Welcome to the “Spatial Planning and Regional Development Unit" - SPReD.

The SPReD Unit consists an interdepartmental and interdisciplinary platform of cooperation, following educational and scientific standards established both at the European and international level.

The SPRed Unit encourages cooperation among university members from different faculties for the promotion and achievement of joint research and development goals.

The SPRed Unit has already established cooperation with a number of research units and laboratories both at the national and international level in order to profit from the resulting synergies.  

The SPReD Unit has experience on the following areas:

Urban and Regional Planning

Regional Development

Foresight Methodologies

Participatory Modelling

e-Planning

e-Governance

e-Tourism

Information Society

Environment and Energy

Transportation Planning

Airport Planning and Management

Geographic Information Systems

Decision Support Systems 

Project and Plan Evaluation and Monitoring

Risk Management and Spatial Data

Spatial Measurements: Networks and Applications

Content Management and Network Services e.g. e-learning

Optimization and Value Added Applications

Professor Maria Giaoutzi - Founder of the Unit.