The purpose of the project is to upgrade the knowledge and skills of unemployed people and private-sector employees and/or to reskill them. Specifically, the project aims to help beneficiaries acquire and/or update and upgrade their professional knowledge and skills, and to obtain the corresponding certification, so that they can meet the current demands of the labour market in sectors of the economy with growth prospects.
The project forms part of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan "Greece 2.0", funded by the European Union – NextGenerationEU, which comprises an integrated and coherent set of reforms and investments organised into four (4) pillars made up of eighteen (18) components. This project falls under the third (3) pillar: Employment, Skills and Social Cohesion, and specifically under component 3.2: Strengthening the digital capabilities of education and modernising vocational education and training, and under Action 16913 "New strategy for lifelong learning & the national upskilling system".
The project is delivered through Training Vouchers and Certification Vouchers.
The implementing body is DYPA, and delivery follows the provisions of DYPA Board Decision no. 1675/70/07.07.2025 (Government Gazette B' 3533) and Decision no. 110612 EX 2025/26.06.25 (ADA: RB2OI-X5T) of the Alternate Minister of National Economy and Finance on the "Inclusion of the project 'Grant to DYPA for the delivery of the project: Upskilling and reskilling programmes in high-demand sectors, focusing on digital, green and financial literacy skills, for unemployed and employed beneficiaries' (MIS RRF code 5226310) in the Recovery and Resilience Facility under Action ID 16913 — New strategy for lifelong learning & the national upskilling system".
Scope of the programme
Under this call, up to 170,461 beneficiaries are to be trained in Continuing Vocational Training programmes for the development of digital, "green" and financial literacy skills.
The scope covers the provision of theoretical training services leading to certification of knowledge and skills, addressed to unemployed beneficiaries registered in the DYPA Digital Register and to private-sector employees aged over 18.
Specifically, the services provided under this programme comprise:
- Theoretical training programmes of 150 hours leading to the acquisition of digital and "green" knowledge and skills, together with financial literacy skills (through the provision of a Training Voucher)
- Certification of the knowledge and skills acquired through the above training programmes (through the provision of a Certification Voucher)
For further information, please visit:
https://www.dypa.gov.gr/proghrammata-katartisis-ghia-to-tamio-anakampsis
