T.U. Code: KYK50
ECTS: 10
T.U. Type: Compulsory
Semester offered: First (1st)
Teaching Language: Greek
Aim of the T.U.: This module aims to provide a background of knowledge about the greenhouse environment, the main climate parameters that shape it, how they are measured and the main types of sensors as well as the basic energy and mass balances of the greenhouse and how they can be used in the selection of the appropriate greenhouse environmental control system.
Learning outcomes: Upon successful completion of this module, students will be able to:
Subjects covered:
Prerequisites: There are no prerequisites for this T.U.
Evaluation: Completion of written assignments during the academic semester which constitute a 40 percent of each student’s grade, if a pass is obtained in the final or repetitive examination. Final exam grades constitute a 60 percent of the students’ final course grade.
Teaching Method: Distance learning using the HOU’s e-learning platform and conducting Group Consultative Meetings (tele-GCM).
T.U. Code: KYK51
ECTS: 10
T.U. Type: Compulsory
Semester offered: First (1st)
Teaching Language: Greek
Aim of the T.U.: The content of this course targets on the knowledge of the pests and diseases of vegetable crops cultivated under cover and their impact on the plant growth, survival and production. Acquiring this background will permit pest and diseases diagnosis based on symptoms but mostly will allow development of control strategies in an integrated manner.
Learning outcomes: Upon successful completion of this unit, students will be able to:
Subjects covered:
i.Enemies
ii.Diseases
Prerequisites: There are no prerequisites for this T.U.
Evaluation: Completion of written assignments during the academic semester which constitute a 40 percent of each student’s grade, if a pass is obtained in the final or repetitive examination. Final exam grades constitute a 60 percent of the students’ final course grade.
Teaching Method: Distance learning using the HOU’s e-learning platform and conducting Group Consultative Meetings (tele-GCM).
T.U. Code: KYK52
ECTS: 10
T.U. Type: Compulsory
Semester offered: First (1st)
Teaching Language: Greek
Aim of the T.U.: The module aims to provide a background of knowledge about the current status and perspectives of vegetable production in Greece, the impact of the environmental factors on the productivity and quality of greenhouse vegetable crops and the modern cultivation practices of vegetables grown under low tunnels, greenhouses of nethouses that are compatible with agriculture sustainability and protect the environment and human health.
Learning outcomes: Upon completion and successful examination of the module the postgraduate student will know:
Based on the above background knowledge, the postgraduate student who has successfully completed the module will be able to prepare a technical study for vegetable cultivation, to grow a vegetable as a producer, to provide advice to producers on vegetable cultivation, to work in organic vegetable certification bodies and horticultural integrated production management organizations and to work in research projects related to vegetables.
Subjects covered:
Prerequisites: There are no prerequisites for this T.U.
Evaluation: Completion of written assignments during the academic semester which constitute a 40 percent of each student’s grade, if a pass is obtained in the final or repetitive examination. Final exam grades constitute a 60 percent of the students’ final course grade.
Teaching Method: Distance learning using the HOU’s e-learning platform and conducting Group Consultative Meetings (tele-GCM).
T.U. Code: KYK53
ECTS: 10
T.U. Type: Compulsory
Semester offered: Second (2nd)
Teaching Language: Greek
Aim of the T.U.: The aim of the Module is to provide students with specialized knowledge on the design and equipment of greenhouses and net greenhouses, with particular emphasis on the types and materials of construction of greenhouses and net greenhouses and on the techniques of dimensioning the microclimate control systems of greenhouses and the irrigation network of greenhouses and net greenhouses.
Learning outcomes: Upon successful completion of this module, students will be able to:
Subjects covered:
Prerequisites: There are no prerequisites for this T.U.
Evaluation: Completion of written assignments during the academic semester which constitute a 40 percent of each student’s grade, if a pass is obtained in the final or repetitive examination. Final exam grades constitute a 60 percent of the students’ final course grade.
Teaching Method: Distance learning using the HOU’s e-learning platform and conducting Group Consultative Meetings (tele-GCM).
T.U. Code: KYK54
ECTS: 10
T.U. Type: Compulsory
Semester offered: Second (2nd)
Teaching Language: Greek
Aim of the T.U.: The content of the module “Hydroponic Crops under Cover” is the familiarization of students at a theoretical and practical level with the systems, equipment and substrates for hydroponic cultivations, as well as with the preparation of nutrient solutions. Emphasis is also placed on the irrigation of hydroponic crops, as well as the nutritional needs of the main vegetables and succulent flowers grown hydroponically in the greenhouse.
Learning outcomes: After completing this module, students will be able to:
Subjects covered:
Prerequisites: There are no prerequisites for this T.U.
Evaluation: Completion of written assignments during the academic semester which constitute a 40 percent of each student’s grade, if a pass is obtained in the final or repetitive examination. Final exam grades constitute a 60 percent of the students’ final course grade.
