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In the last 33 years, the Geotechnical Division of the School of Civil Engineering at NTUA organizes an international field trip, as part of the Engineering Geology course — an initiative that has now become a cornerstone of our academic tradition.

📍 This year’s highlights:
✔️ 11 days
✔️ 130 fourth-year students
✔️ 21 technical case studies
✔️ 3 countries – 25 cities and villages
✔️ 1 comprehensive educational volume + 1 field guide
✔️ A record-breaking 53 sponsors! 🙌

🔍 Students visited globally significant geotechnical failure sites — such as the Vajont Dam landslide, the Leaning Tower of Pisa, the Malpasset Dam collapse, and subsidence in Venice and many others. These tragic but enlightening cases provided invaluable lessons on the intersection of geoengineering, geology, design oversight and engineering resilience.

💬 Beyond the classroom:
This trip offers an irreplaceable learning opportunity, transforming theoretical knowledge into lived experience — a critical step in shaping capable and conscious Civil Engineers.

🙏 A heartfelt thank you to our 53 sponsors, many of whom are proud NTUA alumni, for making this journey possible. Your support helped us reach a record level of sponsorship and enabled the participation of an unprecedented number of students.

Special thanks to:

• Assoc. Professor Vasilis Marinos, trip organizer
• PhD Candidate Themistoklis Chatziheodosiou, for his invaluable support
• The incredible student organizing committee and all our fellow students for their cooperation and spirit!

👏 Thanks also to the NTUA and the School of Civil Engineering for their continued support and for providing the educational materials that underpin the trip.

✅ The result?
Smiles, excitement, and inspiration that will stay with us forever.

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Call for expression of interest in Doctoral Studies – Period March 2025

Those interested in doctoral studies of the School of Civil Engineering are invited to apply, according to the attached Invitation

The application must be accompanied by the following supporting documents and submitted exclusively electronically to the address: ekponisi_diatrivis@civil.ntua.gr

1. Completed application
2. Detailed curriculum vitae
3. Copy of high school diploma
4. Copy of first degree (Diploma)*
5. Copy of the transcript of records of the first degree*
6. Copy of postgraduate diploma (if any)*
7. Copy of the transcript of records of the postgraduate diploma (if any)*
8. Copies of foreign language diplomas (if any)
9. Two(2) letters of recommendation
10. Copy of identification card or passport
11. Certificate of birth
12. Certificate of Social Insurance Registration Number (if any)
13. Written consent form regarding personal data
14. Written consent form for verification of authenticity of academic qualifications  (not required in case the degrees have been issued by the School of Civil Engineering of NTUA)

* Diplomas and transcript of records from Educational Institutions from abroad must bear the seal of the Hague Convention (APOSTILLE)

For clarifications, you can contact Ms. M. Palli (tel. 210 772 3459, e-mail: metaptihiako@civil.ntua.gr)

The 7-day educational field trip “Pavlos Marinos” took place from February 3-9, 2025, as part of the 2024-2025 academic year of the Joint Postgraduate Program “Design and Construction of Underground Projects,” in which the School of Civil Engineering of NTUA participates. The title of the trip was “Tunnels and Underground Projects in Greece. Geology – Design – Construction.”

During its 25 years of operation, the program has trained almost the entire personnel involved in the design and construction of underground works, supplying highly skilled professionals to design, consulting offices, technical companies, public authorities and research organizations in Greece and abroad.

As part of the curriculum, training includes the unique 7-day educational field trip offering invaluable knowledge and hands-on experience. The field trip is named “Paul Marinos” in honour of the late Professor Emeritus of NTUA, Pavlos G. Marinos who organised and executed this field trip for almost 20 years. The scientific coordinator and leader of the educational field trip is As. Professor Vasilis P. Marinos of our School of Civil Engineering NTUA and President of the International Association for Engineering Geology and the Environmennt (IAEG).

This unforgettable field trip is a highly significant complement to the educational cycle of many courses within the postgraduate programme, providing students with real-life experience to underground works under construction and in operation. These firsthand experiences enhance the assimilation of essential knowledge acquired in the classroom.

Postgraduate students are trained directly at tunnel faces and portals of underground works and tunnels under construction in Peloponnese, Central and Northern Greece. They evaluate a wide range of engineering geological conditions in different environments and the corresponding uncertainties affecting underground works design. They apply their skills in real-world conditions, gain invaluable hands-on experience and give daily presentations on various topics.

