The Hellenic Mediterranean University is an evolution of the Technological Educational Institute of Crete, which was a public academic institution of Greece, based in Heraklion, Crete, and with branches in Chania, Rethimno, Agios Nikolaos, Ierapetra and Sitia. It was founded in 1983 in Heraklion and belonged to the Tertiary Technological Education since 1983 and to the Higher Education since 2001. Mission of the Technological Educational Institute of Crete was Higher Education in a range of specialties, Postgraduate Education, research, and direct contribution to the development of Crete and Greece through Lifelong Learning, technological and consulting services and know-how transfer. In Hellenic Mediterranean University, the Tourism and Entrepreneurship laboratory has been operating since 2015, which has undertaken and implemented, during these few years, a series of projects, both at local- regional and European level.
