University of Thessaly

The University of Thessaly (UTh, Πανεπιστήμιο Θεσσαλίας) is a public university founded in 1984, with its administration on the Volos seafront and campuses in Larissa, Trikala, Karditsa and Lamia.色萨利大学（University of Thessaly，简称 UTh；希腊语 Πανεπιστήμιο Θεσσαλίας）是一所公立大学，1984 年创办，行政机构位于沃洛斯海滨，并在拉里萨、特里卡拉、卡尔季察与拉米亚设有校区。

It enrols about 45,660 undergraduates, 4,920 master's students and 1,736 doctoral candidates, taught by 1,107 permanent academic staff, which makes it the third largest university in Greece by student numbers.学校约有 45,660 名本科生、4,920 名硕士生与 1,736 名博士生，由 1,107 名常任教师授课，按学生规模计是希腊第三大大学。

Its eight schools and 37 departments span agriculture, engineering, health sciences, economics, humanities, special education, sport and technology, and the emblem is Chiron, the centaur of Mount Pelion who taught medicine and music.学校设八个学院、37 个系，覆盖农业、工程、健康科学、经济学、人文、特殊教育、体育与技术；校徽是喀戎，即皮利翁山上传授医学与音乐的半人马。

History

• Thessaly became part of the Greek state in 1881, and Volos grew into the region's main port, a gateway for the grain, cotton and tobacco of the Thessalian plain.色萨利于 1881 年并入希腊王国，沃洛斯逐渐成为本地区的主要港口，是色萨利平原粮食、棉花与烟草外运的门户。
• A severe earthquake struck Volos in 1955 and destroyed much of the old town, so the city that later received the university was largely rebuilt in modernist concrete and wide streets.1955 年的一场强烈地震摧毁了沃洛斯老城的大部分，因此后来接纳大学的这座城市主要以现代主义混凝土建筑与宽阔街道重建。
• The old Athens Bank building in central Volos, completed in 1903, survived the earthquake and was later renovated to house the university's central library.沃洛斯市中心的老雅典银行大楼建于 1903 年，在地震中幸存，后来经过翻修成为大学中央图书馆。
• Law 1268 of 1982 reshaped Greek higher education by organising universities into departments and schools, and it provided the legal framework under which several regional universities, including Thessaly, were created.1982 年第 1268 号法律把希腊高校重组为系与学院两级，为包括色萨利在内的多所地区性大学提供了设立的法律框架。
• The University of Thessaly was founded in 1984 as part of a national policy of decentralising higher education away from Athens and Thessaloniki, with its rectorate installed in Volos.色萨利大学于 1984 年创办，属于希腊把高等教育从雅典与塞萨洛尼基向外分散的国策，校部设在沃洛斯，创办初期学校仅有少数院系，校舍分散在市区，教学设备也相当有限。
• The first departments opened in Volos and Larissa in the mid-1980s, starting with engineering, medicine, primary education and agricultural science, and teaching began while permanent buildings were still being planned.首批院系于 1980 年代中期在沃洛斯与拉里萨开办，起初包括工程、医学、小学教育与农业科学，教学开始时永久校舍仍在规划之中。
• The medical school was placed in Larissa, the administrative capital of Thessaly, where it could use the city's general hospital for clinical teaching.医学院设在色萨利首府拉里萨，以便利用该市综合医院开展临床教学。
• Karditsa received veterinary medicine and agriculture, Trikala became the home of physical education and sport science, and these choices tied the university to the region's farming and health needs.卡尔季察承担兽医与农业学科，特里卡拉成为体育与运动科学所在地，这些布局把大学与本地区的农业和健康需求联系起来。
• The Library and Information Centre was founded in 1995 and took over the renovated Athens Bank building, with branch libraries later opened in every faculty across the five cities.图书馆与信息中心于 1995 年成立，接管翻修后的雅典银行大楼，此后在五座城市的每个学院都设立了分馆。
