Ethics Issues

Ethics Committee

The Ethics Committee of the University of Thessaly was reestablished by decision 10/26-9-23 of the Assembly of the Senate and according to article 217 of Law 4957/2022

The Ethics Committee is mainly responsible for:

• Preparing the “Code of Ethical Conduct and Good Practice” on all ethics related issues, academic, administrative and research, approved by the Senate of the University of Thessaly and incorporated in the Internal Regulation of the Institution,

• Ensuring the compliance and implementation of the Code of Conduct for all parts of the members of the academic community and ascertaining infringements of the Code of Ethics

• Redacting an annual report on compliance and implementation or proposal for amendment of the Code of Ethics, which is submitted to the Rector and communicated to the Senate of the Institution for consideration, in the beginning of each academic year.

• Examining ex-officio or after receiving a written complaint by students, members of the Teaching and Research Staff (Δ.Ε.Π.), members of the Specialized Teaching Staff (Ε.Ε.Π.), Laboratory Teaching Staff (Ε.ΔΙ.Π.), Specialized Technical Laboratory Staff (Ε.Τ.Ε.Π.), all categories of teaching and research staff (including adjunct staff), and administrative and technical staff on issues within its remit, in order to ascertain any infringement of the Code of Ethics or investigates relevant incidents by order of the Rector. If any infringement of the Code of Ethics or any disciplinary offense is findings to the Rector, in order for the Rector to assess the incident and take legal action.

The Internal Regulations of the University of Thessaly regulate any other issue related to the constitution and operation of the Ethics Committee.   

Members of the Ethics Committee

Chairman:

Ioannis Stefanidis        Professor of the Department of Medicine of the School of Health  Sciences, Vice Rector for Research and Innovation

Members:

Eleni Andreou              Professor of the Department of Primary Education of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences

Christina Karatzaferi   Professor of the Department of Physical Education and Sport Science of the School of Physical Education, Sport Science and Dietetics

Georgios Fthenakis     Professor of the Department of Veterinary Medicine of the School of  Health Sciences

Marios Haintarlis         Associate Professor of the Department of Urban Planning and Regional  Development Engineering of the School of Engineering

Secretary of the Committee

Katerina Satira             Administrative Staff

The Committee’s scope includes:

• All Ethics related issues contained in the approved Code of Ethical Conduct and Good Practice, voted and approved by the Senate of the University of Thessaly in the 310^th/30-08-2024 meeting.

• All issues included in the code of Ethics and Professional Conduct for Greek Public Sector Employees prepared by the Green Ministry of Internal Affairs in collaboration with the Greek National Transparency Authority and after consultation with the Citizen’s Advocate.

Internal Ethics Committee

Every Department of the University of Thessaly constitutes a 3-member internal Ethics sub-committee, according to decisions made by the Senate in the 6^th/9-10-2018 and 53^rd/23-10-2019 meetings.

Each sub-committee, in every Department, deals with matters of confidentiality, respect of personal data and other  rules of ethics and ethical conduct of theses, dissertations and papers.