T.U. Code: KAO50
ECTS Credits: 10
Type of Unit: Compulsory
Semester in which it is offered:First (1st)
Language of instruction: Greek
T.U. Objective – General description:
The T.U. aims to introducestudents to the field of the KAO. It is thus organized into two sub-sections:in the first the theoretical foundations and substance of the KAO are discuKAOd and compared to similar concepts. The second comprises an overview of the basic, classic, and contemporary approaches to the KAO, and aims to introduce students to the relevant scholarly discussions.
Learning Outcomes:
Upon successful completion of KAO50, students will have learned:
Cognitive Objects of the unit:
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.
Prerequisites: There are no prerequisites for this unit.
T.U. Code: KAO51
ECTS Credits: 10
Type of Unit: Compulsory
Semester in which it is offered:First (1st)
Language of instruction: Greek
T.U. Objective – General description:
The objective of this thematic unit is to demonstrate how the various forms of the KAO go beyond strictly earning profit, serving principles that promote addressing social – environmental concerns while concurrently fulfilling needs connected with every phase of the economic cycle. The unit is divided into three sub-sections: forms/types of KAO enterprise, rewards for labor, and commercial exchanges. Teaching also includes examples, to contribute to students’ understanding of the spectrum of KAO ventures.
Learning Outcomes:
Upon successful completion of KAO51, students will have learned:
Cognitive Objects of the unit:
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.
Prerequisites: There are no prerequisites for this unit.
T.U. Code: KAO52
ECTS Credits: 10
Type of Unit: Compulsory
Semester in which it is offered:First (1st)
Language of instruction: Greek
T.U. Objective – General description:
This thematic unit aims to familiarize students with the modern research, theories, and practices of the “commons” as an alternative paradigm for social organization of the economy, administration, political action, culture, and communication.
The “commons” is an umbrella term that denotes a wide variety of different terminologies and approaches, such as: commonsor“common-pool resources”, Ostrom 1990), “commonsbased peer production”, Benkler and NiKAOnbaum 2006)), or simply the“common” (, Hardt and Negri 2012∙ commun, Dardot and Laval 2015). The “commons” are, eKAOntially, a name for the goods and resources owned, produced, administered, and shared collectively by communities.
These common goods assume numerous different forms: communal natural resources (pastures, fishing grounds, forests, irrigation networks), communal means of production utilized by labor co-operatives, open-source digital resources (freeware, Wikipedia ), etc. In all the aforementioned cases, the common denominator is that access to the goods is equal for all members of a given community (these equal terms may differ significantly between communities, leading at times either to the extremes of communal abstention from consuming the goods, and universal free access, with every variation in between). The communities that produce or control a common good manage it through mechanisms of equal participatory co-management by all the members of said community. These mechanisms produce alternative means and systems of production in contrast to the dominant forms of the state (public/state property, bureaucratic administration) and the market (private property, profit-driven economy).
Lessons will center on modern research into the “commons” in their various forms, discussing the extent to which the “commons” offer viable, constructive means of alternative social organization, through the nurturing of values such as: sharing, free cooperation and creation, political participation and social self-organization of citizens, solidarity, community openness and pluralism, ecologically sustainable development or degrowth..
Learning Outcomes:
Upon successful completion of KAO52, students will have learned:
Cognitive Objects of the unit:
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.
Prerequisites: There are no prerequisites for this unit.
T.U. Code: KAO60
ECTS Credits: 10
Type of Unit: Compulsory
Semester in which it is offered:Second (2nd)
Language of instruction: Greek
T.U. Objective – General description:
The thematic unit focuses on the relationship between the KAO, local/community development, and spatial development at all levels. Concurrently, the unit aims to demonstrate the social innovation that KAO enterprises cause as a primary factor in the aforementioned relations. For this reason, the unit is divided into three sub-sections. The first is a critical overview of a series of approaches to development, with emphasis on its spatial aspects. The second discuKAOs the approaches to social innovation. The third examines the interaction between the aforementioned factors and the KAO. Teaching in all three sub-sections includes examples.
Learning Outcomes:
Upon successful completion of KAO60, students will have learned:
Cognitive Objects of the unit:
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.
Prerequisites: There are no prerequisites for this unit.
T.U. Code: KAO61
ECTS Credits: 10
Type of Unit: Compulsory
Semester in which it is offered:Second (2nd)
Language of instruction: Greek
General description of the unit:
The KAO has been discuKAOd publicly by various different actors, often with contrasting political standpoints and practices, such as, for example, the European Commission, national governments from across the political spectrum, and anti-austerity social movements. Why is the KAO such an attractive prospect to representatives of such disparate politics? Is support for the KAO an ideologically neutral position, as the public discussion often suggests? Are there competing reasons and different public policies for the promotion of the KAO? What impact does public policy pertaining to the KAO have? The present unit aims to utilize the experiences other states have gained over the course of the ongoing financial crisis in promoting the KAO, in order to produce graduates capable of contributing to the development and planning of KAO public policies in Greece. The comparative analysis of public policies attempts to deconstruct the perception of ideological neutrality that is often connected with the promotion of the KAO, to denote the differences of experience in particular fields of development and implementation of public policy, and to demonstrate that scholarly disagreements regarding the definition of the field and the terms utilized to describe it (social and solidarity economy, social entrepreneurship) are not mere academic scholasticism, but instead encapsulate different visions and policies.
