Meals
In all the cities where the DUTH is located, student restaurants operate, providing breakfast, lunch and dinner and are open daily, and during weekends and holidays, from 1st September to 30th June of each academic year, except for the Christmas and Easter holidays as specified in the academic calendar.
Applications for free meals are submitted exclusively electronically to the special information system of the electronic student secretariat: https://students.duth.gr during the periods announced by the Academic Affairs Directorate. The relevant expense is covered entirely by the regular budget of the university.
Contact: The relevant Student Affairs Department
Alexandroupolis, tath@alex.duth.gr, 2551030965-30973
Accommodation in student dormitories
DUTH has the ability to provide free accommodation to a certain number of students in each city. This number depends on the available infrastructure or the amount of the relevant funds available.
More specifically, DUTH has student accommodation in Komotini, Xanthi, Kavala and Orestiada. In the remaining cities, Alexandroupolis, Didymoteicho and Drama, where there is no such accommodation available, the University rents rooms in hotels and rental room complexes after a public tender. Finally, in the city of Xanthi there is the EKTENEPOL Hostel, which is intended to meet the needs of PhD candidates of the Departments of the School of Engineering, guests of the Erasmus+ program and guests of summer schools or international collaborations, etc.
The majority owner of the building facilities of all student dormitories is the Democritus University of Thrace. The managing organisation for the student dormitories of the cities of Komotini and Xanthi is the Youth and Lifelong Learning Foundation, while for the remaining dormitories it is the Democritus University of Thrace.
Applications for free accommodation are submitted exclusively electronically to the special information system, during the periods announced by the Directorate of Academic Affairs.
More information on the procedure and conditions for housing can be found in the relevant Regulations of Annex 21, which are part of the Internal Regulations of the university (Government Gazette 4751/Β΄/20-08-2024) Annex 21 Student Dormitory Regulations
1. Student Accommodation Regulations
2. Special Operating Regulations of the EKTENEPOL Xanthi Hostel for Doctoral Candidates.
3. Special Operating Regulations of the EKTENEPOL Xanthi Hostel for Guests
Detailed instructions for applying can be found in the relevant online app.
Contact the Competent Department of Student Affairs, as below:
tath@alex.duth.gr 2551030973 and 30965
Housing allowance
According to the current legislation, undergraduate students of Higher Educational Institutions and Higher Ecclesiastical Academies, Greek citizens or citizens of other countries of the European Union, are granted an annual housing allowance equal to one thousand five hundred (1,500) euros. The allowance is set at the amount of two thousand (2,000) euros exclusively for beneficiaries who study at a higher education institution outside the Attica Region or the Thessaloniki Regional Unit.
In the case of a student who cohabits with another undergraduate university student who is studying to obtain a first degree and has not exceeded the duration of study in terms of the semesters required to obtain the degree, according to the curriculum, and provided that the Departments/Schools of study of the student and the cohabiting student are located in the same city or regional unit, an annual housing allowance equal to two thousand (2,000) euros is granted. Exclusively in the case of a beneficiary who studies at a university outside the Attica Region or the Regional Unit of Thessaloniki and cohabits with another student in the same rented residence, the allowance is set at the amount of two thousand five hundred (2,500) euros in accordance with the terms and conditions referred to in the relevant Joint Ministerial Decisions.
Applications for the housing allowance are submitted within a deadline, from 1st to 30th June of each year, unless otherwise specified by a circular of the Ministry of Education, Religious Affairs and Sports, through an Electronic Application where the terms, conditions and the application submission procedure are described in detail.
Contact: To the relevant Student Welfare Department
Alexandroupolis, tath@alex.duth.gr 2551030965-30973
Institutional framework:
Law 5094/2024 (Article 205) Increase in student housing allowance
