The 2013 International Conference on Education and Educational Technologies
July 16-19, 2013, Rhodes (Rodos) Island, Greece
http://www.europment.org/
Extended Versions of Selected papers (about 40%) will be published in Journals of NOVA
Publishers or as Chapters in Books of Springer Verlag, World Scientific, Imperial College
Press, IOS Press, IGI Global and others:
These Books (hard copies) of Springer Verlag, World Scientific, Imperial College Press, IOS
Press, IGI Global, etc will be sent to all authors after the conference. These publishers
will take care of Indexing of these Books in all major indexes (including ISI).
The Proceedings of the Conference (all the accepted and registered papers; not only the
selected ones to be sent to the previous publishers) with all the accepted and registered
papers of the conferences will be sent for indexing to: ISI (Thomson Reuters), ELSEVIER,
SCOPUS, ACM - Association for Computing Machinery, Zentralblatt MATH, British Library, EBSCO,
SWETS, EMBASE, CAS - American Chemical Society, EI Compendex, Engineering Village, DoPP,
GEOBASE, Biobase, TIB|UB - German National Library of Science and Technology, American
Mathematical Society (AMS), Inspec - The IET, Ulrich's International Periodicals Directory.
The conference will feature tutorials, technical paper presentations, workshops and
distinguished keynote speeches
Organizing Committee
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General Chairs
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Professor Charles A. Long
Professor Emeritus
University of Wisconsin
Stevens Point, Wisconsin, USA
Professor Nikos E. Mastorakis
Military Institutes of University Education (ASEI)
Hellenic Naval Academy Sector of Electrical Engineering
and Computer Science Piraeus, Greece
-also with- Technical University of Sofia
1000 Sofia, Bulgaria
Professor Valeri Mladenov
Technical University of Sofia
1000 Sofia, Bulgaria
Senior Program Chair
Professor Philippe Dondon
ENSEIRB
Rue A Schweitzer 33400 Talence
France
Program Chairs
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Professor Filippo Neri
Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica University of Naples "Federico II"
Naples, Italy
Professor Hamid Reza Karimi
Department of Engineering
Faculty of Engineering and Science
University of Agder, N-4898 Grimstad
Norway
Professor Sandra Sendra
Instituto de Inv. para la Gestión Integrada de Zonas Costeras (IGIC) Universidad Politécnica
de Valencia Spain
Tutorials Chair
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Professor Pradip Majumdar
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Northern Illinois University
Dekalb, Illinois, USA
Special Session Chair
Professor Pavel Varacha
Tomas Bata University in Zlin
Faculty of Applied Informatics
Department of Informatics and Artificial Intelligence Zlin, Czech Republic
Workshops Chair
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Professor Ryszard S. Choras
Institute of Telecommunications
University of Technology & Life Sciences Bydgoszcz, Poland
Local Organizing Chair
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Assistant Professor Klimis Ntalianis,
Technological Educat. Inst. of
Athens (TEI), Athens, Greece
Publication Chair
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Professor Gen Qi Xu
Department of Mathematics
Tianjin University
Tianjin, China
Publicity Committee
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Professor Reinhard Neck
Department of Economics
Klagenfurt University
Klagenfurt, Austria
Professor Myriam Lazard
Institut Superieur d' Ingenierie de la Conception Saint Die, France International Liaisons
Professor Ka-Lok Ng
Department of Bioinformatics
Asia University
Taichung, Taiwan
Professor Olga Martin
Applied Sciences Faculty
Politehnica University of Bucharest
Romania
Professor Vincenzo Niola
Departement of Mechanical Engineering for Energetics University of Naples "Federico II"
