In Greece, education is provided free of charge at all three levels of education, primary, secondary and higher education, and is funded primarily through the state budget and resources of the Ministry of Education, Religious Affairs & Sports (YPAITHA). The state budget consists of two parts: 

• the Ordinary Budget covering operating expenses and the
• Public Investment Budget  that finances Public Investment Program (PIP) for the country's development policy with projects that contribute to its growth and modernization on a long-term basis, covering infrastructure costs (buildings, equipment, co-financed actions, etc.). 

The PIP is divided into the national part financed from purely national resources and the co-financed part financed from national and EU resources. L. 4635/2019 4635/2019 established the National Development Program (PSC) for the monitoring and control of the interventions financed from the national resources of the Public Investment Program (PIP). The Ministry of Education prepares the Sectoral Development Program (TPA) in its area of responsibility and thus can plan on time the projects that correspond to its policies as well as finance them. The Sectoral Development Program of YPAITHA was approved and activated on July 26, 2021 and its programming period has a duration of five years. 

Adult education and training is also funded through the state budget and resources of the Ministry of Education, Religious Affairs and Sports with the largest share being covered by the co-financed part of the PIP through the implementation of the NSRF operational programs.

Early childhood education and care is provided in infant care (vrefikoi stathmoi), infant/child care (vrefonipiakoi stathmoi) and child care centres (paidikoi stathmoi)  which fall under the competence of local authorities, supervised by the Ministry of Interior. Child care settings are funded mainly from the state budget through resources of the Ministry of Interior allocated for this purpose in the Municipalities of the country. Also, l. 4941/2022 provides for a financial support program to help families have access to pre-school education and care services. The program provides for quality care and hospitality services for infants, toddlers and children, through the granting of vouchers. The program is implemented by the Hellenic Association for Local Development and Self-Government (EETAA SA) and is financed by national and EU resources of the co-financed Regional Operational Programs of the NSRF 2021-2027.
Private expenditure on education covers tuition fees for educational services provided by private schools, which operate in parallel to Primary and Secondary Education public schools. It also covers private education offered by private Higher Vocational Training Institutes (SAEK) and Colleges in adult education and private settings of early childhood education and care. Household expenses cover, on one hand, the cost for tutorial services provided by private institutions, which offer parallel teaching of school subjects and foreign language courses and on the other hand, the cost for private tuition or other privately instructed activities.

The table below shows the total allocation for funding education included in the ordinary budget and the Program of Public Investment for the financial years 2023, 2024 and 2025 at current prices:

TOTAL APPROPRIATION

 Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs: Public Expenditure on Education (in bn. Euros)

The tables below show in detail the distribution of costs at each educational level according to the appropriations entered in the Ordinary and the Public Investment budget:

Lifelong Learning

Source: State budget 2023, 2024, 2025

The table below shows the budget of the Ministry’s Sectoral Development Program which amounts to six hundred and twenty (620) million euros, according to the approved National Development Program for the years 2021-2025:

Source:  : Sectoral Development Program