LUT Delegation Visits NTUA to Advance Strategic Collaboration

A delegation from LUT University visited the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) on March 31 – April 1, 2026, with the aim of strengthening collaboration in education, research, innovation across key engineering fields and the sharing of best practices.

The LUT delegation consisted of two distinct groups, reflecting complementary strategic priorities:

• LUT School of Energy Systems, and in particular Civil Engineering, which is currently under development and shaping its academic portfolio to incorporate digitalization, infrastructures and resilience in engineering education.
• LUT School of Engineering Science, and in particular Separation Science, focusing on the development of new joint educational collaborations, including double degree programs, capacity building projects and Blended Intensive Programs.

During the two-day visit, meetings and presentations and laboratory visits were held with faculty members from multiple NTUA Schools, which contributed to mapping complementary expertise between the two institutions and defining next steps toward a long-term strategic partnership. The delegations visited the School of Civil Engineering and the School of Chemical Engineering,

The delegation visits at the NTUA School of Civil Engineering, in particular, included discussions that focused on both the key laboratory infrastructure and the new degrees’ curriculum of the under development LUT Department of Civil Engineering. Both Faculties agreed that Civil Engineering education builds the foundations for tomorrow’s sustainable and competitive communities. The advanced expertise and infrastructure of the NTUA Institute for Smart, Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure focuses on the integration of advanced technologies and methodologies to enhance efficiency, effectiveness, sustainability, security and resilience. In addition, the NTUA Integrated Master – Diploma of Civil Engineering ensures that graduates can use a scientific approach to solve global challenges and are equipped with skills and strengths to manage heightened demands on resilient built environment.

The central outcome of the visit was the identification of concrete opportunities for future collaboration: teaching co-organization of BIPs and EULiST courses, laboratory infrastructure collaboration in soil mechanics, educational collaboration in natural hazards, research funding collaboration, early career-researchers mobility.

The LUT delegation consisted of:

• Olli Pyrhönen, Dean of School of Energy Systems, Department of Electrical Engineering
• Jukka Lassila, Prof. of Energy Transition, Department of Electrical Engineering
• Antti Ahola, Assist. Prof. of Steel Structures, Department of Mechanical Engineering
• Aleksi Mankonen, Assoc. Prof., Department of Civil Engineering
• Kirsi Taivalantti, Development Director, Department of Civil Engineering
• Ritva Tuunila, Assoc. , Department of Separation Science
• Maria Mamelkina, Department of Separation Science

The NTUA delegation consisted of:

• School of Civil Engineering: Dean Prof. Eleni Vlachogianni, Prof. Vasiliki Georgiannou, Prof. Christos Makropoulos, Prof. Vasiliki Tsoukala, Assoc. Prof. Achilleas Papadimitriou, Assoc. Prof. Savvas Triantafyllou, Assist. Prof. Michalis Chondros, Assist. Prof. Konstantinos Gkiotsalitis, Asst. Prof. Pavlos Thanopoulos,
• School of Chemical Engineering: Dean Prof. Glykeria Kakali, Prof. Andreas Boudouvis, Prof. Costas Charitidis, Prof. Evangelia Pavlatou, Prof. Petroula Tarantili, Prof. Epaminondas Voutsas, Prof. Matina Vouyiouka, Assist. Prof. Kyriakos Lampropoulos, Assist. Prof. Thanos Papaderakis, Assist. Prof. Stergios Vakalis, Assist. Prof. Anestis Vlysidis
• Other NTUA Schools: Prof. Nikos Hatziargyriou, Prof. Irene Koronaki, Prof. Maria Menegaki, Assist. Prof. Georgios Chatzistelios
• EULiST NTUA: Emer. Katerina Adam, Prof. Sotiris Karellas, Antonia Lampropoulou, Dr. Jenny Grigoropoulou, Klairi Tambaki, Melina Giannakopoulou.

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