Naples, Italy
Professor Eduardo Mario Dias
Electrical Energy and Automation
Engineering Department
Escola Politecnica da Universidade de Sao Paulo Brazil
Steering Committee
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Professor Aida Bulucea, University of Craiova,
Romania Professor Dana Simian, Univ. of Sibiu, Sibiu, Romania
Professor Zoran Bojkovic, Univ. of Belgrade, Serbia
Professor Metin Demiralp, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey
Professor F. V. Topalis, Nat. Tech. Univ. of Athens, Greece
Professor Imre Rudas, Obuda University, Budapest, Hungary
Program Committee
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Prof. Lotfi Zadeh (IEEE Fellow,University of Berkeley, USA)
Prof. Leon Chua (IEEE Fellow,University of Berkeley, USA)
Prof. Michio Sugeno (RIKEN Brain Science Institute (RIKEN BSI), Japan)
Prof. Dimitri Bertsekas (IEEE Fellow, MIT, USA)
Prof. Demetri Terzopoulos (IEEE Fellow, ACM Fellow, UCLA, USA)
Prof. Georgios B. Giannakis (IEEE Fellow, University of Minnesota, USA)
Prof. George Vachtsevanos (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
Prof. Abraham Bers (IEEE Fellow, MIT, USA)
Prof. David Staelin (IEEE Fellow, MIT, USA)
Prof. Brian Barsky (IEEE Fellow, University of Berkeley, USA)
Prof. Aggelos Katsaggelos (IEEE Fellow, Northwestern University, USA)
Prof. Josef Sifakis (Turing Award 2007, CNRS/Verimag, France)
Prof. Hisashi Kobayashi (Princeton University, USA)
Prof. Kinshuk (Fellow IEEE, Massey Univ. New Zeland),
Prof. Leonid Kazovsky (Stanford University, USA)
Prof. Narsingh Deo (IEEE Fellow, ACM Fellow, University of Central Florida, USA)
Prof. Kamisetty Rao (Fellow IEEE, Univ. of Texas at Arlington,USA)
Prof. Anastassios Venetsanopoulos (Fellow IEEE, University of Toronto, Canada)
Prof. Steven Collicott (Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA)
Prof. Nikolaos Paragios (Ecole Centrale Paris, France)
Prof. Nikolaos G. Bourbakis (IEEE Fellow, Wright State University, USA)
Prof. Stamatios Kartalopoulos (IEEE Fellow, University of Oklahoma, USA)
Prof. Irwin Sandberg (IEEE Fellow, University of Texas at Austin, USA),
Prof. Michael Sebek (IEEE Fellow, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic)
Prof. Hashem Akbari (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
Prof. Yuriy S. Shmaliy, (IEEE Fellow, The University of Guanajuato, Mexico)
Prof. Lei Xu (IEEE Fellow, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Prof. Paul E. Dimotakis (California Institute of Technology Pasadena, USA)
Prof. M. Pelikan (UMSL, USA)
Prof. Patrick Wang (MIT, USA)
Prof. Wasfy B Mikhael (IEEE Fellow, University of Central Florida Orlando,USA)
Prof. Sunil Das (IEEE Fellow, University of Ottawa, Canada)
Prof. Panos Pardalos (University of Florida, USA)
Prof. Nikolaos D. Katopodes (University of Michigan, USA)
Prof. Bimal K. Bose (Life Fellow of IEEE, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA)
Prof. Janusz Kacprzyk (IEEE Fellow, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland)
Prof. Sidney Burrus (IEEE Fellow, Rice University, USA)
Prof. Biswa N. Datta (IEEE Fellow, Northern Illinois University, USA)
Prof. Mihai Putinar (University of California at Santa Barbara, USA)
Prof. Wlodzislaw Duch (Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland)
Prof. Tadeusz Kaczorek (IEEE Fellow, Warsaw University of Tehcnology, Poland)
Prof. Michael N. Katehakis (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA)
Prof. Pan Agathoklis (Univ. of Victoria, Canada)
Prof. P. Demokritou (Harvard University, USA)
Prof. P. Razelos (Columbia University, USA)
Dr. Subhas C. Misra (Harvard University, USA)
Prof. Martin van den Toorn (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
Prof. Malcolm J. Crocker (Distinguished University Prof., Auburn University,USA)
Prof. S. Dafermos (Brown University, USA)
Prof. Urszula Ledzewicz, Southern Illinois University , USA.
