Technological Educational Institute of Piraeus Applied Sciences offers several approved graduate courses independently or in cooperation with universities and abroad. The university campus is in a grove 100,000 sq.m in the wider area which housed the Academy of Plato. The facilities are near the port of Piraeus with bus services and metro connection to the metropolitan area of Athens. Technological Educational Institute of Piraeus The Piraeus University of Applied Sciences (, A.E.I. Πειραιά Τ.Τ.), also known as Technological Education Institute of Piraeus (TEIPIR), is a public higher education institute supervised by the Ministry of Education and Research. It was created by a special law in
Piraeus Lion Swedish Museum of National Antiquities in Stockholm. The lion was originally sculpted in about 360 BC, and became a famous landmark in Piraeus, having stood there since the 1st or 2nd century AD. Its prominence was such that the port eventually became referred to in Italian as Porto Leone ("Lion Port") as the port's original name ceased to be used. It is depicted in a sitting pose, with a hollow throat and the mark of a pipe (now lost) running down its back; this suggests that it was originally used as a fountain. This is consistent with the description of