School of Applied Sciences, located in Chania School of Agricultural and Food Technology, located in Sitia School of Technological Applications, located in Heraklion View full university