Prof. Dimitri Kazakos, Dean, (Texas Southern University, USA)
Prof. Ronald Yager (Iona College, USA)
Prof. Athanassios Manikas (Imperial College, London, UK)
Prof. Keith L. Clark (Imperial College, London, UK)
Prof. Argyris Varonides (Univ. of Scranton, USA)
Prof. S. Furfari (Direction Generale Energie et Transports, Brussels, EU)
Prof. Constantin Udriste, University Politehnica of Bucharest , ROMANIA
Dr. Michelle Luke (Univ. Berkeley, USA)
Prof. Patrice Brault (Univ. Paris-sud, France)
Dr. Christos E. Vasios (MIT, USA)
Prof. Jim Cunningham (Imperial College London, UK)
Prof. Philippe Ben-Abdallah (Ecole Polytechnique de l'Universite de Nantes, France)
Prof. Photios Anninos (Medical School of Thrace, Greece)
Prof. Ichiro Hagiwara, (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
Prof. Metin Demiralp ( Istanbul Technical University / Turkish Academy of Sciences, Istanbul,
Turkey)
Prof. Andris Buikis (Latvian Academy of Science. Latvia)
Prof. Akshai Aggarwal (University of Windsor, Canada)
Prof. George Vachtsevanos (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
Prof. Ulrich Albrecht (Auburn University, USA)
Prof. Imre J. Rudas (Obuda University, Hungary)
Prof. Alexey L Sadovski (IEEE Fellow, Texas A&M University, USA)
Prof. Amedeo Andreotti (University of Naples, Italy)
Prof. Ryszard S. Choras (University of Technology and Life Sciences Bydgoszcz, Poland)
Prof. Remi Leandre (Universite de Bourgogne, Dijon, France)
Prof. Moustapha Diaby (University of Connecticut, USA)
Prof. Brian McCartin (New York University, USA)
Prof. Elias C. Aifantis (Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki, Greece)
Prof. Anastasios Lyrintzis (Purdue University, USA)
Prof. Charles Long (Prof. Emeritus University of Wisconsin, USA)
Prof. Marvin Goldstein (NASA Glenn Research Center, USA)
Prof. Costin Cepisca (University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest, Romania)
Prof. Kleanthis Psarris (University of Texas at San Antonio, USA)
Prof. Ron Goldman (Rice University, USA)
Prof. Ioannis A. Kakadiaris (University of Houston, USA)
Prof. Richard Tapia (Rice University, USA)
Prof. F.-K. Benra (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)
Prof. Milivoje M. Kostic (Northern Illinois University, USA)
Prof. Helmut Jaberg (University of Technology Graz, Austria)
Prof. Ardeshir Anjomani (The University of Texas at Arlington, USA)
Prof. Heinz Ulbrich (Technical University Munich, Germany)
Prof. Reinhard Leithner (Technical University Braunschweig, Germany)
Prof. Elbrous M. Jafarov (Istanbul Technical University, Turkey)
Prof. M. Ehsani (Texas A&M University, USA)
Prof. Sesh Commuri (University of Oklahoma, USA)
Prof. Nicolas Galanis (Universite de Sherbrooke, Canada)
Prof. S. H. Sohrab (Northwestern University, USA)
Prof. Rui J. P. de Figueiredo (University of California, USA)
Prof. Valeri Mladenov (Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria)
Prof. Hiroshi Sakaki (Meisei University, Tokyo, Japan)
Prof. Zoran S. Bojkovic (Technical University of Belgrade, Serbia)
Prof. K. D. Klaes, (Head of the EPS Support Science Team in the MET Division at EUMETSAT,
France)
Prof. Emira Maljevic (Technical University of Belgrade, Serbia)
Prof. Kazuhiko Tsuda (University of Tsukuba, Tokyo, Japan)
Prof. Milan Stork (University of West Bohemia , Czech Republic)
Prof. C. G. Helmis (University of Athens, Greece)
Prof. Lajos Barna (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary)
Prof. Nobuoki Mano (Meisei University, Tokyo, Japan)
Prof. Nobuo Nakajima (The University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan)
Prof. Victor-Emil Neagoe (Polytechnic University of Bucharest, Romania)
Prof. E. Protonotarios (National Technical University of Athens, Greece)
Prof. P. Vanderstraeten (Brussels Institute for Environmental Management, Belgium)
Prof. Annaliese Bischoff (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA)
