“We are investing 6.8m euros in the digital strengthening of our 3,600 fellow citizens over 65 years and 2,800 of our disability fellow citizens. The success and effectiveness of the digital education program of vulnerable social groups pass through the municipalities and bodies that provide services or support people with disabilities.

We therefore address an open invitation to participate, following our already close and constructive cooperation and our regular meetings with KEDE and ESAMA. The Minister of Social Cohesion and Family Domna Michaelidou said with the publication of the call for the digital strengthening program, designed and implemented by the Ministry of Social Cohesion and Family (Ykissos).

“Digital empowerment of beneficiaries is an exercise in the field of everyday life. Communication through digital applications, making electronic payments, the use of digital applications of gov.gr and social media requires the cultivation of skills. But we are not just talking about skills but steps for substantial autonomy, involvement and inclusion, “the minister underlined.

Ms Michaelidou pointed out that the 70 -hour digital education program for people over 65 and 80 hours for people with disabilities will be held, with live lessons, at 120 digital strengthening knots in the municipalities of the country for the elderly and at 80 junctions.

“With the digital strengthening program of elderly and people with disabilities, we ensure real accessibility to the digital world and our vulnerable fellow citizens to enhance the independent living of the beneficiaries, to reduce their dependence on their supporting environment, to promote their social integration and to promote their social integration.”

The invitation is addressed to the First Degree Local Government Organizations and the National Confederation of Persons with Disabilities (ESAMAA), its organizations, its organizations as well as the bodies certified to provide services to people with disabilities.

Digital strengthening hubs for the training of people over 65 will operate in social structures of elderly belonging to the respective Municipality, such as Open Elderly Protection Centers (KAPI), Friendship Clubs, Elderly Friendship Centers (KEF).

Correspondingly, digital empowerment nodes for the training of people with disabilities will operate in structures of the Institute of the National Confederation of Persons with Disabilities (ESAMA), in ESAMA. and its annexes, the organizations of people with disabilities or chronic diseases and their families, who are bodies of ESAMA. and members of them, in places of the Centers for Daily Care and Daily Care (CDF) as well as in the structures of certified disability bodies.

11/08/2025 is defined as the date of starting electronic submission of applications to the Information System (https://empower.gov.gr/) and 15/09/2025 is set.

The program is implemented by the National Network of Infrastructure, Research and Technology (EDYTE) and the Institute of National Confederation of Persons with Disabilities & Chronic Diseases (INESAMA), in the context of the National Hellenic Association of Reconstruction and Rules of Greece.