Located in Athens Greece, The University of West Attica (UNIWA) was founded in 2018 as a result of a merger between the Technological Educational Institute of Athens and Piraeus University of Applied Sciences. UNIWA includes twenty-seven departments, organized into six Schools: 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 has approximately 52,000 undergraduates, 1,150 postgraduates and 210 doctoral students. UNIWA and MTA signed a memorandum of understanding to promote cooperation between the institutions in teaching, research, joint programs and academic exchanges.