Admission Requirements
In order to enter the corresponding Master’s Programme, students need to hold a Bachelors degree and a good knowledge of the English language

Learning Outcomes
Knowledge: interconnections of the green chemistry principles in chemical processes taking place in an industrial or educational laboratory, awareness of the different biomass systems (agriculture-based, forest-based, fishery and aquaculture-based, waste-based) and their potential for materials and energy production, understanding of the multiple meanings of bioeconomy

Skills: Identification of the challenges involved in specific bioeconomic applications and proposal of the optimal trajectory for their implementation, act for the promotion of the public understanding of bioeconomy, Re-designing of different processes, educational activities, and everyday life activities in order to meet the green chemistry philosophy

Competences: Promotion of systems thinking, Respect toward the environment, Work in an interdisciplinary field, Facing novel challenges – Adaptation in new situations, Decision making, Autonomous and team work

Programme
The main contents of the course are the following:
• The roots of Green Chemistry philosophy
• The 12 Green Chemistry Principles
• Green Chemistry Education
• Connection of green chemistry with Education for Sustainable Development (ESD)
• Connections of green chemistry with complex systems thinking
• Teaching challenges in green chemistry education (teachers – students)
• Pedagogical models for approaching sustainability via green chemistry
• The roots and meanings of Bioeconomy
• Biomass characteristics and production
• Bioeconomy and food security
• Biomass use for the production of chemicals and energy (biorefineries)
• Bioeconomy and the economic value chain
• Transition challenges and conditions for a sustainable bioeconomy
• Public understanding of bioeconomy

References
- Bioeconomy for beginners, Joachim Pietzsch (Ed.), Springer, 2017
- Anastas, P., & Eghbali, N. (2010). Green chemistry: Principles and practice. Chemical Society Reviews, 39(1), 301–312.

Teaching Methodology
• Interactive Lectures (eg accompanied by work in small groups in class)
• Group Project (Case study analysis)
• Personal project (Critical bibliographic research)

Language of the Curriculum and Course
Greek

ECTS Credits
The course corresponds to 6 ECTS credits and its length equals one full academic semester (4.5 months).

Examination Methodology
• Group project report and presentation
• Personal project report and presentation

Relevance
Both fields (green chemistry and bioeconomy) are related with complex issues and promote systems thinking in order to achieve sustainability in different aspects of human activity (eg. in education, in entrepreneurship, in economic development).