Ethics Committee

Ethics Committee

The Ethics Committee of the University of Thessaly was reestablished and operates by decision 89/30-09-2025 of the Administrative Body and according to article 217 of Law 4957/2022, as completed with paragraph e of article 87 of Law 8094/2024.

The Ethics Committee is mainly responsible for:

1. 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,

2. 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

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. Preparing the “Conflicts of Interest Regulation and Incident Response Protocols for Fraud and Corruption” in collaboration with the Student Advocate of article 30, which is approved by decision of the Administrative Body and incorporated in the Internal Regulation of the Institution.

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

1. Stefanidis Ioannis, Professor of the Department of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University of Thessaly, Vice Rector of Research and Lifelong Education of the University of Thessaly, as Chairman.
2. Plagiannakos Vassilios, Professor of the Department of Information Technology with applications in Biomedicine, School of Sciences, University of Thessaly, as member.
3. Karatzaferi Christina, Professor of the Department of Physical Education, Sport Science and Dietetics, University of Thessaly, as member.
4. Fthenakis Georgios, Professor of the Department of Veterinary Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University of Thessaly, as member.
5. Haintarlis Marios, Associate Professor of the Department of Urban Planning and Regional Development Engineering, School of Engineering, University of Thessaly, as member.

Deputy Members (in alphabetical order)

1. Kyriakopoulou Zacharoula, Professor of the Department of Environment, School of Technology, University of Thessaly.
2. Kotsakis Athanasios, Professor of the Department  of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University of Thessaly.
3. Dafopoulos Vassilios, Professor of the Department of Energy Systems, School of Technology, University of Thessaly.
4. Papadopoulos Serafim, Professor of the Department of Ichtyology and Aquatic Environment, School of Agricultural Sciences, University of Thessaly.
5. Tsermentseli Stella, Associate Professor of the Department of Primary Education, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Thessaly.

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.