Another 70 projects 2.4 billion euros in the Recovery Fund

The inclusion of an additional 70 projects with a total budget of 2.4 billion euros in the financing of the Recovery and Resilience Fund was signed today by the Deputy Minister of Finance, Mr. Theodoros Skylakakis, responsible for the implementation of “Greece 2.0”.

After the new accessions, the total budget of the 173 projects that have received approval for implementation, under “Greece 2.0”, is set at 8.5 billion euros since last July, when the activation of the approved projects of the Greek program.

The new TAA projects cover all four pillars of the National Plan. Specifically, 3 projects concern the “Green Transition” and have a budget of 255.81 million euros, 6 projects in the “Digital Transition”, amounting to 349.48 million euros, 24 projects of a budget of 852.79 million euros in “Employment – Skills – Social Cohesion “and 37 projects, amounting to 931.67 million euros, in” Private investments and transformation of the economy “.

The 70 new projects included in the Recovery Fund per pillar:

1. Green Transition

– Interventions aimed at improving the urban environment and public space. The project concerns renovations of significant scope: a) in selected urban areas of Greece, of particular cultural or historical importance and b) within the urban area or in coastal residential areas for the implementation of measures to prevent and adapt to climate change (252,862,745, 10 €)

– Modernization of facilities and equipment of the educational institutions of the Civil Protection and the Fire Brigade – Academy of Civil Protection Α.ΠΟ.Π. (€ 2,833,282.04)

– Urban wastewater treatment and treatment of environmentally sensitive settlements and modernization of facilities in selected cities (€ 111,600)

2. Digital Transition

– Digital transformation of small and medium enterprises. They are supported for the purchase – utilization of digital products and services (180,000,000 €)

– Industrial Data Platforms: Development of innovative services, based on modern technologies, with the aim of supporting small and medium enterprises to utilize CloudOnly infrastructure and services, the development of online software services (cloud Only Software framework) that will be available to small and medium enterprises. a. (€ 100,000,000)

– Cybersecurity strategy and policies in the Public Sector and creation of a National Center for Cyber ​​Security Operations (€ 40,405,796.80)

– Provision of value added services to support the action: “Digital transformation of small and medium enterprises” from its design to its completion (€ 19,990,474)

– Central Document Management System, including the use of 130,000 remote digital signatures (€ 5,589,052)

– Next generation interoperability center to deal with the growing demand for transactions and the high availability required for the operation of its simplified procedures – paperless – public sector (€ 3,496,800)

3. Employment – Skills – Social Cohesion

– Renovations and modernization of hospitals throughout Greece (314,960,000 €)

– Renovation of Primary Health Care infrastructure (PHC) – Development of clinics for the management of chronic diseases (€ 246,829,440)

– Skills upgrading and retraining programs in high demand industries, with emphasis on digital and green skills (€ 102,157,600)

– Adjustment of unemployment benefits – Association of unemployment benefit with previous service (€ 58,600,000)

– Digital Care II – Support program for teachers / students affected by the fire, students and trainees for the purchase of technological equipment through vouchers (€ 40,500,000)

– Adjustment of unemployment benefits – New long-term unemployment benefits (€ 33,800,000)

– Supply of robotics and STEM equipment (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) for training (30,122,049 €)

– Adjustment of unemployment benefits – Enhancement of the long-term unemployment benefit to existing beneficiaries of the benefit (€ 8,000,000)

– Strengthening and upgrading training in basic skills for different social groups and sectors (€ 5,774,700)

– Training programs in basic and digital skills and in skills in cutting edge industries. Development of basic skills as a private security staff by providing certification of the acquired knowledge (€ 5,737,500)

– OPS OAED / e-Services Platform: New Integrated Information System and OAED Electronic Services Platform (€ 1,500,400)

– Digitization and storage – archiving of OAED data (€ 992,000)

– Cyber ​​Security – Security and protection services of OAED information systems (843.200 €)

– Training programs of special interest for the strengthening of the skills of the employment counselors of the Employment Promotion Centers (KPA2) of OAED (€ 700,000)

– Cybersecurity of OAED Information Systems (595,200 €)

– Training of OAED teachers with modern and asynchronous education and training techniques. It concerns the retraining and upgrading of the skills of 1,000 OAED teachers, for the years 2022-2025 (370,000 €)

– Supply of interactive whiteboards in the schools of OAED (297,600 €)

– Improvement of quality control of OAED in the Vocational Education and Training units (248,000 €)

– Advanced data analysis system using the business intelligence system to meet the needs of OAED (€ 198,400)

– Supply of Computers for the new job consultants (155,000 €)

– Asset Management System: OAED Real Estate Database (147,891 €)

– OAED app: Upgrade of OAED mobile application for the provision of innovative job supply and demand coupling services, as well as escort services (€ 111,600)

– Development of interoperability services of OAED information systems and automation of procedures (€ 74,400)

– Studies of a new organizational structure and decision-making model of OAED (74,400 €)

