University of Ioannina

University of Ioannina
founding	1964 and 1970
Sponsorship	state
place	Ioannina
country	Greece
Rector	Georgios Kapsalis
Students	approx. 22,000
Networks	BAUNAS
Website	www.uoi.gr

University of Ioannina, former monastery

The University of Ioannina (Greek: Πανεπιστήμιο Ιωαννίνων, Panepistimio Ioanninon ) is a state-owned Greek campus university on a modern 850- hectare campus, six kilometers south of the northern Greek city of Ioannina . The Dourouti Monastery from the 18th century is also part of the campus.

Since 2001 the campus has housed the Biomedical Research Institute of the Greek research center FORTH .

The university is a member of the network of Balkan universities (Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Greece, Kosovo, Croatia, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, Turkey, North Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro).

Faculties

• Educational science
• Human sciences
• medicine
• Natural sciences
• Raw materials & corporate governance

Personalities

Professors

• Theofanis Kakridis (1933–2019), classical philologist
• Lila Marangou (* 1938), Classical Archaeologist

Alumni

• Günther Steffen Henrich (* 1938), Byzantinist and Neo-Greekist

Doctores honoris causa

•  Linos G. Benakis (* 1928), philosopher

•  Werner Beierwaltes (1931–2019), philosopher

• Karen Gloy (* 1941), philosopher

See also

• List of universities and colleges in Greece

Web links

Commons : University of Ioannina  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of the University of Ioannina

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Members. In: www.baunas.org. Balkan Universities Association, 2019, accessed September 8, 2019 .  
2. ^ Conference of the Balkan Universities May 2010 in Edirne ( Memento of August 9, 2011 in the Internet Archive )