The Master's thesis, as well as any assignment submitted for a course, must be the work of the student who submits it. Plagiarism is a serious academic offence.

Plagiarism consists in particular of copying, in whole or in part, the work of another person, verbatim or paraphrased, published or unpublished, in print or electronic form, without accurate and clear reference to the source. Submitting work written entirely by another person, with or without payment, as well as writing work using AI, are also considered forms of plagiarism.

Plagiarism check – Procedure

All work produced within the Programme (course assignments, Master's theses and articles for publication) must undergo a plagiarism check using approved software.

Responsibility for carrying out the check, examining the results and assessing them academically lies with the thesis Supervisor or the instructor responsible for the course.

For the use of Turnitin, Supervisors and course instructors are referred to the official instructions of the NKUA Library:
https://www.lib.uoa.gr/ypiresies/apotropi-logoklopis-turnitin.html

The Draft Coach service, available through Google Docs to holders of an NKUA institutional account, is supportive and educational in nature and may be used by students on drafts of their work. Its use does not replace the mandatory plagiarism check carried out within the Programme.

A proper assessment of the results requires the check to be reviewed within the Turnitin platform, where the sources can be viewed and evaluated. Sending a static similarity report alone is not sufficient for the academic assessment of the check.

The Programme Secretariat provides technical support for the procedure but has no role in the academic assessment. For this reason, it does not hold personal access credentials for Turnitin.

Scheduling the presentation of a Master's thesis requires explicit confirmation from the Supervisor that a plagiarism check has been carried out and that the thesis is considered acceptable.

The similarity percentage produced by the detection software is not in itself a criterion of plagiarism. The final assessment is made by the Supervisor or the course instructor, after examining the nature and extent of the similarities.