Learning outcomes:
Upon successful completion of KAO61, students will have learned:
Cognitive Objects of the unit:
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.
Prerequisites: There are no prerequisites for this unit.
T.U. Code: KAO62
ECTS Credits: 10
Type of Unit: Compulsory
Semester in which it is offered:Second (2nd)
Language of instruction: Greek
T.U. Objective – General Description:
The T.U. discuKAOs the KAO from the perspective of the wider social and political environment that birthed it. Concurrently, it aims to study the KAO in relation to both existing power relations and proceKAOs of social change.
For these reasons, the T.U. examines the relations between the KAO and social movements and the state, from both a theoretical and a historical perspective. The common denominator here is the issue of power relations, and KAO bibliography has written extensively on the subject. On the one hand there is the state, as the classic expression of power, which may impose limits for alternative enterprises, support them, or even incorporate them, and on the other we have the social movements, which, similarly to KAO enterprises, challenge the various forms of power and often seek social change.
Learning Outcomes:
Upon successful completion of the thematic unit, students will have learned:
Cognitive Objects of the unit:
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.
Prerequisites: There are no prerequisites for this unit.
T.U. Code: KAO70
ECTS Credits: 10
Type of Unit: Compulsory
Semester in which it is offered:Third (3rd)
Language of instruction: Greek
T.U. Objective – General Description:
The T.U. seeks to provide students with the necessary planning skills and mind-set to identify and evaluate KAO-related business “opportunities”. Students are thus encouraged to familiarize themselves with business planning and analysis through teamwork, by forming teams developing a business idea. Concurrently the T.U. discuKAOs various issues of entrepreneurship and innovation management.
Learning Outcomes:
Upon successful completion of KAO70, students will have learned:
Cognitive Objects of the unit:
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.
Prerequisites: There are no prerequisites for this unit.
T.U. Code: KAO71
ECTS Credits: 10
Type of Unit: Compulsory
Semester in which it is offered:Third (3rd)
Language of instruction: Greek
T.U. Objective – General Description:
The primary components for the sustainable development of KAO enterprises are the composition of the founding members, their internal functions, and their democratic management. On the one hand, given the lack of other forms of capital, relations of trust between the founding members of a team have increased importance. On the other, KAO enterprises must balance various different functional principles and pressures (market competition, state regulation and oversight), while concurrently reinforcing the relations of trust between team members and their wider environment.
The objective of the present unit is three-fold: First, to explain how teams are formed and function. Second, to familiarize students with the plethora of decision-making models, practices, and methods of facilitating internal functioning. Third, to familiarize students with the management principles that apply to KAO enterprises.
Learning Outcomes:
Upon successful completion of KAO71, students will have learned:
Cognitive Objects of the unit:
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.
Prerequisites:There are no prerequisites for this unit.
T.U. Code: KAO72
ECTS Credits: 10
Type of Unit: Compulsory
Semester in which it is offered:Third (3rd)
Language of instruction: Greek
T.U. Objective – General Description:
The objective of the unit is to introduce students to the issues of securing and correctly budgeting funds, in order to further the goals of KAO enterprises. The unit aims, in particular: to discuss methods of financial management with emphasis on capital investment budgeting, together with financial operations and the management of KAO enterprise financing, to introduce students to the financial statements, investment budgeting and analysis, and overall financial management of KAO enterprises, as well as to explain the particularities of the products and services of social finance and financial management of KAO enterprises. Over the course of the unit, the following subjects will also be discuKAOd: cost analysis, evaluation of business plan financial and funding data, analysis of funding requirements depending on the stage of development and nature of the business activity, and the description of alternative means and sources of finance to cover the requirements of social and solidarity economy enterprises. In contrast to the conventional approaches to business and financial instruments, the KAO approach to financial analysis and funding of ventures emphasizes maximizing social impact (as opposed to maximizing profit).
Learning Outcomes:
Upon successful completion of KAO72, students will have learned:
Cognitive Objects of the unit:
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.
Prerequisites: There are no prerequisites for this unit.
T.U. Code: KAODT
ECTS Credits: 30
Type of Unit: Compulsory
Semester in which it is offered: Fourth (4th)
Language of instruction: Greek
Subject:
The subject of the post-graduate diploma thesis must be connected with the Thematic Units and their individual sub-sections. The thesis may be based on primary research or on an original critical review of the existing literature.
The thesis is meant to combine theoretical and applied aspects of the research field of the PSP, and favors case studies on individual Social and Solidarity Economy enterprises.
Prerequisites: Successful completion of the nine (9) total T.U. of the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd semesters.
General Regulations for Postgraduate DiKAOrtation in MSc courses with semester-long thesis.
For more information regarding thesis Specifications – For useful material for the writing of Post-Graduate Diploma Theses and uploading the Thesis to the H.O.U. digital repository, please visit the Digital Education Portal http://courses.eap.gr Curriculum sub-section.