iLEADS Laboratory represents a powerful team of highly qualified, inventive and enterprising people. We aim to develop new knowledge and share our expertise through solid collaborations with industry and business, the public sector and other higher education institutions. We believe that an equal and inclusive workplace can produce significant research work based upon diverse backgrounds. Our main goal is to construct and disseminate a broad knowledge of the functional areas of strategic leadership and a deep understanding of the multiple and diverse tools and methodologies that digital transformation offers in a modern and globalized economic environment.
The University of Piraeus was founded as a "School of Industrial Studies" in 1938 by the Association of Industrialists and Craftsmen, in accordance with the Law N.5197/1931 and the A.N. 28/1936, in association with the Federation of Public Limited Companies Greece intending to provide economic, legal and technical education to industrial executives.