Module Objectives

Placement aims at the practical application of the acquired knowledge, the development of skills and the familiarization of students with new specialties and important scientific subjects of both Human and Physical Geography and Geoinformatics. The course enables students to improve their training in basic knowledge areas of the science of Geography and publishes the skills and the potential professional abilities of the future graduates of the Department of Geography. It offers the possibility of effective contact of the students with the workplace. Among the main objectives of the Placement is to familiarize the future graduates of the Department with the reality of the labor market in order to be able to seek employment in areas that cover their personal and scientific interests.

Course Content

Placement includes a series of educational processes with clear objectives and predefined evaluation strategies in order to provide students with work experience and skills in Geography, to supervise and perform the profession and to become familiar with their future duties. The subject of the employment of the student during the Placement is determined by the Employer in cooperation with the Supervisor Professor.

Teaching and Assessment

Duration: 250 hours (44 days).

At the end of the Placement the student has to provide to the Placement Office and Secretary (i) a certificate of completion of the Placement, completed by the legal representative of the Employer, (ii) the Student Performance Report, completed by the Supervisor on behalf of the Employer, (iii) Placement progress report (completed by the student) and (iv) Practice Exercise Program Assessment Questionnaire (completed by the student).

The Supervisor Professor, sends the final grade to the Secretariat and the Coordinator of the Placement, taking into account the Student Performance Report.