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Industry Liaison

The education activity of AIT is multidimensional. It centers around the areas of Information Networking and Information Technologies and Telecommunications. AIT top-level graduates and experienced alumni are indemondas ICT executives and consultants.

Employers
As well as providing consultancy and information services to students and recent graduates, we also assist the academic community, employers, and professional organizations.
We support employers in coordinating successful recruitment of AIT students and graduates to provide them with opportunities to interact with network professionals and obtain quality internships and full-time positions:

Post a Job or Internship

Reaching AIT students, alumni and new graduates through out the year by posting a job through the AIT Career Office is quite simple:
1. Send the job announcement in English to the Career Officer, Ms Katerina Protonotariou, kpro@ait.edu.gr
2. You will recieve a copy of the message sent to AIT students and graduates within 48 hours
3. CVs report is to be recieved one week after the announcement unless otherwise stated in the message.

Recruit an AIT Graduate

AIT graduates combine academic rigor with practicality and adaptability to the continuously changing technology and business environment.
Employers frequently testify that they value our graduates' in-depth knpwledge of their field, and their ability to:

effectively communicate complex concepts
adapt to international profile
analyze models and frameworks for immediate work application
manage change and deal with uncertainty
thrive under pressure
master team work
adapt innovative solutions
seize opportunities

The AIT Career Office works with national and international organizations. We offer a range of high quality services designed to enable employers to promote their opportunities to our graduates including:

Post Job/Internship Announcements for graduates, and part-time placement advertising for students
AIT Career Days, an on-campus employer annual event including presentations, interviews, and skills workshops

Internships In-Company Projects

Our postgraduate students write technology and management projects and dissertations, covering key management issues. These can be used to solve specific company/organization-based problems and issues. As part of their MSc programs, our students are required to produce research-based technology and or management projects/dissertation. Many of these focus on helping individual organizations to solve a specific problem or issue or develop an opportunity.

A final report of 12,500 - 15,000 words is submitted for assessment by the end of their studies. Students usually conclude this by presenting their findings in a formal presentation.

Consulting on Technology Adaptation

AIT has exceptional flexibility in meeting the organizational needs for technology adaptation and management innovation requirements in terms of consulting due to its unmatched faculty and its continuous stream of educational and research activities.

Please consult with one or more of AIT’s Research Groups to work in partnership with faculty, students, and staff, to leverage strategy and operations through the innovative use of existing and emerging technologies, technology support, and end-user education.

Knowledge Transfer Partnership - in-company support

Our graduates, researchers and alumni, supported by an experienced academic, can be employed on short-and long-term placements to help companies to fill key skills gaps. This knowledge transfer partnership allows companies to draw on AIT’s expertise in supporting a key development project whilst helping able graduates to further their own managerial skills development.

Benefits:

Expert technology innovation skills and knowledge to be applied directly to key areas of your business, leading to product, process and management improvements.
Important long-term investment in your company's future by attracting and developing talented graduates. Areas on which previous clients have focused include:
Telecommunications
Information Systems
Innovation Management
IT Management
Technology Adaptation
Business Models
E-commerce
Strategy & Change

The project work is designed to realize your commercial objectives and is jointly supervised by in-company staff and your academic advisor.
The size of the KTP package will depend upon whether you choose a one, two, or three-year KTP. A typical two-year KTP for an SME (organization employing fewer than 250 people) would total €55,000.

A graduate annual salary (up to € 20,000)
Personal and technical training
Equipment (such as a personal computer)
Travel
Academic input

Training Needs Analysis

Many organizations know they need some ICT and or management development but are not sure in which direction to proceed. Our Training Needs Analysis Programs, typically four days in length, use in-house consultancy skills to work with you to develop an understanding of your requirements. Training Needs Analysis require feedback loops along the way, as initial assumptions and objectives are challenged or changed for effective training.

Seven typical stages in a Training Needs Analysis are:

1. Project Area Determination
2. Levels of Analysis
3. Evaluation Criteria
4. Research Methodology
5. Pre-Training Analysis
6. Evaluation –Implementation
7. Briefing

Conference Hosting

Please visit our Facilities or download Facilities brochure

Sponsorship Opportunities

Sponsorship of AIT’s numerous Executive Education Programs, co-organized with Harvard or other international and Greek institutions, offer specific advantages to your organization, its CSR strategy, and your staff.

Please download the Executive Training Sponsors to learn more about specific sponsorship benefits which match your organization’s needs and goals.

For additional information on Executive Education sponsorship opportunities, please contact:
Mrs. Maro Palaiologou-Michaelides
Director of Communications
T: +30 210 6682723
mpal [ a_t ] ait.edu.gr

Professional's Views

“This has been the best negotiation seminar I have attended in Greece and abroad. I liked the innovative learning techniques - practice rather than theories.”

Vivian Tsamadou (2007), Senior Manager, Marketing & Communications, PriceWaterhouseCoopers B.S.

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MBIT Graduation, March 8, 2010
2010-03-11

On Monday, March 8, 2010, 40 students graduated from AIT ‘s Master in Management of Business, Innovation, and Technology (MBIT) . The graduates are from Armenia, Greece, Jordan, and Romania. The guest speaker at the graduation was Mr. Marios Kyriakou, President and CEO of KPMG Hellas.

Open Day Presentation
2010-03-11

An Open Day presentation took place on Wednesday, March 10, 2010, at the AIT premises.

The AIT Alumni Club
2010-03-02

Is organizing an excursion to Kalavryta

AIT's Professor was elected as Chairman of the IEEE Photonics Society Greek Chapter
2010-02-22

Dr. Ioannis Tomkos of AIT was elected as Chairman of the IEEE Photonics Society Greek Chapter

OPEN INVITATION TO AIT RESEARCH SEMINAR, February 26, 2010
2010-02-19

"Detecting Fraud in Online Games of Chance and Lotteries"
by Dr. Ioannis Christou, AIT