The special application of the Ministry of Education, Religions and Sports for electronics will be open from Monday (30.6.2025) applicationsfor interested – beneficiaries of housing For the academic year 2024 – 2025.
Interested parties should visit the Special application of student housing allowancein order to submit their application electronically.
For their entry into the online application, applicants will use the username and the password granted them by AADE for Taxisnet online services.
It is clarified that from the academic year 2024 – 2025 the lease should apply to a property located in any municipality within the same Regional Unit whose administrative boundaries is based by the student’s HEI department, in a city another in its main residence.
In particular, for the wider area of Thessaloniki, the Thessaloniki Town Planning Complex is considered as a city, including its cities or areas that are less than 20 kilometers from the center of Thessaloniki.
The prefecture of Attica, except for its island areas as well as the cities or areas that are more than 40 kilometers from downtown Athens, is also considered a city. In these cases, the lease should apply to the Thessaloniki or the “city” of Athens respectively.
More information is provided in the circular signed by the Deputy Minister of Education, Religions and Sports, Nikos Papaioannou on the granting of housing allowance for the academic year 2024 – 2025 and located here.
It is recalled that 2019 Student housing allowance was 1000 euros. From the academic year 2021 – 2022 the student housing allowance has increased to EUR 1500 and 2000 euros in the event of co -habitation, and from the academic year 2023 – 2024 and for all HEIs, except those of the Region of Attica and the Regional Unit of Thessaloniki, we had a second increase in It now reaches 2000 euros and 2500 euros in case of cohabitation.
The data on the total amount for the student housing allowance per academic year are as follows:
- Academic year 2019 – 2020: 51,013,000 euros
- Academic Year 2020 – 2021: 39,654,000 euros
- Academic year 2021 – 2022: 72,436,500 euros
- Academic year 2022 – 2023: 70.875,000 euros
- Academic year 2023 – 2024: 81.680,000 euros
Finally, as far as the student housing is concerned, it is noted that the creation of new student halls is proceeding through PPP as follows:
– University of Crete – 255 million euros
- 710 beds in Rethymnon
- 136 beds in Heraklion
– Democritus University of Thrace – 133.1 million euros
- 350 beds in Alexandroupolis
- 350 beds in Komotini
– University of Thessaly – 116.7 million euros
- 640 beds in Volos
- 123 beds in Lamia
– University of Western Macedonia – 105.3 million euros
- 350 beds in Kozani
- 150 beds in Florina
- 150 beds in Kastoria
- 100 beds in Ptolemais
– University of Western Attica – EUR 82 million
- 100 beds in the upper and lower lake of the Municipality of Fylis
– National Technical University of Athens – 45.4 million euros
- Renovation of Old Student Home – 450 beds
The Minister of Education, Religions and Sports, Sofia Zacharakis said: “The reduction of the financial burden involving children’s study, far from home is primary care for us at the Ministry of Education and in the government as a whole. We know that rent greatly affects the cost of living, what in everyday discussion, we all describe as accuracy. We have already put a coherent policy since 2019 to ensure economic and decent housing for children studying at the Public University. With medium -term and long -term targeting. First, we significantly increased the housing student allowance with special care for students at regional universities. Of the 51m euros allocated in 2019, with successive increases in amounts we reached € 82m last year. Secondly, we are proceeding rapidly a wide program of upgrading and renovating the existing student halls as well as the creation of new modern ones, in public and private synergy. Once this design is completed, we will have formed thousands of modern, economical and secure student residences across the country. From Alexandroupolis and Ptolemais to Kalamata and Rethymnon. Integrated within the public university. This will be provided with every young and news, the ability to study away from his home, without the housing being a bit for families, for vulnerable nicknames. We defend in practice and not through inexpensive rhetorical declarations, quality modern public education. Step by step we ensure the equal access to everyone to education. Education remains the strongest social elevator and for the ND it is an identity issue to its multifaceted reinforcement. ”
The Deputy Minister of Education, Religions and Sports, Nikos Papaioannou, said: “The New Democracy government remains committed to supporting higher education, improving students’ living conditions and enhancing their access to higher education, so it has already increased a significant increase in housing allowance. The enhancement of the housing allowance, in conjunction with the extension of its implementation, from the academic year 2024 – 2025, to lease a property which is located in any municipality within the same regional unit within the administrative boundaries of which the Department of Hospital is located, Education. At the same time, taking care of the Student Housing, we are also making new student homes through PPPs, at 6 HEIs, totaling € 737.5 million, forming an environment that will allow our young people to study in better terms. “