New VET model for Greece

Greece has had a VET system since the 1950s but it lacks essential features of dual voca­tio­nal training. All theo­re­ti­cal and practical voca­tio­nal training takes place in voca­tio­nal schools set up for this purpose and is heavily theory-based. Vocational training is currently not yet seen as an alter­na­ti­ve to attending a school leading to a higher education entrance qualification.

This project supports the Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs in Greece in designing, imple­men­ting and testing the new model of “Epaggelmatiko Lykeio” (EPAL) schools (upper secondary voca­tio­nal schools). In the spirit of other European Centres of Vocational Excellence (CoVEs), these model EPAL schools aim to establish a strategic and syste­ma­tic dialogue with social partners and to improve the quality of education (e.g. through pilot curricula and modern teaching methods). Support services in the project include research on the current situation of EPAL schools, analysis of good European approa­ches (espe­ci­al­ly on the invol­vement of social partner orga­ni­sa­ti­ons in VET), ela­bo­ra­ti­on of recom­men­da­ti­ons and support to the first pilot year of EPAL model schools.
PPMI (LT) acts as coor­di­na­tor, 3s (Karin Luomi-Messerer, Mariya Dzhengozova) is respon­si­ble for analysing good practice approa­ches to the design and imple­men­ta­ti­on of Centres of Vocational Excellence (CoVEs) and similar initiatives.