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71 Social Education and 13. Towards a Ministry of The Greek educational system is permeated by a tree-structured Partly The Ministry of 0.010 0.003 1. lack of long term finance for the
Infrastructur training paperless Education & administrative hierarchy starting at the Ministry level, through the regional Education and support of the infrastructure
e e-gov model for Religious and prefectural authority levels, down to the school (leaf) level. Religious Affairs 2. complex and fragmented legal
The educational community currently consists of 14.000 public schools,
school and Affairs 150.000 permanent teachers and 1.400.000 students, in primary and has recently and regulatory framework that
teacher secondary education. adopted ‘myschool’ relates to the administration of
management The aim of the project is twofold: (http://myschool.sc education
a) To provide full informatization in order to cover the needs of all levels of h.gr) as the official 3. lack of long-term planning and
the afore-mentioned hierarchy with respect to every-day administrative information system commitment on behalf of decision
support, and that mainly makers
b) To further develop digital workflows (as opposed to current exchange of provides support to
documents) for all inter-level and intra-level communication/administration of all Greek schools
educational entities, under the e-gov paradigm. regarding the
management of
This effort should be further extended to all public administration entities
providing and/or receiving data to/from schools in order to eventually students, teachers
achieve a paperless, transparent and efficient administration in the and curricula. The
educational community. proposed project is
a straight-forward
extension of
‘myschool’.


72 Social Education and 14. The Ministry of The project aims to a) standardize and b) then collect (and verify) in No 0.010 0.002 Involvement of a high number of
Infrastructur training development of Education & a single repository the academic qualifications (degrees of all legal entities (universities,
e a repository for Religious academic ranks, foreign language certificates, etc.) of all Greek education/training providers, etc.)
academic Affairs (eventually, European) citizens. Such an action should significantly
qualifications of facilitate the exchange of information among administrative
all citizens transactions (e.g. applications for various positions) while canceling
the need for the candidate’s physical presence and ensuring
information validity. It is further expected to yield a reduction in
bureaucratic costs related to the mobility of professionals.

The repository is expected to be distributed geographically to each
member state and “certification” should be provided to any legal
entity in the form of web services.





73 Social Education and 15. Connecting Ministry of A project combining Vocational Education and Training (VET) that takes Yes Part of the national 0.200 0.15 Barriers: a) Coordination problems,
Infrastructur training VET & work- Education & place in classrooms (in secondary and post-secondary level) with worked- strategic policy leading to possible delays. b) Need
e based learning Religious based learning that occurs at workplaces. framework for for accreditation of work-based
Affairs Benefits: increasing the learning.
quality and
a. strengthen cooperation between education and business, efficiency of VET Solutions: a) A project management
b. link VET with labour market needs: produce higher-quality skills that are unit will supervise the
more relevant to real work, project’s planning and
c. increase the link between learners and the labour market and so improve implementation under the close
their chances of getting a job after they complete their training, supervision of the Ministry of
d. involve employers in designing VET, thus increasing their confidence in Education and Religious Affairs. b)
the system, EOPPEP, the National
e. use of plant and equipment on employer premises for training and so
reduce the need to purchase expensive training equipment for public VET Organisation for the Certification of
schools. Qualifications and Vocational
Guidance, that operates under the
supervision of the Greek Minister of
Education & Religious Affairs,
develops and implements
comprehensive national systems
for the accreditation of non-formal
& informal learning.
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