Research Projects
Since its establishment, the Department of Environment has secured and managed tenths of research projects of a total budget exceeding 30 million euros. The current research projects in our Deparment are the following:
| Project Title | Responsible Staff memebr | Funded by | Total Budget |
| Microplastics in Sewage Treatment Plants: occurrence and fate | A. Stasinakis | Operational Programme “Education and Lifelong Learning” (NSRF) – 2014-2020 | 46,000 € |
| Biodiversity Assessment and Management using Acoustic Complexity Indices | I. Matsinos | Operational Programme “Education and Lifelong Learning” (NSRF) – 2014-2020 | 41,500 € |
| Development of constructed wetlands on rooftops for greywater treatment and indoor reuse | M. Fountoulakis | Operational Programme “Education and Lifelong Learning” (NSRF) – 2014-2020 | 50,000 € |
| Contribution to the interdisciplinary assessment of non-indigenous ichthyofauna in the freshwater ecosystems of Greece | O.-I. Kalantzi | Operational Programme “Education and Lifelong Learning” (NSRF) – 2014-2020 | 45,500 € |
| An integrative framework for the study of alien flora | P. Dimitrakopoulos | Operational Programme “Education and Lifelong Learning” (NSRF) – 2014-2020 | 41,500 € |
| Study of acute and chronic physiological and behavioral response of small mammals in stressful stimuli, using non-invasive methods in field sampling conditions | T. Akriotis | Operational Programme “Education and Lifelong Learning” (NSRF) – 2014-2020 | 37,000 € |
| Carbon fluxes across a post-fire chronosequence in Pinus brutia Ten forests. | N. Fyllas | Operational Programme “Education and Lifelong Learning” (NSRF) – 2014-2020 | 41,500 € |
| Effect of the principal aerosol types on solar radiation: Calculations using a detailed spectral radiation transfer model and MERRA-2 aerosol data | C. Matsoukas | Operational Programme “Education and Lifelong Learning” (NSRF) – 2014-2020 | 19,000 € |
| Assessing the High Acoustic and Ecological Value of Urban Quiet Areas | I. Matsinos | YPATIA Scholarship Program – University of the Aegean | 24,000 € |
| Establishment of sustainable infrastructures for the valorization of organic by products and special wastes related to migrants and refugees streams on the example of Lesvos and Chios Islands – SusNisia | D. Lekkas | IZES gGmbH (Germany) | 30,600 € |
| Analysis of packaging materials in Municipal Solid Wastes | T. Lekkas | Private sector | 74,400 € |
| Equipment for a Water and Air Quality University Laboratory and their application to the hot springs of Lesvos, upgrading the services and the radiological protection of personnel and visitors | C. Matsoukas | 2014-2020 Regional Operational Programme “North Aegean” | 306,218 € |
| RI-Food-Aegean – Research infrastructure for the development of novel olive and vine products in North Aegean Prefecture | A. Stasinakis | Operational Programme, North Aegean Prefecture, 2018-2021 | 68,418 € |
| Research infrastructure for the treatment and exploitation of by-products and residues of the agro-food sector for the production of alternative products and energy – Aegean Agrowaste Lab | D. Lekkas | Operational Programme “North Aegean Region | 372,000 € |
| PANhellenic infrastructure for Atmospheric Composition and climatE chAnge (PANACEA) | C. Matsoukas | EPAnEK 2014-2020, Operational Programme “Competitiveness-Entrepreneurship-Innovation” | 55,000 € |
| REACT – Renewable Energy for self-sustAinable island CommuniTies | D. Haralampopoulos | HORIZON 2020 | 375,000 € |
| Foodomics-GR – Research infrastructure for molecular food characterization | A. Stasinakis | Operational Programme “Competitiveness, Entrepreneurship & Innovation” | 89,826 € |
| Support and organisation of actions for waste management in Paxos Island | D. Lekkas | Municipality of Paxos Island | 8,500 € |
| CEST2019 – 16th International Conference on Environmental Science and Technology | D. Lekkas | Conference | 50,000 € |
| Research project on Municipal Solid Waste Managemnt | D. Lekkas | UA reserch unit funding | 8,336 € |
| Assessing the Resilience Capacity of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises to Flash Flooding | Α. Skouloudis | Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (HFRI) | 99,000 € |
| HYDROUSA – Demonstration of water loops with innovative regenerative business models for the Mediterranean region | A. Stasinakis | EU Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme | 193,410.24 € |
| Centre of Sustainable and Circular Bioeconomy (Aegean_BIOECONOMY) | D. Lekkas | EPAnEK 2014-2020, Operational Programme “Competitiveness-Entrepreneurship-Innovation” | 1.374.101,37 |