Prof. Virgil Tiponut (Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania)
Prof. Andrei Kolyshkin (Riga Technical University, Latvia)
Prof. Fumiaki Imado (Shinshu University, Japan)
Prof. Sotirios G. Ziavras (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA)
Prof. Constantin Volosencu (Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania)
Prof. Marc A. Rosen (University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada)
Prof. Alexander Zemliak (Puebla Autonomous University, Mexico)
Prof. Thomas M. Gatton (National University, San Diego, USA)
Prof. Leonardo Pagnotta (University of Calabria, Italy)
Prof. Yan Wu (Georgia Southern University, USA)
Prof. Daniel N. Riahi (University of Texas-Pan American, USA)
Prof. Alexander Grebennikov (Autonomous University of Puebla, Mexico)
Prof. Bennie F. L. Ward (Baylor University, TX, USA)
Prof. Guennadi A. Kouzaev (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway)
Prof. Eugene Kindler (University of Ostrava, Czech Republic)
Prof. Geoff Skinner (The University of Newcastle, Australia)
Prof. Hamido Fujita (Iwate Prefectural University(IPU), Japan)
Prof. Francesco Muzi (University of L'Aquila, Italy)
Prof. Les M. Sztandera (Philadelphia University, USA)
Prof. Claudio Rossi (University of Siena, Italy)
Prof. Christopher J. Koroneos (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece)
Prof. Sergey B. Leonov (Joint Institute for High Temperature Russian Academy of Science,
Russia)
Prof. Arpad A. Fay (University of Miskolc, Hungary)
Prof. Lili He (San Jose State University, USA)
Prof. M. Nasseh Tabrizi (East Carolina University, USA)
Prof. Alaa Eldin Fahmy (University Of Calgary, Canada)
Prof. Ion Carstea (University of Craiova, Romania)
Prof. Paul Dan Cristea (University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania)
Prof. Gh. Pascovici (University of Koeln, Germany)
Prof. Pier Paolo Delsanto (Politecnico of Torino, Italy)
Prof. Radu Munteanu (Rector of the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania)
Prof. Ioan Dumitrache (Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania)
Prof. Corneliu Lazar (Technical University Gh.Asachi Iasi, Romania)
Prof. Nicola Pitrone (Universita degli Studi Catania, Italia)
Prof. Miquel Salgot (University of Barcelona, Spain)
Prof. Amaury A. Caballero (Florida International University, USA)
Prof. Maria I. Garcia-Planas (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain)
Prof. Petar Popivanov (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria)
Prof. Alexander Gegov (University of Portsmouth, UK)
Prof. Lin Feng (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Prof. Colin Fyfe (University of the West of Scotland, UK)
Prof. Zhaohui Luo (Univ of London, UK)
Prof. Mikhail Itskov (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
Prof. George G. Tsypkin (Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia)
Prof. Wolfgang Wenzel (Institute for Nanotechnology, Germany)
Prof. Weilian Su (Naval Postgraduate School, USA)
Prof. Phillip G. Bradford (The University of Alabama, USA)
Prof. Ray Hefferlin (Southern Adventist University, TN, USA)
Prof. Gabriella Bognar (University of Miskolc, Hungary)
Prof. Hamid Abachi (Monash University, Australia)
Prof. Karlheinz Spindler (Fachhochschule Wiesbaden, Germany)
Prof. Josef Boercsoek (Universitat Kassel, Germany)
Prof. Eyad H. Abed (University of Maryland, Maryland, USA)
Prof. F. Castanie (TeSA, Toulouse, France)
Prof. Robert K. L. Gay (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Prof. Andrzej Ordys (Kingston University, UK)
Prof. Harris Catrakis (Univ of California Irvine, USA)
Prof. T Bott (The University of Birmingham, UK)
Prof. Petr Filip (Institute of Hydrodynamics, Prague, Czech Republic)
Prof. T.-W. Lee (Arizona State University, AZ, USA)
Prof. Le Yi Wang (Wayne State University, Detroit, USA)