• A Department of Special Education was established in Volos, and it remains the only university department in Greece devoted specifically to training teachers for pupils with disabilities.特殊教育系在沃洛斯设立，至今仍是希腊唯一专门培养残障学生教师的大学系科。
• By 2001 all six schools and 18 departments were in operation, completing the first phase of the university's academic build-out.到 2001 年，六个学院与 18 个系全部投入运行，完成了大学学科建设的第一阶段。
• The University of Central Greece was created in Lamia in 2003, and its Department of Computer Science and Biomedical Informatics gave the city a small but research-active academic presence.中希腊大学于 2003 年在拉米亚创办，其计算机科学与生物医学信息学系让这座城市拥有了规模不大但科研活跃的学术力量。
• In 2013 the University of Central Greece was merged into Thessaly, adding the Lamia campus and the computer science department during the austerity years of the Greek financial crisis.2013 年，中希腊大学并入色萨利大学，在希腊财政紧缩时期为学校增加了拉米亚校区与计算机科学系，合并后拉米亚校区的师生逐步纳入色萨利大学的学籍与人事体系，课程设置也按色萨利的学位标准调整。
• By 2016 enrolment had reached close to 18,000 students, around one in six of them postgraduates, and the university had settled into a stable organisational structure.到 2016 年，在校生接近 18,000 人，其中约六分之一为研究生，学校也形成了稳定的组织结构。
• In 2019 the Technological Educational Institute of Central Greece was incorporated, extending the university's applied-science teaching and its presence in Lamia, and the merger made Thessaly one of the largest universities in Greece by department count.2019 年，中希腊技术教育学院并入，扩大了大学的应用科学教学与在拉米亚的存在，原技术教育学院的实验室与实训基地因此并入大学，增强了应用型课程的实力，合并使色萨利大学按院系数量计成为希腊规模最大的大学之一。
• Also in 2019 the university signed an agreement with the Central University of Finance and Economics in Beijing to create a Confucius Institute, which was formally inaugurated in 2021.同样在 2019 年，学校与北京中央财经大学签署协议共建孔子学院，该学院于 2021 年正式揭牌。
• The Confucius Institute teaches Chinese language and culture to students and local residents, and it has hosted youth exchanges and book donations from Chinese publishers.孔子学院面向学生与当地居民教授汉语与中国文化，并举办青年交流活动与中方出版社的赠书活动。
• During the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 the university moved lectures and examinations online, and its laboratories reopened in stages under health protocols.2020 年新冠疫情期间，学校把课程与考试转到线上，实验室则在防疫规范下分阶段重新开放。
• Storm Daniel struck Thessaly in September 2023, flooding Volos and the plain, damaging university facilities and disrupting the start of the academic year.2023 年 9 月，风暴丹尼尔袭击色萨利，沃洛斯与平原地区洪水泛滥，大学设施受损，部分校舍一度关闭数周，学年开学受到干扰，洪水退去后学校对受损建筑进行了修缮。
• In 2024 the university marked its fortieth anniversary with 45,660 undergraduates, 4,920 master's students, 1,736 doctoral candidates and 1,107 permanent staff, and an exhibition traced the institution's history from 1984.2024 年，学校迎来建校四十周年，当时有 45,660 名本科生、4,920 名硕士生、1,736 名博士生与 1,107 名常任教师，校庆系列活动包括开放日、学术会议、校友聚会与面向市民的讲座，校庆展览则回顾了学校自 1984 年以来的历程。
• Its eight schools and 37 departments now make it the third largest university in Greece, after the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.学校现有八个学院与 37 个系，规模在希腊位居第三，仅次于雅典国立卡波季斯特里安大学与塞萨洛尼基亚里士多德大学。

