Campus Life
September 13, 2024 2024-11-14 15:18Campus Life
Campus Life
Cultural, social, and sporting activities together with wide ranging extra-curricular academic events combine to make campus life stimulating. Campus life together with the lively social environments of the two campuses host cities – Rethymnon and Heraklion – are further enriched by community access to University sport, museum, and library facilities, schools liaison, public lectures and events, volunteer activities, and multiple regional and community partnerships.
Societies
University Societies Rethymno
University Societies Heraklio
Smoke-Free Campus Policy
The University of Crete is committed to ensuring a safe and healthy working and learning environment. In line with this commitment, the following smoke-free policy has been adopted. Smoking is prohibited on all campus property, both indoors and outdoors. Signs indicating the prohibition of smoking and tobacco use are prominently posted at key locations outside UoC buildings. No ashtrays are provided anywhere on campus. Designated officials are responsible for informing all members of the University community about this policy and for addressing any reported violations. Violations may result in disciplinary action.
For comprehensive details about the policy, please visit the official Senate’s Council decision in Greek (pdf).
Museums
The NHMC is a pioneering institute in study and management of the natural environment in Crete, Greece and the wider Eastern Mediterranean, with public education and outreach on environmental issues as core activities.
This is an archaeological site museum, created to house the results of excavations in the ancient city of Eleutherna. The Museum’s Research Centre, open to scholars from around the world, is dedicated to the study of the Eleutherna excavations, Crete, and Mediterranean history and archaeology.
The Museum acts as a centre for the preservation, research and promotion of the History of Medicine from antiquity to the present day. The permanent exhibition alongside public events cover the history of medicine in Crete, medicinal herbs, public health, medical instruments, and medicine in art.
The Museum preserves exhibits, studies, and publicly promotes the educational school background and the history of the teaching profession during the period of Modern Greek history. Exhibits include rare evidence from the Heraklion Pedagogical Academy and school artefacts from the 18th to 20th centuries.
Sports Centers of the University of Crete
The University has excellent sports facilities at both the Rethymnon and the Heraklion campuses. These include well-equipped gymnasiums and, in the Heraklion complex, an indoor pool, as well as playing fields and mooring berths. A wide range of sporting, athletic and gymnastic programmes are offered on the campuses, ranging from yoga and Tae Kwon Do through to football, tennis, and sailing. The University also has teams training and competing in inter-departmental and inter-University league games and other contests in a number of sports, including basketball, football, and sailing.
The Gymnasium is located on the west side of the Gallos University Campus and offers students, staff and faculty the opportunity to exercise free of charge in a friendly environment. It has a fully equipped cardio-respiratory and muscle strengthening workout room and is open daily from 14:30 until 20:00.
The Sports Centre on the Voutes Campus has been operating since 2007. The 1,080 seat indoor Gym and the 25m indoor pool are open to students, staff and faculty for individual and team training/exercise daily from 08.00 until 20.30. The Centre also organizes swimming classes for children, and community events such as the annual ‘University Road Run’.
Volunteering
Volunteering enriches student life as it promotes active engagement in the community and helps students improve their skills and meet new people.
According to the definition of the General Secretariat for Youth (2011), volunteering is work or service undertaken either individually or in groups, without any expectation of or claim to material or other kind of gain, with the aim of providing support to fellow human beings and the community in general. In addition to the above, the key principles underpinning volunteering include respect for the rights, dignity and culture of all people and the promotion of equality and human rights. Volunteering is not a substitute for paid work. Volunteers do not replace paid workers and do not pose a threat to their job security.
The University of Crete offers many opportunities for participation in voluntary activities. For more information on available opportunities students can contact the Student Counseling Centre hskf@edu.uoc.gr , the Student Centre fk@culture.uoc.gr in Heraklion, the Student Centre’s Coordinator in Rethymnon skepetzi@admin.uoc.gr, and their Departments.