Within the framework of the field trip, the following activities are carried out:

• Technical visits to major projects under construction (Mpralou Tunnel, Kleisoura Tunnel, underground works at Hellas Gold mines, the lignite mine of Prosiliou, underground and other projects of the Amphilochia pumping-storage system, Metsovitiko DEI projects, Sitara 1 & 2 tunnels, mining excavations, bridges and the northern section of the central road E65), exploration of a multitude of excavation methods, cross-sectional analyses, temporary support measures and the geotechnical challenges and solutions associated with them.
• A series of on-site classes and field exercises in the natural geoenvironment (~12-15 exercises) (e.g., quantitative characterization, rock mass classifications, preparation of engineering geological sections, simple calculations for estimating settlements and support measures, assessment of failure mechanisms, etc.). The range of geotechnical conditions across different geoenvironments and the associated uncertainties in the design of underground works are analyzed.
• Visits and the gathering of experiences from major underground works in our country, both under construction and in operation (Knimida, Kallidromo, Tempi, Platamon and Egnatia Highway tunnels).
• Students are divided into groups according to the technical aspects of the field trip and present each evening on the underground works they visited the previous day.

For the educational purposes of the field trip, specialized volumes are prepared and distributed to students, containing excerpts from studies, reports and published papers related to the projects being visited.

We would like to thank the companies TERNA S.A., AKTOR S.A., AVAX S.A., Hellas Gold S.A., Aegean Motorways, METE S.A., and OLYMPIA ODOS S.A. for the opportunity to visit their projects, as well as for their significant sponsorships.

Special mention and thanks for their significant help in organizing the field trip are due to the PhD Candidates from the Geotechnical Division, Themistoklis Chatzitheodosiou and Dimitris Pepas.

The scientific coordinator and leader of the educational field trip is As. Professor Vasilis P. Marinos of the School of Civil Engineering NTUA and President of the International Association for Engineering Geology and the Environment (IAEG). The trip was accompanied by Dr. Vivy Yiouta Mitra, from the School of Mining and Metallurgical Engineering.

Thank you banner of 7-day field trip(“Paul Marinos” field trip) for the MSc in Tunnelling Engineering of NTUA for the academic year 2024-2025

New Year Event at the Department of Transportation Planning and Engineering, January 2025

The New Year Event of the Department of Transportation Planning and Engineering took place with great success on Tuesday, January 28^th, 2025, with the participation of more than 80 members of the Department and the School of Civil Engineering.

During the event, the Vice Rector of Finance, Infrastructure and Development, Nikolaos Lagaros and the Dean of the School of Civil Engineering, Eleni Vlachogianni addressed the event and the Director of the DTPE, George Yannis presented the 2024 Annual Report of the educational, research and scientific work of the Department.

Presentation

The Internship aims to strengthen, expand and upgrade the quality of the education of the students of the School of Civil Engineering of the NTUA. It takes place in public and private organizations and companies, dealing with activities that are within the profession of Civil Engineering. In this way, the Internship contributes to a more substantial connection of studies with the market, an element of particular importance for developing future Civil Engineers.

Specifically, the internship helps:

• To consolidate the students’ theoretical knowledge through the application in practice.
• Familiarizing the students with the reality of work and the working environment.
• Recognizing and promoting of the students’ skills
• Promoting a spirit of creative collaboration and teamwork with other disciplines that coexist in the workplace.
• To expand the fields of employment.
• To create a stable and two-way cooperation between the University and the market.
• In shaping professional ethics in students and the professionals of the future
• Enriching the subjects of dissertations.

The Internship is a 9^th semester course, that is implemented in the 10th semester during the months from May to October. The duration of the Internship is 2 months.

The School of Civil Engineering of NTUA (National Technical University of Athens) up to the glaciers of the Alps!

• 11 days
• 130 fourth-year students
• 20 technical subjects
• 2400 km
• 14 cities and villages
• 48 sponsors!

For another year, the Geotechnical Division of the School of Civil Engineering organized the great field trip of Engineering Geology, which has been training students and young engineers around Europe for the past 30 years.

With this field trip, our team visited failures of major civil engineering projects and discussed technical issues in Greece, Italy, and France, which play a crucial role in the education and development of students as real engineers. These issues were analyzed in depth, making the large—and real—scale of the projects apparent, which is as significant as the responsibility that future engineers will bear.

This year, the sponsorship support from companies within and outside our technical field surpassed all previous years, setting a new record! This year, 48 companies contributed, covering over 70% of the total cost of the excursion, thus supporting the massive participation of 130 students!

We extend our heartfelt thanks to our 48 sponsors for their significant support in the educational process.

And of course, we thank our institution, the National Technical University of Athens, and especially our School, for the opportunity to print the excursion booklets, a valuable resource for the students’ library.

The excursion was completed with absolute success and with experiences that will remain indelible in the students’ memories! A hallmark of this year’s excursion was the smiles, the impressed looks at each stop, and the large group hugs, despite the difficulties of the program.

Responsible for this success was Assistant Professor of the School of Civil Engineering Vasilis Marinos, in collaboration with a student committee, the PhD Student Themis Chatzitheodosiou, and the good spirits and interest of the students throughout the excursion.