The purpose of the student advocate is to mediate between students and professors or administrative services of the institution, to observe legality in the context of academic freedom, to deal with phenomena of maladministration and to safeguard the orderly operation of the institution. The student’s advocate has no authority in matters of exams and students’ grades.
The Senate of the University of Western Macedonia, with decision no. Τ2/Σ110/08-04-2020, appointed Mr. Konstantinos Parisis, Professor of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the School of Engineering, as the advocate of the student of the University of Western Macedonia (contact phone 24610 56553 & 24610 68275 and email syn igorosfoititi@uowm.gr).
The student advocate investigates cases, ex officio or following a student’s report, and mediates with the institution’s competent bodies for their resolution. It can request from the services of the institution any information, document or other evidence on the case, examine persons, perform an autopsy and order an expert opinion. If he/she finds that in a specific case the law is not respected, that maladministration is observed or that the proper functioning of the institution is disturbed, he draws up a conclusion which he informs the professor concerned or the competent administrative department and the student who submitted the report, and mediates in any appropriate way to resolve the problem. The student’s advocate may, by his act, place in the file a report that is considered clearly vague, unfounded or unsupported, while in the event that he considers that there are indications of a disciplinary offense, he forwards the case to the competent disciplinary body. The findings of the student’s advocate, as well as a report with his annual activities, are published on the institution’s website, subject to the provisions of Law 2472/1997 (A ́ 50), as applicable.
Interested students can submit their requests using the special request submission form, which is attached below:
via email to the address: synigorosfoititi@uowm.gr
in person or via post to:
UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN MACEDONIA
Office of the Student Advocate
50100 Koila Kozani