Academics

• The School of Agricultural Sciences works on crop production, animal science, agri-food technology and rural development, and it maintains experimental fields and a 52-hectare farm at Karditsa.农业科学学院研究作物生产、动物科学、农业食品技术与乡村发展，并在卡尔季察经营试验田与一处 52 公顷的农场。
• The School of Engineering in Volos teaches architecture, civil, mechanical, electrical, computer and industrial engineering, with design studios housed in a converted water pump station.沃洛斯的工程学院开设建筑、土木、机械、电气、计算机与工业工程，设计工作室设在一座改造后的水泵站内。
• The School of Health Sciences in Larissa includes medicine, nursing and biochemistry and biotechnology, and its clinical teaching relies on the University Hospital of Larissa.拉里萨的健康科学学院包括医学、护理学以及生物化学与生物技术，临床教学依托拉里萨大学医院。
• The School of Veterinary Medicine at Karditsa trains veterinarians for livestock practice and runs a teaching hospital and farm animal clinics that serve the region's producers.卡尔季察的兽医学院培养面向畜牧业的兽医，并设有教学医院与农场动物门诊，为本地区养殖者服务。
• The School of Humanities and Social Sciences in Volos covers history, archaeology and social anthropology, primary and preschool education, and the special education department.沃洛斯的人文与社会科学学院涵盖历史、考古学与社会人类学、小学与幼儿教育，以及特殊教育系。
• The School of Economics and Administrative Sciences teaches economics, accounting and finance, business administration and tourism, with programmes in both Volos and Larissa.经济与管理科学学院开设经济学、会计与金融、工商管理与旅游管理，在沃洛斯与拉里萨两地办学。
• The School of Physical Education, Sport Science and Dietetics in Trikala combines coaching, exercise physiology, sports medicine and nutritional science in one faculty.特里卡拉的体育、运动科学与营养学院把教练学、运动生理学、运动医学与营养科学集中在同一学院。
• The School of Technology in Larissa and Lamia offers computer science, biomedical informatics, energy systems, environmental engineering and digital systems.拉里萨与拉米亚的技术学院开设计算机科学、生物医学信息学、能源系统、环境工程与数字系统。
• The Department of Computer Science and Biomedical Informatics in Lamia is the successor of the department founded at the University of Central Greece in 2003.拉米亚的计算机科学与生物医学信息学系，继承自 2003 年在中希腊大学创办的同类系科。
• Postgraduate provision has expanded to 4,920 master's students, with programmes in agri-food, biomedical engineering, special education, heritage management and sport performance.研究生教育扩大到 4,920 名硕士生，项目涵盖农业食品、生物医学工程、特殊教育、遗产管理与运动表现。
• The doctoral school enrols 1,736 candidates, many of them working on water resources, veterinary epidemiology, aquaculture, materials and regional economics.博士学校共有 1,736 名在读生，许多人的研究涉及水资源、兽医流行病学、水产养殖、材料与区域经济。
• The KEDIVIM centre for continuing education and lifelong learning offers short courses on campus and by distance learning, certified through the national qualifications framework.继续教育与终身学习中心 KEDIVIM 在校园与线上开设短期课程，并通过国家资格框架认证。
• The university was a partner in PERFORMFISH, a European Union project that studied sea bass and sea bream farming in the Mediterranean and advised producers on breeding and feed.学校参与了欧盟项目 PERFORMFISH，研究地中海鲈鱼与鲷鱼养殖，并就育种与饲料向养殖者提供建议。
• The Centaurus Formula Student team has designed and built single-seat racing cars since 2009 and competes at international Formula Student events in Europe.半人马大学生方程式车队自 2009 年起设计并制造单座赛车，参加欧洲多地举行的国际大学生方程式赛事。
• The Hellenic Quality Assurance and Accreditation Agency carried out an external evaluation and gave the university a positive assessment in 2015, praising teaching and research organisation.希腊质量保障与认证署对学校进行外部评估，于 2015 年给出正面评价，肯定其教学与科研组织，评估结果对外公开。
• Teaching is mainly in Greek, but the university offers English-taught modules and a growing number of postgraduate programmes for international students, alongside Erasmus exchanges.教学以希腊语为主，但学校为国际学生开设英语授课模块与越来越多的研究生项目，并参与伊拉斯谟交换，交换生可申请住宿补助。
• Research strengths include agricultural technology, veterinary science, marine aquaculture, biomedical imaging, cultural heritage and the modelling of water and energy systems.研究优势包括农业技术、兽医科学、海洋水产养殖、生物医学成像、文化遗产以及水与能源系统建模，这些方向与色萨利的农业、畜牧、水资源与洪水风险直接相关。

