Greece

For 2025, the Commission approved the following 19 reform support projects for Greece:

• Establishment of a Demographic Observatory
• Preparing regions for demographic change: diagnostic, regional policy and governance
• Supporting the implementation of the risk-based food inspections reform in Greece
• Greece’s alignment with the EU Migration and Asylum Pact
• Reform design of concurrent payment systems for payroll tax and social security contributions
• Enhancing the capacity of the Hellenic Centre for Defence Innovation
• Future-ready skills and rebranding civil service
• ESTER: National Plan for the implementation of NZIA
• Reform of the child protection system and the child rights monitoring system in Greece
• Technical support for a green and smart electricity system in Greece

Multi-country projects:

• Strengthening Supervisory Capacity in Innovative Digital Finance
• Supporting Digital Transformation in Competition Law Enforcement
• EU Public Leadership Program
• Improving capacity in Member States to effectively implement the Pillar 2 Directive (Directive 2022/2523)
• AI4SMARTAUDIT - AI for EU Funds audit
• Leveraging social economy, social entrepreneurship and social structures and developing networking for local development and demographic reversal
• Upgrading employment service delivery in Greece, including through the use of Artificial Intelligence
• ProdTool - NPB 2.0: Micro-Data Analysis Tool 2.0 for comparative productivity studies at National Productivity Boards
• Flagship: EU Supervisory Digital Finance Academy

For 2024, the Commission approved the following 23 reform support projects for Greece:

• Advancing the accrual accounting reform in Greece
• Developing a well-round policy framework for the integration of AI in teaching and learning in primary and secondary education: fostering the development of future-oriented skills and competences
• Enhancing the capacity of the Coordinating Mechanism supporting the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
• Facilitating the social integration and independence of young people in Greece
• Introducing data analytics and AI capacity for tax and customs risk management in Greece to enhance fraud detection
• Promoting the integration of AI Technologies in the Greek Public Administration
• Reception and integration reforms for migrants, especially UAMs
• Redesigning the framework for Independent Oversight Authorities (and Committees) in Greece”
• Reorganization of MoMAIP / Hellenic Coast Guard structure to adapt in technological change and crisis management challenges
• Strengthening Greece’s resilience, preparedness, and crisis response capacity
• Strengthening the national framework for the implementation of the EU HTA Regulation 2021/2282: capacity building and harmonization
• Supporting the reduction of backlog in the First Instance Courts of Athens and Thessaloniki (pilot courts)
• Technical support for the implementation and application of Union legislation on railway safety and interoperability in Greece

Multi-country projects:

• PACE – Creating a modern public administration through cooperation
• Boosting the cooperation on the usage of distributional impact assessment through microsimulation
• Capacity enhancement for CCPs authorisation, supervision, recovery, and resolution
• Enhancing the Centre of Government’s capacities to steer complex priorities and manage crisis and megatrends through peer to peer review and learning
• Enhancing the National Strategy for preventing and combating irregularities and fraud affecting the financial interests of the European Union over the period 2021-2027
• Fighting bid rigging in public procurement: improving compliance and competition for public contracts
• Gender mainstreaming in public policy and budgeting in Greece
• Strengthening social protection capacity and enhancing the labour market integration of the Minimum Income Scheme (MIS) beneficiaries by the application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to the labour market supply and demand matching
• Social Climate Plan for Greece and implementation of the EU Emission Trading System
• Strengthening the green budgeting reform in Greece

For 2023, the Commission approved the following 19 reform support projects for Greece:

• Institutionalizing Behavioral Science for Policy Making to Improve Reform Efforts in Greece
• Task Force against disinformation
• Towards person-centered integrated care
• Driving transformational change of the EKDDA
• Implementation Study, Design, and Deployment of project finance capabilities with an emphasis on sustainable infrastructure for the Hellenic Development Bank (HDB)
• Implementation of the BIM Roadmap in Greece, including pilot projects.
• Capacity building on advanced data-driven approaches and tools for risk assessment and tax audits Greece
• Professionalisation of public procurement personal - fostering strategic methodologies, integrity and transparency
• Developing smart schools: how to increase the efficiency of investments in digital education
• Industrial Ecosystems - Supporting the Implementation of the Greek National Industrial Strategy

Multi-country projects:

• PACE - Civil service mobility
• PACE - Modernisation of the human resources management model
• Enhance strategic tax administration reforms through Tax Administration Diagnostic Assessment Tool in Greece
• ESG risk management framework for the financial sector
• Strengthening the capacity of Independent Fiscal Institutions (IFIs)
• Improve the quality of multi-level governance and strengthening the resilience of island economies of Croatia, Greece and Sweden
• Industrial ecosystems
• Proof of concept of AI models in market abuse monitoring
• Measuring Citizen’s Satisfaction with Key Government Services for Better Performance and Enhanced Trust
• Developing in-house capacity for Latvia and other Member States

In 2022, the Commission approved 19 reform projects for Greece:

• Development of a National Strategy for Quality Assurance, Patient safety and Patient Engagement in Healthcare Services Provision
• Capacity building to the Ministry for Climate Crisis and Civil Protection: Coordinating Emergency preparedness, response and Climate Change adaptation actions
• Facilitate the deployment of the next generation of digital Public Services for citizens and businesses
• Upgrading property valuation system in rural areas
• Bridging the climate financing gap with public policy instruments
• Greening taxes – applying the polluter pays principle in practice
• Support to the Implementation of the Just Transition
• Regional and local authorities – Enhancing cooperation & Quality of public administration- Improve coordination and quality in the regulatory cycle by introducing forward looking, effective legislative practices
• Implementation of the European Child Guarantee
• Support to Greece's tourism ecosystem: towards a more sustainable, resilient and digital tourism
• Recharge and Refuel - Clean, smart and fair urban mobility
• Implementation of the European Child Guarantee - Promoting Inclusive Education in Greece Phase II
• Support on the implementation of a national skills framework for learning pathways
• Strengthening HRM, multilevel governance and innovation in the public administration at all levels

Multi-country projects:

• EU Supervisory Digital Finance Academy - Bank of Greece
• EU Supervisory Digital Finance Academy - HCMC
• Gender mainstreaming in public policy and budget processes
• Technical support for the establishment of a permanent procedure for integration of third country nationals through the labor market
• Support to REPowerEU
• Building capacity for evidence-informed policymaking in governance and public administration in a post-pandemic Europe

More information can be found in the 2022 Country Factsheets.