08 - Greece - Financial support for students
University textbooks are provided to all students of higher education free of charge.
Many students, depending on their family and personal income, may have their living and
accommodation expenses covered while undergraduate students making their studies in a city other
than that where they live permanently may be granted an accommodation allowance.
In particular,
based on the new law-framework of 2007 on Higher Education, it is provided that reciprocating
scholarships will be given to graduate and post graduate students, with the only obligation –on part of
the students- to offer part time work, up to fourty (40) hours a month, to services of the University or
TEI. Moreover, based on the same clauses of said law, students facing financial problems have the
right to take interest-free student loans from Greek credit institutions of their selection, provided they
have successfully passed the exams for all the obligatory classes of the semester previous to the
current and they have not exceeded their maximum time of studies. All students, whether
undergraduate or postgraduate, are also entitled to free health care until the end of their studies.
In addition, all undergraduate and postgraduate students are granted special student cards so as to
get reduced prices in all public transportation means and in museums, theatres, art galleries and
special artistic events. Further, student loans may be also granted mainly to postgraduate students, as
the case may be.
Scholarships are granted by the State Scholarships Foundation (Idryma Kratikon Ypotrophion - IKY) to
undergraduate students having received excellent marks in universities and technological education
institutes and to those students wishing to pursue postgraduate studies in Hellas and abroad and have
sat successfully for special exams held for this purpose. In addition, IKY grants selectively scholarships
for Postgraduate research in Greece Concurrently, a certain number of scholarships, allowances and financial aids
are offered to students and institutions of all education levels through various legacies and donations
from individuals and legal entities of private law.
At the same time, in the context of the Operational Programme for Education and Initial Vocational
Training (EPEAEK-II), postgraduate research and, in general, research work by universities and TEIs
is financed selectively in sectors of top priority for Greece (“Heraclitus” and “Pythagoras” programmes
for Universities, “Archimedes” programme for TEI).
Institutions:
Ministry of National Education and Religious Affairs (YPEPTH)
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Date: 2009
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