The Hosting Institutions of the NiDS2025 Conference are the University of West Attica (UNIWA) and the Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB).

University of West Attica

UNIWA is the third largest university in the country with regards to the number of undergraduate students (in regular season), whereas it hosts over 50,000 students in total.

The University of West Attica is the third largest in the country in terms of student numbers. It has approximately 52,000 undergraduate, 1,150 postgraduate and 210 doctoral students. UNIWA is expanded to three Campuses within the metropolitan region of ​​Athens, including twenty-seven departments, organized into six Schools, covering a wide range of disciplines. The School of Public Health, the School of Management, Economics and Social Sciences, the School of Food Sciences, the School of Health and Welfare Sciences, the School of Applied Arts and Culture and the School of Engineering.  UNIWA aims to meet the educational, social, cultural, and developmental needs of the country, the scientific fields it serves, in addition to promoting research and disseminating innovative scientific knowledge and technical expertise.

Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB)

The Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB) is the premier Economics and Business University in Greece and the third oldest University in the country.

The Athens University of Economics and Business is the premier Economics and Business University in Greece and the third oldest University in the country. It’s 3 Schools, comprising 8 Departments, offer state-of-the-art studies in areas such as Economics, International Relations, Management, Accounting, Marketing, Informatics and Statistics.

The University offers 30 Masters programs, many of which taught entirely in English, attracting students from both Greece and abroad. In addition, AUEB attracts more than 250 Erasmus+ students per year, ranking the University as second in Greece in terms of its percentage of incoming international Erasmus+ students. The high quality of staff, many of whom have been educated abroad, and the campus location in downtown Athens make for an international institution at the forefront of regional and global education and research.