Campus

• The university has no single main campus, and its buildings are distributed across Volos and four other Thessalian cities, so students often move between sites within a city.学校没有单一主校区，建筑分布在沃洛斯与另外四座色萨利城市，学生在同一城市内也常需往返于不同校点。
• The rectorate occupies the seafront at Argonafton and Filellinon in Volos, close to the port and the commercial centre, and the address is used as the university's official seat.校部位于沃洛斯海滨的阿尔戈纳夫通街与菲莱利农街，靠近港口与商业中心，这一地址是大学的官方所在地，港口承担粮食与棉花出口。
• Engineering and architecture are taught in a group of buildings around the old pump station, a short walk from the seafront and the city's cultural venues.工程与建筑学科在旧水泵站周边的一组建筑中授课，距海滨与城市文化场所步行可达。
• The Larissa campus at Geopolis brings together medicine, nursing, biochemistry, agriculture, economics and technology on a site outside the city centre.拉里萨的 Geopolis 校区位于市中心之外，集中了医学、护理、生物化学、农业、经济学与技术学科。
• Karditsa houses the veterinary school and its farm, with stables, clinics and fields that support teaching in large-animal medicine and livestock production.卡尔季察设有兽医学院及其农场，配备马厩、门诊与田地，支持大动物医学与畜牧生产教学。
• Trikala provides facilities for sport science, including gymnasiums, a swimming pool and laboratories for exercise testing, and the city is known for its riverside walks.特里卡拉为运动科学提供体育馆、游泳池与运动测试实验室，这座城市也以河畔步道闻名。
• Lamia, added in 2013 and expanded in 2019, hosts computer science, biomedical informatics and applied technology programmes in a compact campus, and Lamia is the capital of the Central Greece region at the foot of Mount Oeta.拉米亚校区于 2013 年加入、2019 年扩大，在紧凑的校园里开设计算机科学、生物医学信息学与应用技术课程，拉米亚是中部希腊大区首府，位于伊塔山山麓，校区距拉米亚市中心不远，学生多在城市租房。
• The central library in the old Athens Bank retains the building's high ceilings and stone facade, and branch libraries serve every faculty in all five cities.老雅典银行内的中央图书馆保留了建筑的高挑天花板与石砌立面，分馆则服务五座城市的每个学院，中央馆与各分馆之间可以通借通还，读者还可远程使用电子期刊与数据库。
• A student residence hall in Volos provides only 40 rooms, so most students rent flats, supported by an accommodation grant of 1,000 euros a year for eligible students.沃洛斯的学生宿舍仅有 40 个房间，多数学生在外租房，符合条件者可获得每年 1,000 欧元的住宿补助。
• Volos sits between the Pagasetic Gulf and Mount Pelion, and the university's setting gives easy access to beaches, hiking trails and ski slopes.沃洛斯位于帕加西蒂科斯湾与皮利翁山之间，大学周边便于前往海滩、徒步小径与滑雪场。