4. Private investment and transformation of the economy

– New investment program “Innovation and green transition to the processing of agricultural products” (€ 181,521,000)

– Emblematic investments of exceptional importance, concerning the green economy, innovation, technology, as well as the economy of low energy and environmental footprint (€ 171,139,129.14)

– Support of Collective Bodies, in order to take initiatives for the restructuring of tree crops (€ 166,720,000)

– Modernization of the primary sector. The project focuses on the production of quality agricultural products, enhancing their competitiveness and facilitating their entry into new markets. (€ 98,111,000)

– Upgrading and Expansion of Information Systems in the field of Justice (€ 70,000,000)

– Development of new industrial parks, expansion of existing ones and organization of informal industrial gatherings (65,271,948.36 €)

– Single Digital Map – Smart environmental and cultural infrastructure (€ 51,028,440)

– Green agro-tourism. The program covers a wide range of private investments, in order to establish and operate hosting companies, which will promote local products, creating a new “green” and sustainable (agro) tourism product (49,006,000 €)

– Proposals for actions in the field of aquaculture, aiming at the modernization of products, the development of climate-friendly processes, the optimization of production, etc. (€ 34,440,000)

– Genetic improvement of animals. Supporting Institutions, in order to improve the characteristics of the productive animals of the country. (€ 14,702,000)

– Firefighting of the Archaeological Site of Mystras (4,200,000 €)

– Firefighting of the Archaeological Site of Philippi (€ 2,908,000)

– Boeotia: Restoration of the southern gate and part of the wall on either side of it in the Mycenaean acropolis of Gla (€ 2,200,000)

– Creation of a shelter for tourist boats in Ammouliani (€ 1,999,999.66)

– Extension of works for the promotion and maintenance of the archaeological site of Zone and Ancient Egnatia Odos (€ 1,663,530)

– Rodopi: Maintenance and restoration of a central church in Maximianoupolis (€ 1,500,000)

– Upgrading of the services provided by the Ministry of Infrastructure & Transport, in the context of the general strategy for simplification of procedures and their digital transformation (€ 1,432,200)

– Restoration of the western sector of the prehistoric settlement of Poliochni, prefecture of Lemnos (€ 1,420,000)

– Procurement of software tools for the configuration of a system that will serve and support the needs of all staff of the General Directorate of e-Government (€ 1,366,967.87).

– Thessaloniki: Restoration of the Holy Temple of Panagia Chalkeon and the surrounding area, maintenance of painting and sculpture decoration (1,250,000 €)

– Restoration of the post-Byzantine Church of Agios Vassilios and creation of cultural routes in Agios Efstratios (1,000,000 €)

– Veria: Consolidation, restoration, promotion of the Holy Temple of Agia Anna and the Holy Temple of Christ the Pantocrator (850,000 €)

Labor and insurance reforms in the creative and cultural sectors. It concerns the elaboration of studies, publicity actions and the implementation of the platform of labor and insurance issues of the employees and professionals of the creative and cultural sector (773,024 €)

– Restoration of the defensive tower and the fortification enclosure in the monastery complex of the New Monastery of Chios (700,000 €)

– Promotion of the monument of the Rotunda in Thessaloniki (UNESCO Monument) – Shell protection and landscaping (550,000 €)

– Nikopoli: Maintenance of Mosaics of the Royal AD Doumetiou and the Royal DU (550,000 €)

– Development of information infrastructures along the land route followed by the Apostle Paul in Thrace, Macedonia, etc. stations (€ 500,000)

– Creation of a cultural route, entitled: “The road to the West – From Homer to Cervantes”. The route will connect various archeological sites in the Regions of Central Greece, the Peloponnese, Western Greece and the Ionian Islands (500,000 €)

– Excavation, fixing – restoration, maintenance and configuration works for the promotion of the monument house of the judge Georgios in Nikopolis of the Municipality of Preveza (500,000 €)

– Messinia: Promotion of the archeological site of Peristeria (500,000 €)

– Design of a cultural route with a thematic and historical character, which has as its core the Mycenaean, monumental architecture (500,000 €)

– Design of a cultural tour route in a network of castles and fortifications developed in the Peloponnese, Western Greece, the Ionian Islands and Epirus (500,000 €)

– Planning a cultural tour route in Northern Greece, on the trail of the ancient Egnatia Road (500,000 €)

– Redesign of Quality Infrastructure in Greece: Regulatory, Organizational & Business Transformation of the National Quality System for its adaptation to the challenges of the twin transition: green & digital transition (€ 489,552)

– Works for the protection and promotion of the most important 30, approximately, vaulted tombs, which are preserved in the Prefecture of Messinia (480,000 €)

– Restoration of the Orta Mosque in Veria (450,000 €)

– Thessaloniki: Preservation of Palaeological Murals (UNESCO Monuments) of Agia Aikaterini, Agios Nikolaos Orfanos, Profitis Ilias (450,000 €).