Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
(http://www.cmu.edu/, http://www.ini.cmu.edu/)

In partnership with Carnegie Mellon University’s Information Networking Institute (INI), AIT offers a Master of Science in Information Networking (MSIN), which is now a paragon for international education within Carnegie Mellon and around the world. INI and AIT have each invested significant resources to create the Athens MSIN program, which combines local and distance education to train students in cutting edge technologies. The INI also offers executive education courses for chief information officers on its Athens campus.
In the summer of 2002, 23 students graduated from the MSIN program. In 2003, 30 new students joined the program from India, Bulgaria, Romania, Lebanon, the Ukraine, the United States, and Greece. The class of 2005 included 26 students who represented seven countries and the same breadth in diversity as their predecessors. The MSIN class of 2006 was represented by an even greater diversity of countries.
The degree is awarded to the graduates of the MSIN in Athens directly from the CMU-INI. The MSIN degree from Carnegie Mellon is fully accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education (MSCHE). The graduating ceremony takes place in Athens and is organized by the CMU-INI following the traditions of Pittsburgh’s ceremony.

Carnegie Mellon CyLab Athens Executive Education
(http://www.cylab.cmu.edu/)

Under the designation Carnegie Mellon CyLab Athens, Carnegie Mellon and AIT have recently expanded their collaboration into executive education and research.

Carnegie Mellon CyLab Athens will offer a new Chief Information Officer executive program, “Leading and Building a Secure Enterprise,” at AIT. This four-day training program is designed to teach participants the leadership, management, and analytical skills critical for reducing organizational risk and improving information security across an enterprise. The program will take place in Athens with faculty from both Carnegie Mellon CyLab and AIT. Topics to be covered include: An Overview of the Future Challenges to Information Security; Risk Management and Business Continuity Planning; Law, Investigation, Ethics and Privacy; and Key Technologies and Emerging Trends

Aalborg University, Center for TeleInFrastruktur (CTIF),
Aalborg, Denmark
(http://ctif.aau.dk/)

A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Athens Information Technology (AIT) and Aalborg University, Denmark, was signed on June 13, 2007, at AIT’s premises by AIT’s Dean Prof. Christos Halkias; AIT’s Executive Director Mr. Petros Kokkalis; and the Director of the CTiF Prof. Ramjee Prasad. The MoU concerns the development of collaborative research and educational initiatives between AIT and the Center for TeleInFrastruktur (CTiF), which operates within Aalborg University.

These common initiatives will target leading edge research, high quality postgraduate education, as well as development of doctoral theses in the fields of information technology and telecommunications and will include the exchange of students, research and faculty, the delivery of common courses, as well as the collaboration in research projects. Selected AIT graduates will be given the opportunity to join CTIF either as researchers or PhD students of Aalborg University. Longer term plans of the AIT-Aalborg collaboration include the development of common educational programs.

Aalborg University is among the most prominent universities worldwide in the areas of telecommunications and information technology and the CTiF constitutes one of the most recognized research centers in wireless communications. The CTiF plays a leading role in large scale research projects, as well as direct research collaborations with major industrial players in wireless communications (including SIEMENS, NOKIA, ERICSSON, SAMSUNG, SONY). The CTiF has already expanded its research collaborations to other countries, the most recent examples being in Italy (University of Rome) and India.

John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Boston , Massachussetts, USA
(http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/)

A series of executive programs, developed by Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and co-organized by the Kokkalis Foundation, address the themes of negotiation, conflict management skills, leadership, strategic and technology management, the growing need to deepen and consolidate political and economic reforms, reinventing traditional approaches to governance and promotion of communication in Southeast Europe and Eastern Mediterranean. Senior executives, senior government representatives, elected officials, policymakers, leaders in the private sector and their non-profit/NGO sector counterparts benefit from these programs. Upon completion, participants are awarded a certificate from Harvard University and become members of the Kokkalis Leadership Network (KLN) and the alumni association of the Kokkalis Program at Harvard University. KLN alumni are continually updated on and informed of Kennedy School of Government and Kokkalis Program initiatives such as educational refreshers, symposia and special events.

UNIVERSITY / RESEARCH INSTITUTES
TOP 20 COLLABORATORS

French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control, (INRIA), established in Domaine de Voluceau – Rocquencourt – 78153 LE CHESNAY cedex – France.
CREATE-NET (Center for Research and Communication Experimentation for Networked Communities) established in Via Solteri 38, 38100 Trento – Italy.
Groupe des Ecoles des Telecommunications, established in 46, Rue Barrault, 75634 Paris 13 – France.
Research and Academic Computer Technology Institute, established in N. Kazantzaki, campus of Rio Patras, 26500 Rio Patras – Greece.
University of Essex, established in Wivenhoe Pak, CO4 3SQ Colchester – U.K.
Universitat Politecnica De Catalunya, established in Jordi Girona 31, 08034 Barcelona – Spain.
Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Angewandten Forschung e.V., established in Hansastraße 27c, 80686 München, Germany.
Universität Karlsruhe (TH), established in Kaiserstraße 12, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany.
Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK), established in via Santa Croce 77, 38100 Trento, Italy.
Technische Universiteit Eindhoven (TUE), established in den Dolech 2, 5612 AZ Eindhoven, Netherlands.
The University Of Southampton established in United Kingdom – University Road, Highfield, SO17 1BJ Southampton – U.K.
Politecnico di Torino, established in Corso Duca Degli Abruzzi 24 , 10129 Torino – Italy.
Instytut Chemii Bioorganicznej Pan W Poznaniu, established in Noskowskiego 12/14 , 61-704 Poznan – Poland.
Technische Universitaet Berlin, established in Strasse des 17. Juni 135, 10623 Berlin – Germany.
Eidgenoessische Technische Hochschule Zuerich, established in Raemmistrasse 101, 8092 Zuerich – Switzerland.
University College Cork – National University of Ireland, established in Western Road, Cork – Ireland.