The Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences (Greek: Πάντειον Πανεπιστήμιο Κοινωνικών και Πολιτικών Επιστημών), usually referred to simply as the Panteion University, is a university located in Athens, Greece. Founded in 1927, it is among the three oldest universities of political sciences in Europe. The university consists of ten academic departments which function as independent academic units: The Panteion University has a long history of a creative development linked not only to the course of higher education and the development of social sciences in Greece, but also to the wider social transformation of the country. It was founded in 1927 under the name School of Political Sciences, due to the envisagement of two persons who had studied at the Free School of Political Sciences in Paris, Georgios Fragoudis and Alexandros Pantos. Pavlos Kountouriotis, the President of Greece at the time, inaugurated the central building of the University, which functioned for the first time on November 18, 1930, attended by 200 students.