Level: Regional / Local
Beneficiates: Unemployed people
Provided Services / Key Activities:
KE.SY.P.’s main aim is to provide students of secondary education with counselling serv-
ices, to expand the Educational and Career Counselling institution in regional level and to
help the individuals (students in secondary and tertiary education) to realize their capabili-
ties and to be placed uneventfully into the social and educational environment and into large
social groups (schools, students of secondary and tertiary education, parents of students,
teachers etc.).
C. Offices of Academic & Career Information Services – Tertiary Education
These offices are founded in the Universities’ departments or in the Technological Edu-
cational Institutes all around Greece. They are the responsible offices in order to provide
their students with multiple services in education, training and employment, information
concerning career development and evolution, counselling and social support. All of them
are staffed by career counsellors, psychologists and special trained employees. More infor-
mation about them can be found in the sites of universities or technological institutes, e.g.
http://career.admin.uoi.gr/
1.5.3 Independent Public Institutions
A. National Resource Centre of Vocational Guidance – E.K.E.P.
(www.ekep.gr)
EKEP is established in the year 2000 under the supervision of the Ministry of Employ-
ment Labour & Social Protection and the Ministry of National Education & Religious Af-
fairs, the National Resource Centre for Vocational Guidance – Euroguidance Centre of
Greece (EKEP- NRCVG) is a Private Law Body Corporate pursuant to Law 2525/97 and
Presidential Decree 232/98 (Government Gazette 179A/29-7-1998). EKEP is governed by
a nine-member Board of Directors consisting of representatives from the two supervis-
ing Ministries, the Pedagogical Institute, the Greek Manpower Employment Organization
(OAED) and social partners. On a national level, EKEP is body for the coordination, sup-
port, certification and enhancement of the actions taken by those offering Counselling and
Vocational Guidance services in education, training and employment. In addition, EKEP is
an information resource centre for education and vocational guidance. In view of its role,
EKEP cares for the development of a unified strategy with respect to the aims and orienta-
tion of Vocational Guidance in Greece.