National Technical University of Athens
(NTUA)

The School of Civil Engineering has been recently ranked among the top 40 of the world (QS World University Rankings by Subject, 2019) maintaining a very high standard of academic staff and attracting the best of the country’s students. The Sanitary Engineering Laboratory (SEL) of the Department of Water Resources and Environmental Engineering, has been engaged, since 1981 in extensive research in the field of water and wastewater treatment and reuse, water pollution control, water resources management, water quality & process modelling, drinking water treatment, industrial waste management and environmental impact assessment. The SEL is actively engaged in innovative systems and processes for wastewater purification. The Sanitary Engineering laboratory is accredited by Hellenic Accreditation System (E.SY.D) according to ISO 17025 for the determination of various pollutants (conventional and toxic) in water, wastewater and sludge samples. The SEL has coordinated and participated in several National and EC funded projects, including the Horizon2020 projects HYDROUSA, SMART-Plant, INTCATCH and C-FOOT-CTRL.

LPAD is the oldest laboratory of the School of Chemical Engineering at NTUA, which has systematically contributed in the development of the School, since 1908. The area of expertise of LPAD can be summarized in (a) development of novel, functional food products, including product design, quality and sensory control of the final product, as well as shelf-life determination, (b) experimental and applied study of the physical industrial processes, such as drying methods (air, vacuum, freeze, spray, etc.), extraction methods (microwave, ultrasound, etc.), encapsulation methods (electrospinning/electrospraying, spray drying, extrusion, etc.), etc. applied in various industries (food, cosmetic, packaging, etc.), (c) development of mathematical models describing the physical processes and thermo-physical properties of materials, (d) process scale-up, (e) valorization of food waste and by-products, (f) recovery of functional compounds from various natural sources, such as plants, herbs, algae, etc. (g) life cycle assessment and environmental management for the determination of the economic and environmental impact of several products and processes. The research group has participated in many projects of public entities and businesses, as well as National and European programs. The laboratory is well equipped with a variety of devices and techniques. LPAD personnel consists of 2 Professors, 3 permanent researchers, 4 post-doctoral researchers, 6 PhD candidates, as well as 10 undergraduate students preparing their Diploma research thesis.

The Laboratory of Industrial and Energy Economics (LIEE) from the School of Chemical Engineering of NTUA will be responsible for the exploitation and commercialization strategy for the technological developments that will lead to the successful deployment of the developed products. LIEE is the one of the most active Greek research centres in EU-funded socio-economic research in the context of Framework and HORIZON Programmes. It was founded in the late 1980’s and is now a well-established and active research unit in European and national socioeconomic, policy and strategy research focusing on the study of innovation, research networks, knowledge flows, firm’s dynamic capabilities and resources, industrial sectors, knowledge-intensive entrepreneurship, public procurement, international competitiveness as well as ICTs, new emerging industries, energy and environment. LIEE has used a variety of qualitative (e.g. cases studies, panels of industry experts/academics/policy makers and policy shapers to study specific value chains and innovative processes and business activities) and quantitative techniques (e.g. multivariate statistical analysis, social network analysis etc.) and empirical methods (e.g. large-scale surveys).