Teaching Method: Distance learning using the HOU’s e-learning platform and conducting Group Consultative Meetings (tele-GCM).
T.U. Code: KYK55
ECTS: 10
T.U. Type: Compulsory
Semester offered: Second (2nd)
Teaching Language: Greek
Aim of the T.U.: The content of this course targets on the knowledge of the structural and functional changes that occur in a cultivated plant in the presence of a biotic or abiotic stress factor in the environment.
Learning outcomes: Upon successful completion of this module, students will be able to:
Subjects covered:
Prerequisites: There are no prerequisites for this T.U.
Evaluation: Completion of written assignments during the academic semester which constitute a 40 percent of each student’s grade, if a pass is obtained in the final or repetitive examination. Final exam grades constitute a 60 percent of the students’ final course grade.
Teaching Method: Distance learning using the HOU’s e-learning platform and conducting Group Consultative Meetings (tele-GCM).
Code TU: KYK56
ECTS: 10
Type of TU: Compulsory
Semester offered: Third (3rd)
Teaching Language: Greek
Aim of the Thematic Unit: The aim of the unit KYK56 is to familiarize the postgraduate students with modern techniques of cultivation of flowering plants in greenhouses and net gardens that aim at the production of fresh flowers, pot plants and propagating material for floriculture and are compatible with a sustainable agriculture that protects the environment.
Learning outcomes: Upon successful completion of this unit, students will be able to know:
Cognitive subjects:
Prerequisites: There are no prerequisites
T.U. Code: KYK57
ECTS: 10
T.U. Type: Compulsory
Semester offered: Third (3rd)
Teaching Language: Greek
Aim of the T.U.: This module aims to provide a background of knowledge about the factors, parameters and methodologies regarding the safe reuse of treated municipal wastewater and biosolids in agriculture.
Learning outcomes: Upon successful completion of this module, students will be able to:
Subjects covered:
Prerequisites: There are no prerequisites for this T.U.
Evaluation: Completion of written assignments during the academic semester which constitute a 40 percent of each student’s grade, if a pass is obtained in the final or repetitive examination. Final exam grades constitute a 60 percent of the students’ final course grade.
Teaching Method: Distance learning using the HOU’s e-learning platform and conducting Group Consultative Meetings (tele-GCM).
Code: KYKPA
ECTS Credits: 10
Type: Compulsory
Semester in which it is offered: Third (3rd)
Language of instruction: Greek
General Description: The Internship includes 15 days of practical training in greenhouses and greenhouses of public institutions (Research Institutes, Universities) and/or in private organized crop enterprises under the supervision and guidance of a supervising professor. The Thematic Union Internship includes the following stages.
1.First phase before the start of the semester:
1st G.C.M : Internship guidance.
During the 15-day internship the students they are called:
2nd G.C.M.: Internship report and guidance for writing the final written assignment.
3.Third phase
Learning outcomes: Upon successful completion of the KYKPA, students will have gained a first insight into their professional field as qualified managers for the field of cover crops and hydroponics and will have understood how the theoretical knowledge gained in the previous units is linked to their practical application.
Prerequisites: There are no prerequisites
Code: KYKDE
ECTS Credits: 30
Type: Compulsory
Semester in which it is offered: Fourth (4th)
Language of instruction: Greek
General Description: The Postgraduate Diploma Thesis will be a scientific paper of a bibliographical nature and/or a research paper and will be an in-depth investigation of a topic as it is currently formulated. The specific topic will be related to the P.D.Th. and a subject area and the student will be given the opportunity to work in depth on a subset of the science that interests him/her the most. A supervisor – advisor will be appointed who will cooperate and advise the student as well as a three-member committee that will evaluate the Thesis. There will be frequent face-to-face meetings or teleconferences between the supervisor and the student until the teaching objectives of the dissertation are fulfilled. The student will undertake the writing of the dissertation ~80-100 pages, and at the end, before the three-member examination committee, in an open seminar, the student will present the P.D.Th. in the form of a lecture. It has a duration of one academic semester.
Diplomas are based on specific data obtained from the experimental act. The content is just as strict in a scientific sense. Postgraduate dissertations often include some practical work by students, who are expected to collect data through experimental activities. For students, the Dissertation is part of a broader research and data collection process.
Indicative topics for research:
Learning outcomes: The learning outcomes expected upon successful completion of the Postgraduate Diploma Thesis are summarized as follows:
For more information regarding the Specifications – Useful Material for writing An MSc Dissertation and submitting it to HOU Repository, please visit the portal http://courses.eap.gr. The General Regulation for the presentation of an MSc Dissertation in postgraduate degree programmes organized on a semi-annual basis is available at https://www.eap.gr/semi-annual-programs/
Prerequisites: The presentation of the Postgraduate Thesis takes place after the successful completion of the Modules of the Program.