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Hellenic Mediterranean University

The Hellenic Mediterranean University (HMU; Greek: Ελληνικό Μεσογειακό Πανεπιστήμιο; ΕΛΜΕΠΑ) is a public tertiary education institution in Greece, with headquarters in Heraklion, Crete, and branches in Chania, Rethymno, Agios Nikolaos, and Sitia.

The Hellenic Mediterranean University was founded on 25 April 2019. it consists of six Faculties, with more than 12,000 undergraduate and postgraduate students and approximately 400 teaching staff and research staff.

The Hellenic Mediterranean University is a continuation of the dissolved Technological Educational Institute of Crete.

Schools and departments

The departments of this university are for the most part the same as those of the National Technical University of Athens and the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

Research

The Hellenic Mediterranean University conducts applied research with a strong regional focus on agriculture, renewable energy, engineering, and emerging technologies. It operates 28 accredited laboratories and participates in national and EU-funded programmes, including Horizon Europe, Interreg and NextGenerationEU.

Notable projects include:

  • <nowiki></nowiki>Sludge2Energy<nowiki></nowiki> (Interreg NEXT MED), conducted in collaboration with the Department of Agriculture, which develops technologies to convert agricultural and urban sludge into bioenergy and soil improvers, in partnership with institutions in Italy, Egypt, and Cyprus.
  • The Institute of Emerging Technologies (i-EMERGE) hosts the Nanotechnology & Printed Electronics Division (Nano@HMU), which conducts research on graphene-based materials, printable electronics, and advanced energy devices. The group has produced the first autonomous graphene–perovskite photovoltaic system featured in Nature Energy, and works on low-cost perovskite solar cells, smart implants, and next-generation fuel cells. HMU also co-runs an inter-institutional MSc in Nanotechnology for Energy Applications with the University of Crete and FORTH and is a core partner of the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master EMINENT, hosting the programme’s first semester on functional nanomaterials and emerging technologies.

Main Library and Information Center - Heraklion

The Library and Information Center of the Hellenic Mediterranean University (HMU: Ελληνικό Μεσογειακό Πανεπιστήμιο) actively participates in national collaborative networks, most notably HEAL-Link (Σύνδεσμος Ελληνικών Ακαδημαϊκών Βιβλιοθηκών / Hellenic Academic Libraries Link), the consortium of Greek academic libraries. Through HEAL-Link, the library provides access to extensive electronic journals, databases, e-books, and open access publishing options via agreements with publishers such as Springer Nature and IOP Publishing while contributing to resource sharing.

The library also takes part in related HEAL-Link initiatives, such as the Collaborative Network for Accessible Bibliography for Persons with Disabilities. In September 2025, it co-organized the 1st International Week for Academic Libraries of HMU, held 22–26 September 2025 in Heraklion, Crete, bringing together 40 librarians from 20 countries to discuss open science, AI in libraries, digital transformation, and scholarly communication.

It builds on collections and services inherited from predecessor institutions since 1977, with its structure formalized under Law 4610/2019 .

See also

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