The Technological Educational Institute (TEI) of Central Greece (Greek: ) was a university founded in 2013, had a main campus in the City of Lamia, Phthiotis, Central Greece, and four branch campuses. An institution of higher education of the State University System of Greece, having full self governance and functions under the supervision of the Ministry of Education, laws 2916 on 11-6-2001 and 3549 on 20-3-2007. The Technological Institute of Central Greece has abolished on 29 January 2019 and ceased to be a university in its own name status by an Act of Hellenic Parliament, Law 4589/29-1-2019. Educational departments absorbed by the Agricultural University of Athens (AUA), National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), University of Thessaly (UTH).
It offered 4-year (full-time) undergraduate degree programs with awarded qualification (latinised: Ptychion), in line with the Bologna process legally equivalent to a Bachelor's degree, and 1½ years, one-and-a-half-year full-time or 3-year part-time, postgraduate degree programs with awarded qualification , postgraduate specialised diploma, legally equivalent to a Master's degree. Postgraduate programs have statutory tuition fees. The undergraduate degree studies was previously 3½ years, three-and-a-half-year (law 1404/24-11-1983, 1983–1995) confers a legally equivalent to an Ordinary Bachelor’s degree (Ord). The Centre of Continuing Education and Lifelong Learning (KEDiViM; ), is a separate continuing and professional adult educational unit within Technological Educational Institute (TEI) of Central Greece offers Lifelong Learning short-term courses, at non-formal education, with tuition fee at on-campus or off-campus online by Distance e-Learning Mode mediated via in real time computer-mediated communication. It is certified by the National Organization for the Certification of Qualifications and Vocational Guidance (EOPPEP; Greek: ; Ε.Ο.Π.Π.Ε.Π.).
History
In 1994, the Technological Educational Institute (TEI) of Larissa in the City of Lamia constituent campus was separated from TEI of Larissa and it founded as the TEI of Lamia, a new independent Technological Education Institution (TEI) in its own right granting its own degrees. In 2013, TEI of Lamia and the TEI of Chalkida agreed to a merger, Presidential Decree 100, Government Gazette 135/Α/5-6-2013. The founded institution was named TEI of Central Greece with the City of Lamia campus becoming the university's main campus. As the European Union determined, in October 2017 the Ministry of Education specified all TEIs will be merged with the corresponding universities and each TEI department will be absorbed by a corresponding department. On January 17, 2019 the Hellenic Parliamentary Committee Session has voted the submitting draft law on December 28, 2018 and corresponding law 4589 has been published on the Government Gazette 13/Α/29-1-2019.
The TEI of Central Greece abolished and ceased to be operated, which enrolled its final last cohort of students in fall 2018 (2018–2019 academic year). Subsequently, the Departments of Computer Science, Electronic Engineering, Nursing, Physiotherapy, were incorporated into the University of Thessaly (UTH), and the TEI of Central Greece main campus in the City of Lamia was incorporated into the University of Thessaly constituent campus in the City of Lamia (that was formerly the main campus of the University of Central Greece (UCG) existed from 2003 to 2013) and became its campus part. The campus has, since the integration, been located into two parts, on the North Site and on the South Site in what has since become the main campus of the University of Thessaly in the City of Lamia. University of Thessaly in the City of Lamia, also University of Thessaly, City of Lamia (or UTH City of Lamia), is regarded as the University of Thessaly's southernmost branch campus at the time of its founding in 2013.