The ATHENS Programme (for Advanced Technology Higher Education Network/Socrates) is a 1-week exchange session, held twice a year (in March and in November), by a network of European higher education institutions (universities, universities of technology, Grandes Ecoles...).
The programme is coordinated by
ParisTech.
History
Created in 1996, it was initially supported by the
European Union
The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe. The union has a total area of and an estimated total population of about 447million. The EU has often been des ...
through the
Socrates programme (from 1997 to 2001). It is now self-funded by the member institutions.
It is a merger of the 'Semaine Européenne' ('European Week') held by
ParisTech from 1992 to 1999, and the
Leuven Network ERASMUS Programme held by European institutions from 1990 to 1997.
Courses
The courses proposed during sessions cover not only the spectrum of the members' fields, but also an opening on arts and humanities.
Activities
During the week, the host university is supposed to organize activities for the foreign students in the city, to help them discover another culture. Most often, it will consist in a tour of the city a 5-day course on a specific subject and some nights with the local students.
Members
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AUTh Thessaloniki
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BME Budapest
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TU Delft
Delft University of Technology ( nl, Technische Universiteit Delft), also known as TU Delft, is the oldest and largest Dutch public technical university, located in Delft, Netherlands. As of 2022 it is ranked by QS World University Rankings among ...
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KU Leuven
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UCLouvain
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IST Lisbon
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UP Madrid
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Politecnico di Milano
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TU Munich
The Technical University of Munich (TUM or TU Munich; german: Technische Universität München) is a public research university in Munich, Germany. It specializes in engineering, technology, medicine, and applied and natural sciences.
Establis ...
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CTU Prague
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KTH Stockholm
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NTNU Trondheim
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TU Wien
TU Wien (TUW; german: Technische Universität Wien; still known in English as the Vienna University of Technology from 1975–2014) is one of the major universities in Vienna, Austria. The university finds high international and domestic recogn ...
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Warsaw University of Technology
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ITU Istanbul
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ParisTech:
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Chimie ParisTech (ENSCP)
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Institut d'Optique Graduate School
The Institut d'optique Graduate School ("Institute of optics"), nicknamed SupOptique or IOGS, is one of the most prestigious French Grandes Ecoles and the leading French ''grande école'' in the field of Optics and its industrial and scientific ap ...
(IOGS)
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AgroParisTech
AgroParisTech (officially ''Institut des sciences et industries du vivant et de l'environnement'', or Paris Institute of Technology for Life, Food and Environmental Sciences)English naming according tEnglish brochure is a French higher educati ...
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Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées (ENPC)
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Ecole des ingenieurs de la Ville de Paris (EIVP)
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Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et de l'Administration Economique (ENSAE)
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Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts et Métiers (ENSAM)
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Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines de Paris
Mines Paris - PSL, officially École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris (until May 2022 Mines ParisTech, also known as École des mines de Paris, ENSMP, Mines de Paris, les Mines, or Paris School of Mines), is a French grande école and a c ...
(ENSMP)
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Télécom ParisTech
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Ecole Nationale Superieure de Techniques Avancées
The ENSTA Paris, officially École nationale supérieure de techniques avancées ( en, Superior National School of Advanced Techniques) is a prestigious French graduate school of engineering ("''école d'ingénieurs''"). Founded in 1741, it is th ...
(ENSTA)
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(ESPCI)
Note: Not all members participate in both sessions.
Notes
External links
*The ATHENS Programme website
link ATHENS Programme
{{DEFAULTSORT:Athens Programme
Universities and colleges in France
Educational institutions established in 1996
1996 establishments in France