It is crucial to keep and make stronger our tradition of teaching and learning while at the same time develop an attributions set of operations, goals and desired accomplishments. The department of Architecture is invested in design grounded in critical representation where students learn how to beautifully draw, built and creatively think our mission is to educate professional architects and to advance architectural knowledge and creative practice through design-centered teaching and research. Epoka University is an institution that highly values and supports successful students learning in and out of the classroom and studios. It is a well known university for offering high quality student instructions. The department is a community of learners with students at the core of how they think, act and feel. Student’s engagement and satisfaction with their learning experience is a significant priority and teaching system is one of the pillars of the University. Yet they call for further development/attention.

    Specific goals for the Theme 1

Goal 1.1 To ensure the continuation of professional and academical training of members of Department of Architecture

Goal 1.2 Improve staff retention  by giving the possibility for the academic staff members to organize their activities such as site visits, field trips, attendance of conferences and workshops, organization of installations and expositions, publication of research papers

Goal 1.3 To facilitate the integration of the new staff through the organization of introductory social activities and trainings

Goal 1.4 To improve the quality and to increase the quantity of research activities in the department by academic staff members

Measures in order to reach mentions goals under Theme 1.

Measure 1.1 To promote the exchange of experience in different well known architectural schools, to participate in interdisciplinary research opportunities, to support the activities of the academicians addressed to upgrade their scientific titles and to create  Research Unit, for the academic staff as well for the students, where research projects can be developed.

Measure 1.2   Increase of participation in conferences, research projects and workshops through the allocation of the supportive funds and establishment of a scientific journal of Department

Measure 1.3To introduce the newcomers with the organization of the department’s workflow through invitation of the high quality students of the recent courses to participate in the selected classes as student assistants

Measure 1.4 To keep the Curriculum updated, to establish the collaboration between the school and architectural professionals, to establish a division within the department by research profiles such as Architectural Design, Building System, Landscape, urban Design and Interior Design and to provide a Research Unit or Laboratory for each division, to establish scientific architectural journal of the Department and a yearbook of the best architectural projects.