The Department of Geology at the University of Patras is internationally recognised for the quality and breadth of its research and its academic programme. It is dedicated to provide the highest quality teaching in classroom and field training, as well as research opportunities in Earth Sciences for students at all levels.

The Department, one of the three Geology Departments in Greece, was founded in 1977 in the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Patras, replacing the pre-existing Chair of Geology. Undergraduate students were first admitted in 1978. Since the first 65 undergraduate students’ admission in 1978, 976 BSc, 156 MSc and 112 Ph.D. degrees were granted up to January 31, 2012.

The Department embraces an impressive variety of topics in Earth Sciences and is strongly linked to Greece’s unique geology. Presently, there are twenty three (23) full-time faculty members ranging from lecturer to professor. Support personnel consist of four research associates, a number of instructors and members of administrative and technical staff.

Current enrollment is 846 undergraduate and 150 postgraduate students.

The laboratories for research and teaching, the library, the computing center and the lecture rooms of the Department are housed in the Geology Building. The Seismological Laboratory is hosted at a separate building in the old sector of the University Campus.

The Department of Geology consists of three Sectors

See bellow the full list of the available courses of our undergaduate curriculum:

http://www.geology.upatras.gr/images/pdf/semester/COURSE_SUMMARY_TABLE_2017_18.pdf

Since its establishment, the Department of Geology has received various donations and sponsorships from individuals and organizations. These sponsorships are either financial (amount of money) or material (equipment, sample collections, works of art).

Such sponsorships have strengthen the educational and research efforts of the Department and trigger its further development, especially during the economic austerity we are going through.

Ten educational/academic licenses of the MOVE software (equivalent of £ 1,872,217.38).	2020-2023	Petroleum Experts Ltd. (Petex)	Sotirios Kokkalas  Professor	Laboratory of Structural Geology Department of Geology, University of Patras
Scientific Textbooks	2020	Family of Late Professor of NTUA, I.E. Papageorgaki	Stavros Kalaitzidis,  Assoc. Professor	Library of Section of Earth Materials and Ore Geology Lab
Volumes 1-40 of International Journal Coal Geology	2019	Dr. Harold Smith, University of Sheffield, UK	Stavros Kalaitzidis,  Assoc. Professor	Ore Geology Lab
Supply and installation of video conferencing system	2018		Avraam Zelilidis, Professor	Department's assembly room "A. Panagos"
Ore Geology Textbooks and Frames with Minerals	2018	Family of Late Professor N. Melidonis	Stavros Kalaitzidis,  Assoc. Professor	Classroom 002 and Ore Geology Lab
Providing a bus for student transportation and entry / tour to Kastania Cave	2003-2018		Ioannis Iliopoulos, Assoc. Professor	Students' Fieldtrip (3rd year)
Air conditioning unit 9000 BTU	2018		Stavros Kalaitzidis, Assoc. Professor	Classroom of graduate students of the Sector of Earth Materials (room 015)
Purchase of petrographic microscope (B-1000POL)	2017		Avraam Zelilidis,  Professor	Laboratory of Sedimentology
Photographic artwork entitled "Sconfinamenti" (dimensions 1.20 m x 1.00 m)	2017	Thalassini Douma, (φωτογράφος/φωτορεπόρτερ)	George Papatheodorou,  Professor	Department's assembly room "A. Panagos"
Collection of Greek and foreign language science books and complete series of scientific journals in the field of the Geological Sciences	2017	Dr Leonardos Tiniakos (ex. Director of the Water resources of the Decentralised Administration of Peloponnese, Western Greece and Ionian islands)	George Papatheodorou,  Professor	Departmental Library
Leica DML coal petrographic microscope system with automated stage, integrated Basler camera and PC with Hilgers Fossil software	2016	Mikroskopische Untersuchungen Gisela Bieg (Research company, Germany)	Kimon Christanis,  Professor	Geo-Energy resources Laboratory (room 201)
Collection of Greek and foreign language science books and complete series of scientific journals in the field of the Geological Sciences	2012		Sotirios Kokkalas  Assoc. Professor	Library of the Sector of General Geology, Marine Geology and Geodynamics
Sponsorship - Donation	Year	Sponsor/ Donor	Scientist in charge	Beneficial laboratory