Prof. George Stavrakakis (Technical University of Crete, Greece)
Prof. John K. Galiotos (Houston Community College, USA)
Prof. M. Petrakis (National Observatory of Athens, Greece)
Prof. Philippe Dondon (ENSEIRB, Talence, France)
Prof. Dalibor Biolek (Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic)
Prof. Oleksander Markovskyy (National Technical University of Ukraine, Ukraine)
Prof. Suresh P. Sethi (University of Texas at Dallas, USA)
Prof. Hartmut Hillmer(University of Kassel, Germany)
Prof. Bram Van Putten (Wageningen University, The Netherlands)
Prof. Alexander Iomin (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel)
Prof. Roberto San Jose (Technical University of Madrid, Spain)
Prof. Minvydas Ragulskis (Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania)
Prof. Arun Kulkarni (The University of Texas at Tyler, USA)
Prof. Joydeep Mitra (New Mexico State University, USA)
Prof. Vincenzo Niola (University of Naples Federico II, Italy)
Prof. Ion Chryssoverghi (National Technical University of Athens, Greece)
Prof. Dr. Aydin Akan (Istanbul University, Turkey)
Prof. Sarka Necasova (Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic)
Prof. C. D. Memos (National Technical University of Athens, Greece)
Prof. S. Y. Chen, (Zhejiang University of Technology, China and University of Hamburg,
Germany)
Prof. Duc Nguyen (Old Dominion University, Norfolk, USA)
Prof. Tuan Pham (James Cook University, Townsville, Australia)
Prof. Habil M. Patzold (Agder University College,Norway )
Prof. Jiri Klima (Technical Faculty of CZU in Prague, Czech Republic)
Prof. Rossella Cancelliere (University of Torino, Italy)
Prof. L.Kohout (Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, USA)
Prof. D' Attelis (Univ. Buenos Ayres, Argentina)
Prof. Dr-Eng. Christian Bouquegneau (Faculty Polytechnique de Mons, Belgium)
Prof. Wladyslaw Mielczarski (Technical University of Lodz, Poland)
Prof. Ibrahim Hassan (Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada)
Prof. Stavros J.Baloyannis (Medical School, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece)
Prof. James F. Frenzel (University of Idaho, USA)
Prof. Mirko Novak (Czech Technical University in Prague,Czech Republic)
Prof. Zdenek Votruba (Czech Technical University in Prague,Czech Republic)
Prof. Vilem Srovnal,(Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic)
Prof. J. M. Giron-Sierra (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain)
Prof. Zeljko Panian (University of Zagreb, Croatia)
Prof. Walter Dosch (University of Luebeck, Germany)
Prof. Rudolf Freund (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)
Prof. Erich Schmidt (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)
Prof. Alessandro Genco (University of Palermo, Italy)
Prof. Martin Lopez Morales (Technical University of Monterey, Mexico)
Prof. Ralph W. Oberste-Vorth (Marshall University, USA)
Prof. Vladimir Damgov (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria)
Prof. Menelaos Karanasos (Brunel University, UK)
Prof. P.Borne (Ecole Central de Lille, France)
Topics of Interest
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Educational Software and Development
Computers for Education
Distance Learning and Distance Teaching
Intelligent Robots as Teachers
Classroom Monitoring
New types of Examinations
Education Reforms
Continuous Collaboration of Industry and Education
Bridging the gap of Education and the Requirements of the Production
Multimedia for Education
Internet for Education
Web-based Education
E-School and E-University
E-Learning and E-Pedagogy
Educational Software and Development
Virtual school, Virtual Classroom
Synschronous and Non-Synchronous E-Learning
Impact of the E-Learning and Society
Distributed multimedia and Networks for education
Networking, Reliability aspects for Education
Privacy issues for education.