Reputation

• In the QS World University Rankings 2027 the University of Thessaly is placed in the 1201-1400 band, a tied range shared by several universities at this level.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，色萨利大学位列 1201-1400 区间，这是该层次多所高校共享的并列区间。
• The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 place it in the 1001-1200 band, its strongest showing among the major global tables.《泰晤士高等教育》2027 年世界大学排名把该校列入 1001-1200 区间，这是它在主要全球榜单中的最好位置。
• U.S. News and World Report ranks it 1,021st in its 2026-2027 global universities list, a position driven by research output and regional reputation.《美国新闻与世界报道》2026-2027 年度全球大学榜单把该校排在第 1,021 位，这一位置主要由科研产出与地区声誉决定。
• The university did not enter the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities main table, and it has not appeared in the Shanghai ranking's top group in recent years.该校未进入 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名主榜，近年来也未出现在该榜单的前列梯队，学校因此把资源集中于应用研究与地区合作，而非追求综合榜单名次，这一策略也体现在其博士培养方向上。
• OpenAlex records 32,617 works and 1,582,445 citations for the university's researchers, with agriculture, veterinary medicine and clinical sciences among the most cited fields.OpenAlex 收录该校科研人员成果 32,617 项、引用 1,582,445 次，农业、兽医医学与临床科学是引用较多的领域，这些数据每年更新。
• With 45,660 undergraduates the university is the third largest in Greece, it belongs to the Balkan Universities Network, and its regional scale gives it a strong role in educating teachers, doctors, engineers and agronomists for central Greece.凭借 45,660 名本科生，该校是希腊第三大大学，其区域规模使它在为中希腊培养教师、医生、工程师与农艺师方面作用突出，学校还是巴尔干大学网络成员。
• The 2015 external evaluation by the Hellenic Quality Assurance and Accreditation Agency was positive, and the university has since expanded its quality-assurance procedures.希腊质量保障与认证署 2015 年的外部评估结果为正面，此后学校扩大了质量保障程序。
• Its agricultural and veterinary faculties are closely tied to the plain's cotton, wheat, livestock and dairy economy, and they run field trials with producers and cooperatives.该校农业与兽医学科与色萨利平原的棉花、小麦、畜牧与乳业经济紧密相连，并与生产者及合作社开展田间试验。
• Marine aquaculture research, including the PERFORMFISH project on sea bass and sea bream, has given the university a niche reputation in Mediterranean fish farming.包括地中海鲈鱼与鲷鱼项目在内的海水养殖研究，使该校在地中海鱼类养殖领域形成了特色声誉。
• The special education department is nationally distinctive, and its graduates staff schools and support services across Greece, which raises the university's profile in teacher training.特殊教育系在全国具有独特性，其毕业生进入希腊各地学校与支持服务机构，提升了学校在教师培养方面的知名度。

Student life

• Student life is spread across five cities, and the largest concentrations are in Volos, where the rectorate and engineering schools sit, and Larissa, the medical and agricultural centre.学生生活分布在五座城市，规模最大的是沃洛斯与拉里萨，前者有校部与工程学院，后者是医学与农业中心。
• Student groups include a theatre company, musical ensembles, a photography club, a cinema club and a student radio station that broadcasts from Volos.学生团体包括剧团、音乐合奏团、摄影社、电影社与从沃洛斯播出的学生电台，电台节目由学生制作。
• The physical education faculty organises intramural teams and fitness classes, and students can use gymnasiums and sports fields in Trikala and Volos.体育学院组织校内联赛与健身课程，学生可使用特里卡拉与沃洛斯的体育馆和运动场。
• Housing is limited, with 40 rooms in the Volos residence hall, and the university pays accommodation grants of 1,000 euros a year to eligible Greek and EU students.住宿资源有限，沃洛斯宿舍仅有 40 个房间，学校向符合条件的希腊与欧盟学生发放每年 1,000 欧元的住宿补助。
• Students from outside the EU can receive a monthly accommodation grant of 100 euros, and exchange students are helped to find flats near their faculties.欧盟以外学生可领取每月 100 欧元的住宿补助，交换生也会得到在其学院附近租房的帮助。
• The Laboratory of Psychology and Educational Applications offers free counselling and study-skills support to students dealing with stress, relationships or academic difficulties.心理学与教育应用实验室为学生提供免费咨询与学习技能支持，帮助他们应对压力、人际关系或学业困难，服务完全免费且严格保密，学生可通过网络预约。
• Volos is known for its tsipouro tavernas, where students gather over small plates, and the seafront promenade links the port, the university buildings and the nightlife districts.沃洛斯以齐普罗酒馆闻名，学生常在那里围坐小酌，齐普罗酒馆通常按杯计价，配以小盘海鲜、腌鱼与当地奶酪，海滨长廊把港口、大学建筑与夜生活区连在一起。
• Mount Pelion offers weekend hiking, mountain villages and winter skiing, while the beaches of the Pagasetic Gulf are reachable by city bus.皮利翁山适合周末徒步、探访山村与冬季滑雪，帕加西蒂科斯湾的海滩则可乘城市公交抵达。
• Erasmus exchanges bring European students to all five cities, and the Confucius Institute adds Chinese cultural events, calligraphy classes and language competitions.伊拉斯谟交换把欧洲学生带到全部五座城市，孔子学院则增添中国文化活动、书法课与语言比赛。
• The Centaurus Formula Student team recruits engineering students each year, and its workshop is a social hub as well as a training ground in design and manufacturing.半人马大学生方程式车队每年招募工程学生，其车间既是设计制造的训练场，也是社交据点。

