At the School of Science and Technology (SST) of the University of Crete, a Short-Term Study Program (STSP) entitled “Applied Artificial Intelligence” has been established and has been in operation since the academic year 2025–2026. The official English title of the program is “Applied Artificial Intelligence”, and its common abbreviation, used in both Greek and English, is AAI, in accordance with Senate Decision No. 27623 of the University of Crete (Government Gazette 6421/Issue B/01-12-2025) and the provisions of Law 4957/2022 (Issue A’ 141).

The objective of this STSP in Applied Artificial Intelligence is to provide focused education with an emphasis on interdisciplinary application, addressing the specific requirements and needs of the scientific fields of the respective academic departments of the School of Science and Technology of the University of Crete. The program employs the rapidly evolving field of Artificial Intelligence as its primary technological vehicle and scientific tool.

The AAI STSP of the School of Science and Technology remains a purely academic instructional program in terms of quality, organization, teaching staff, and mode of delivery. In addition, it incorporates applied Artificial Intelligence techniques that cover a broad range of computational problem-solving, data analytics, pattern recognition, and decision-support methodologies, applied to a wide yet well-defined set of contemporary problems within the domains of Science and Technology.

The AAI STSP of the SST offers students value-added knowledge and skills in the form of certified learning, which, while introductory in nature, is immediately applicable in practice. The program focuses on the applied use of modern Artificial Intelligence methods and tools across heterogeneous scientific fields. This knowledge is valuable regardless of the students’ primary field of study, as it both provides additional expertise and formal certification in a contemporary interdisciplinary domain and constitutes a significant competitive advantage for their subsequent research, professional, and entrepreneurial activities following the completion of their primary degree.

The program awards an official Certificate (Accreditation) in the form of a diploma certifying the successful attendance and completion of the STSP. The certificate is accompanied by an Appendix listing in full the titles and ECTS credits of all program courses successfully completed by the graduate. The Certificate is issued and awarded to students after the successful completion of the program, following a relevant application by the interested parties, irrespective of the timing of their graduation from their home department and the procedure for the award of their primary degree.

Participation Requirements

A prerequisite for participation in the short-term program is that interested students must have successfully completed the required foundational courses of their home department in the categories “Mathematics” and “Programming”, as specified in the table below. Students attend the courses offered by the program during the course of their studies, and upon completion of courses corresponding to 45 ECTS credits, they may apply to the Department Secretariat for the issuance of the certificate.

A) Category of Foundational Courses: “Mathematics”

B) Category of Foundational Courses: “Programming”

Offered Courses

1. The offered courses per Department and their corresponding ECTS credits are listed in the table that follows.
2. Students are entitled to enroll in any of the offered courses regardless of their home Department or the Department offering the course, provided that they meet the program’s foundational knowledge requirements in accordance with Article 9.
3. In cases where a course offered within the program has prerequisite courses specified in the Study Guide of the respective Department, but these prerequisites do not correspond to courses offered by other Departments of the School, the Department or Departments offering the course shall ensure that students from the remaining Departments are given the opportunity to enroll in those prerequisite courses.
4. The Program Study Committee may designate cases of courses that are equivalent to one another but are offered concurrently by different Departments, possibly with minor differences in content and titles. In such cases: (a) enrollment is permitted in only one of these courses, as it is counted only once toward the student’s total credit units; (b) enrollment in such courses must take place in the student’s home Department, provided that the course is offered by that Department in the same semester in which it is declared.
5. If, prior to enrolling in the program, a student has already successfully completed any of the courses offered by the program, these courses are credited and recorded immediately in the student’s record as completed upon the commencement of their participation in the program.
6. Upon a recommendation by the Program Study Committee and following a decision of the Dean’s Office, the following may take place: (a) new courses may be incorporated into the program by Department; (b) existing courses may be replaced with equivalent ones, while preserving the spirit of the program.

Workload, Duration, and Successful Completion

• The program has a total workload of forty-five (45) ECTS credits.
• The duration of the program is defined to cover a period of study of two (2) semesters; however, from a calendar standpoint, there is no obligation to complete it within a specific time frame.
• Successful completion of the program is defined as the successful completion of offered program courses that are credited and cumulatively amount to at least forty-five (45) ECTS credits during the course of undergraduate studies.

Senate Decision – Establishment Government Gazette (ΦΕΚ)