Distributed computing and distributed data bases for education.
Pricing and economic analysis of web-based systems for education.
Social and cultural impact of modern communications for education.
Basic Science in Engineering Education.
Continuing Education & Its Delivery.
International Recognition of Qualifications.
Studies in Engineering and the needs of the Production and Market.
Grants, Funds, Prizes and Projects for the New Educational Technologies
Globalization in education. Challenges and problems.
Web-Management of education.
Transfer of Know-how for educational technologies
Environment and educational technologies
Educational technologies for Women and Minorities
Educational technologies for People with Special Needs
Integration of Computers, Internet, Multimedia for Educational Purposes.
Changes and Challenges in Engineering Education.
Supervision and Re-Organization of Laboratories with New Technologies.
Management of Educational Institutes.
Psychological Aspects and Relations between lecturers and students.
Methodologies in examinations and relevant problems.
Examinations and Tests via Internet.
Awards and Education.
Educational Technology
Asynchronous Learning
Authoring Technology
Best Practices In ICT Classrooms
Constructivist Perspectives
Cooperative/Collaborative Learning
Data Mining Strategies For E-Learning Organizations
Diffusion Of Innovation
Distance and Open Learning
Educational Technology & Globalization
E-Portfolios
Human Resources In Educational Technology
Human-Computer Interaction
Hypermedia Applications
ICT Integration
ICT Literacy In Education
Improving Classroom Teaching
Innovation and Change In Education
Instructional Design
Intelligent E-Learning Systems
Intelligent Training Technology
Interactive E-Learning Systems
Interactive Learning Environment
Knowledge Management In E-Learning
Learning and Content Management Systems
Learning and Teaching With Technology
Learning Objects
Life Long Learning and Technology
Mobile Learning
Multimedia Applications
Network Based Education and Training
Pedagogical and Practical Issues
Professional Development & Teacher Training
Simulations in Education
Teaching/Learning Strategies
Video Games For Learning
Virtual Classroom, Virtual University
Resources and Funds in educational technologies.
Quality Assurance in educational technologies.
Promotion of the Cultural Heritage through educational technologies.
Election of Faculty Members via Web
Educational Textbooks through the WWW
Web voting, Web banking, E-democracy, E-commerce, E-health services
Location and Venue
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About Rhodes (Rodos) Island and Hotel
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The conference will take place at the Atrium Platinum Hotel, Illiados Street, Ixia Bay,
85100, Rhodes, Greece. A detailed guide with all the information that you need regarding the
location will be available on this page in the near future.
The island of Rhodes is shaped like a spearhead, 79.7 km (49.5 mi) long and 38 km (24 mi)
wide, with a total area of approximately 1,400 square kilometres (541 sq mi) and a coastline
of approximately 220 km (137 mi). The city of Rhodes is located at the northern tip of the
island, as well as the site of the ancient and modern commercial harbours. Outside of the
city of Rhodes, the island is dotted with small villages and beach resorts, among them
Faliraki, Lindos, Kremasti, Haraki, Pefkos, Archangelos, Afantou, Koskinou, Embona
(Attavyros), Paradisi, and Trianta (Ialysos).
In ancient times, Rhodes was home to one of the Seven Wonders of the World - the Colossus of
Rhodes. This giant bronze statue that once stood in the harbour was completed in 280 BC but
was destroyed in an earthquake in 224 BC. No trace of the statue remains today.