Notable people

• Alexis Batrakoulis, an exercise physiologist and graduate of the university, was named IDEA Personal Trainer of the Year in 2018 and NSCA Personal Trainer of the Year in 2020.亚历克西斯·巴特拉库利斯是运动生理学家、该校毕业生，曾获 2018 年 IDEA 年度私人教练与 2020 年美国国家体能协会年度私人教练称号。
• Georgios Petrakos, a professor of economic development and regional policy, served as rector and has written extensively on Greek regional inequality and industrial districts.乔治·彼得拉科斯是经济发展与区域政策教授，曾担任校长，著有多部关于希腊区域不平等与工业区的研究。
• Charalampos Billinis, a professor of veterinary microbiology, has led the university as rector and researches viral diseases of livestock and wildlife.哈拉兰博斯·比利尼斯是兽医微生物学教授，曾领导该校并研究家畜与野生动物的病毒性疾病。
• Kitsos Makris, the Volos folklorist and scholar, is commemorated in the university library's folklore centre, which holds his collection and papers.沃洛斯民俗学者基措斯·马克里斯在该校图书馆的民俗中心中受到纪念，那里收藏着他的藏品与文稿。
• Chiron, the wise centaur of Mount Pelion, gives the university its emblem and symbolises the medical, musical and athletic knowledge taught on the slopes above Volos.皮利翁山的智慧半人马喀戎是该校校徽的形象，象征在沃洛斯周边山麓传授的医学、音乐与体育知识。
• The city of Volos, home of the university, was the birthplace of the composer Vangelis and the painter Giorgio de Chirico, and their work features in local cultural programming.大学所在的沃洛斯是作曲家范吉利斯与画家乔治·德·基里科的出生地，他们的作品出现在当地的文化活动中。
• Medical graduates of the Larissa school staff hospitals and health centres across Thessaly, and many return to the university hospital for specialist training.拉里萨医学院的毕业生供职于色萨利各地的医院与卫生中心，许多人回到大学医院接受专科培训。
• Agronomy and veterinary graduates work with cooperatives, dairies and export firms on the plain, applying research on irrigation, animal health and food safety.农学与兽医毕业生在平原地区的合作社、乳品厂与出口企业工作，把灌溉、动物健康与食品安全研究成果付诸实践。
• Engineers from the Volos school have moved into the shipbuilding, metallurgy and food-processing industries around the Pagasetic Gulf, and some have founded technology firms.沃洛斯工程学院的毕业生进入帕加西蒂科斯湾周边的造船、冶金与食品加工业，也有人创办了科技公司。
• Teachers trained in Volos and Larissa, including graduates of the special education department, work in schools throughout Greece and in Greek-language schools abroad.在沃洛斯与拉里萨培养的教师，包括特殊教育系毕业生，在希腊各地以及海外希腊语学校任教。