Applications for the program began Educational Trip 2015, which is being held for the sixth consecutive year since Corallia and the colleges of Greek students of the universities Stanford (Hell.AS), UC Berkeley (Hestia), MIT (HSAMIT), Georgia Tech (GTHS) and for the first time at UC San Diego (HSAUCSD).
Educational Trip gives the opportunity to students and students from its public universities Greeceand for the first year also of Cyprus to visit leading academic institutions worldwide and equip themselves with new ideas and knowledge, which they will be able to utilize and apply in their own academic environment upon their return. The students who will be selected will have the opportunity to visit for a weekteam five leading academic institutions internationally and to attend courses, lectures and seminars, according to their academic interests, to visit cutting-edge technology companies, such as Google, Facebook, etc. as well as research centers in San Francisco, Boston, Atlanta and San Diego.
The Program increases this year 24 entries by 20.
Students and students of Greek and public Cypriot universities attending polytechnic schools, science schools and economics schools have completed their first year of study and are not in the year of their graduation, they have a remarkable course in their studies and have shown interest in the development of the university they are attending and general voluntary and social activity.
Submission of applications ends on January 11 2015 and the trip will take place on March 28 2015. For more information on Educational Trip 2015, visit the program's website www.edutrip.gr.
In the program they have participated to this day over seventy students from different departments and academic institutions. The experiences they received through the Educational Trip and each other cooperation led to significant results contributing to the improvement of the academic reality in our universities. Indicative results that have been achieved with the contribution of the graduates of the program, is the formation of the group Co.Mv.oS, with the participation of students from the largest universities in the country (NTUA, EKPA, OPA, AUTH, University of Patras and the University of Crete), with the aim of student activity, cooperation and the promotion of student initiatives throughout Greece, the organization of Job Fair Athens with the aim of linking the students to the labor market, which was subsequently instituted as an annual event and independent organization attracting over 4.500 visitors so far, organizing a variety of thematic speeches and actions (eg, Patras Game Expo, Team Fair AUTH), as well as the transfer of experiences and know-how to various other organizations throughout Greece (student groups, startups etc.).