Historical sites on the island of Rhodes include the Acropolis of Lindos, the Acropolis of
Rhodes, the Temple of Apollo, ancient Ialysos, ancient Kamiros, the Governor's Palace, Rhodes
Old Town (walled medieval city), the Palace of the Grand Masters, Kahal Shalom Synagogue in
the Jewish Quarter, the Archaeological Museum, the ruins of the castle of Monolithos, the
castle of Kritinia and St. Catherine Hospice.
How to arrive
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There are daily boats from Pireaus that generally leave between the hours of 1pm and 6pm. You
can get a schedule in the Athens News which comes out every Friday with the weekly ferry
schedules and the Kathimerini Insert in the International Herald Tribune. If you are going
deck chances are you can get a ticket at the boat but it is best to book in advance so there
is no chance of being left behind. If you want a cabin, which is recommended since it is
about a 17 hour trip, then do it through your travel agent. The ferry makes stops at Patmos,
Kalymnos, Leros and Kos too or various combintaions of these islands. There are infrequent
connections to Santorini, Mykonos, Crete and some other islands but not every day. The most
popular boat is the Blue Star which takes about 13 to 15 hours they say. In past seasons
there has been a once a week ferry to Samos, Chios, Lesvos, Limnos and Thessaloniki. If you
are just interested in getting ferry tickets to Rhodes read the article on ferries at
www.greecetravel.com/tickets and you will find a link to Dolphin Hellas Ticketing.
There are ferries and excursions boats that go to the nearby islands of Simi, Kastelorizo,
Kos, Kalymnos, Patmos, Tilos and Leros and these are usually highspeeds. You can do daytrips
to the closer islands or overnight trips or even bounce your way back to Pireaus if the
schedules work in your favor. These boats leave from Mandraki harbor and you can go there and
get schedules or arrange trips through one of the local travel agents. There are also cruises
to Lindos (highspeed or slow boat, take your pick) and other places around the island.
There are several daily flights from Athens and three flights a week from Santorini (maybe).
Most people fly to Rhodes rather than lose a day (a night actually) on the ferry. In the
summer it is tough to get on the flight you want and you may have to settle for the flight
that has availability. You can book flights to Rhodes through the travel agent that books
your hotels or through Dolphin Hellas Ticketing at www.greecetravel.com/tickets
The town of Marmaris, Turkey is about an hour's journey from Rhodes and there are daily
boats. You can get information in the port or through one of the island ticket agencies.
There will probably be brochures on trips to Turkey in your hotel lobby. A hydrofoil runs
between Fethiye and Rhodes in July and August daily, except Saturday. The trip takes 1.5
hours. Another hydrofoil leaves Mondays and Fridays from Bodrum to Rhodes from June to
September and takes 2 hours and 15 minutes.
Rhodes is featured on the itinerary of many cruises originating in Greece and some from other
countries as well. The ships generally arrive in the morning and leave in the evening, giving
the passengers an entire day to see the city and even take a taxi out to Lindos or the Valley
of the Butterflies. Though the cruise companies provide excursions, these can be slow going
because of the number of people and I recommend getting a couple friends together and doing a
private taxi tour with Nick Axarlis and his brother Michalis the popular taxi drivers of
Rhodes
For information on cruises see www.greecetravel.com/cruise
The best way to visit Rhodes is by working with a travel agency who can get good rates at
hotels while working with you to choose the hotel that suits your personality, budget or
other situation. They can also arrange your flights and ferries so that you can make the most
of your time instead of you trying to book everything on your own and hoping for the best.
Our trip was handled by Fantasy Travel and I highly recommend them. They have programs to
Rhodes in combination with other islands or on it's own or you can work with them on your own
itinerary. For transportation and accommodation see Fantasy Travel at
www.fantasytravelofgreece.com
If you want to visit Rhodes along with other islands and/or the mainland you can see what is
possible and get rates at www.greecetravel.com/create-
For transfers from the airport or the port to and from hotels or anywhere on the island see
www.greecetravel.com/rhodes/
More details
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The 2013 International Conference on Education and Educational Technologies
July 16-19, 2013, Rhodes (Rodos) Island, Greece
http://www.europment.org/
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