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Eurydice

EACEA National Policies Platform:Eurydice

Key features of the education system

The provision of free of charge education for all citizens and at all levels of the public education system is a constitutional principle of the Greek State.

The Greek educational system is centralised. National laws, presidential decrees and ministerial acts lay out the overall educational strategy and key objectives of the education system. 

General higher education policy objectives

In Greece, the state offers public pre-school and primary education free of charge in:

National Specificities of the Education System

2026

There were no reforms in the area of  vocational education and training and adult learning during the reporting period.

2025

Validation of professional competences

In the ‘ValiKom’ collaborative project, funded by the federal ministry of education, a total of 17 Chambers of Industry and Commerce (IHKs), 13 Chambers of Crafts (HWKs) and 2 Chambers of Agriculture (LWKs) developed and tested a procedure for validating informally and non-formally acquired vocational competences between 2015 and 2024.

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