Today, Thursday, June 20, 2024, at 18:00, the online submission of applications for registrations and re-registrations of infants and toddlers in the 27 nursery centers of the Public Employment Service (DYPA) for the school year 2024-2025 begins.

The hosting of infants and toddlers is free and applications can be submitted until July 21, 2024.

DYPA’s privately owned nurseries operate from September 1 to July 31, 6:45-16:00 (Monday-Friday) and are aimed at infants and toddlers from 6 months to 4 years.

As stated in the relevant announcement, a daily program of creative work is implemented for the harmonious psychosomatic and educational development of the children.

In Attica, nurseries operate in the municipalities of Acharna, Agia Varvara, Ano Liosion, Elefsina, Keratsini, Moschato, Olympic Village, Peristeri and Haidari, while in the rest of Greece they operate in the cities of Agrini, Arta, Drama, Igoumenitsa, Ioannina, Kavala, Kalamata , Karditsa, Karpenisi, Komotini, Larissa, Messolonghi, Naoussa, Xanthi, Patras, Pylaia Thessaloniki, Serres and Trikala.

Applications are submitted exclusively online, via gov.gr.

The route is: gov.gr → Education → Registration in a nursery school → Registration in a nursery school of the Public Employment Service (D.YP.A.).

Beneficiaries are the parent, parents or guardians (guardians, guardians, etc.) of beneficiary children, who:

  • in the years 2023-2024, completed a total of 25 days of insurance in the e-EFKA and/or special maternity protection benefit and/or regular unemployment benefit and/or long-term unemployment benefit or
  • have been registered unemployed for at least two months on the application deadline or
  • are beneficiaries of the unemployment benefit for self-employed insured (s. OAEE, S. ETAP-MME, S. ETAA).

The selection criteria are economic and social.

After the application process is completed, provisional tables of selected, substitute and excluded infants will be posted and the beneficiaries will be able to submit objections.

DYPA participates in the action “promotion and support of children for their inclusion in pre-school education, as well as for the access of school-age children, teenagers and people with disabilities to creative employment services”, with the beneficiary entity EETAA SA, co-financed by the European Social Fund (ESF), as well as from national resources, within the framework of the Enterprise Pact for Regional Development (ESPA) for the programming period 2021-2027.

Parents, who meet the conditions for inclusion in the above program, are invited to submit the relevant application to it.

Those who receive the voucher can immediately deposit it at a DYPA nursery.

For more information: https://www.dypa.gov.gr/brefonipiaki-paidiki-stathmi-dypa.