DYPA: New workforce green skills scheme to increase from 50,000 to 75,000 after record interest

The increase in the number of employees who will participate in the new program for acquiring and upgrading green skills from 50,000 to 75,000 was decided by the management of Public Employment Service (DYPA), after the record number of applications that occurred last week.

Specifically, from Monday 16th September when the applications started until Sunday 22nd September, a total of 59,063 applications were submitted, confirming the great interest of workers in new skills

DYPA implements the largest-scale program of Continuing Vocational Training (CET) ever carried out in the country, with the aim of training and certifying 500,000 unemployed and workers in digital and green skills, through the National Recovery and Resilience Plan “Greece 2.0”.

The DYPA SEK programs will be implemented through the process of the training voucher system. Each trainee will attend a theoretical training program, with a total duration of 80 hours, of which12 hours will be carried out with live training, at least 48 hours with modern distance training and up to 20 hours with asynchronous distance training.

The training will be followed by a certification of knowledge and skills, through certification vouchers and those who succeed will receive the total educational allowance amounting to 400 euros (gross).

Those interested can submit an application at: https://www.gov.gr/ipiresies/ekpaideuse/katartise/katartisi-ergazomenon

Those who meet the conditions for participation will be added to the Register of Beneficiaries and after the announcement of the Register, they will be able to choose the training program they wish to follow from a list that includes more than 600 training programs offered by more than 200 VET providers.