Over 50,000 unemployed benefited from the active employment policies of the Public Employment Service (DYPA) within 2023. Specifically, during the period from December 15, 2022 to December 15, 2023, 50,282 unemployed people worked, through the employment programs of DYPA, which is a record.

As stated in a relevant announcement, the programs concerned the creation of new jobs, the acquisition of professional experience, as well as new entrepreneurship and include five new actions of the Recovery Fund.

According to the relevant study of the Directorate of Strategic Planning, which analyzed data from the Integrated Information System of DYPA, over a period of one year:

– 22,830 unemployed people participated in new job creation programs and special employment programs

– 23,953 unemployed young people participated in work experience acquisition programs

– 3,499 unemployed people created new businesses, through a DYPA grant

– 78% of the beneficiaries work in areas outside Attica

– 63% concern women and 55% young people up to 29 years old, while young women represent 35% of the beneficiaries

– 30% are graduates and 45% are high school graduates

– 41% were long-term unemployed (over 12 months of unemployment)

– 90% were employed in very small businesses (1-9 employees)

– 32% were employed in enterprises of the category “wholesale and retail trade, repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles”, 14% in enterprises of the sector “professional, scientific and technical activities”, 10% in enterprises of “accommodation and catering services” and 9% in “manufacturing”.

The Minister of Labor and Social Security, Adonis Georgiades, he stated: “I have always said that politics is an applied art and all that matters in the end is the result. The news that over 50,000 unemployed benefited from the active employment policies of DYPA within 2023, which is a record, it gives me great joy and impetus to work even more intensively and targeted, in order to create greater opportunities and more jobs for our fellow citizens. Our national goal of reducing unemployment below 8% in 2024, by creating new and well-paid jobs, is achievable and realistic.”

For his part, the governor of DYPA, Spyros Protopsaltis, noted: “Labor subsidy is a central pillar of DYPA’s active employment policies and was our main priority in the year that closes in a few days. Our job is to find work for the unemployed and staff for businesses. The 50,282 of our fellow citizens who either found a job or started a new business in 2023, through the actions of DYPA, is an incentive to continue with the same commitment to offer more opportunities to all those looking for work, utilizing the resources of the new NSRF, so that the reduction of unemployment can continue at an even faster rate”.

The report “Beneficiaries of the 2023 employment programs” is posted at: https://www.dypa.gov.gr/storage/statistika-stoikheia/ekthesh-ofeloumenoi-proghrammaton-apaskholisis-dypa-2023-dekembrios-2023.pdf .

For more information about DYPA’s work subsidy programs, those interested can visit the online address: https://www.dypa.gov.gr/anoikta-proghramata.