2024-05-09 14:01:35
During the period of the Panhellenic exams, a very large number of candidates, mainly from islands and remote areas of the mainland, travel far from their homes in order to take exams.
For these cases, the state provides an amount for the students to cover part of the travel, accommodation and food expenses, which amounts to 350 euros per beneficiary and only for the 4 courses (not for the special ones).
The coverage of expenses concerns candidates who participate in the Nationwide examinations in the same year in which they graduate from a General or Vocational High School and are examined nationwide in a school unit other than the one to which they submitted an application – statement. In particular, the candidate who participates during the regular examination period, in all the courses declared in the application – declaration of participation in the All-Hellenic course exams, is eligible, while the candidates who will travel to the examination centers in order to be examined in the special courses are exempt from the compensation . In addition, it is specified that a candidate who will participate in the repeat exams does not become a beneficiary.
The beneficiaries
In particular, candidates for admission to higher education who graduate in the same year in which they participate in the Pan-Hellenic exams and are examined in a school unit (examination center) other than the one where they applied for a declaration of participation in the Pan-Hellenic exams are eligible, as long as they meet the following conditions :
A. They are candidates of the General or Vocational High Schools of the Country and they move:
from the school units of the island country to other Examination Centers of the island country. The compensation is not paid if the movement takes place within the same island and the distance between the two school units (i.e. school unit of submission of the application – declaration of participation in the Pan-Hellenic exams and Examination Center) is less than 120 kilometers.
from the application-declaration school units of the island country to other examination centers of the mainland country.
from the school units of the mainland country to other examination centers of the mainland country and the distance between the two school units (i.e. school unit of submission of the application – declaration of participation in the Pan-Hellenic exams and Examination Center) is greater than 120 kilometers.
B. They are candidates of the General or Vocational High Schools of the Country with a disability or special educational needs and they move:
from the school units of the island country to the Grading or Special Examination Centers of the island country. The compensation is not paid if the movement takes place within the same island and the distance between the two school units (i.e. school of application submission – declaration of participation in the All-Hellenic exams and Grading Center or Special examination Center) is less than 120 kilometers.
from the school units of the island country to the Grading or Special Examinations of the mainland country.
from the school units of the mainland country to the Grading or Special Examination Centers of the mainland country if the distance of the school unit from the Grading Center or Special Examination Center is greater than 120 kilometers.
Compensation payment procedure
In particular, the candidate or his legal guardian must, after the end of the exams, submit, through the Lyceum to which he submitted the application – declaration of participation in the All-Hellenic exams, to the Directorate of Secondary Education an application and the following supporting documents:
High school graduation certificate showing the year of graduation of the specific candidate.
Certificate from the Directorate of Technical Projects of the competent Regional Unit, from which the distance in kilometers of the seat of the Exam or the Grading or the Special Exam Center from the school of submission of the candidate’s application – declaration can be obtained. This is granted in photocopy to the candidate by the school unit submitting the application – declaration, following a relevant request from the school to the competent aforementioned Technical Works department. It is noted that the Certificate of the Directorate of Technical Works of the competent Regional Unit, from which the distance in kilometers of the seat of the Examination or the Grading or the Special Examination Center from the school where the application – declaration of the candidate is submitted, is not required in case of movement of the candidate from an island school unit to another island school unit (another island) or from an island school unit to a mainland school unit.
Certificate of the President of the High School Committee of the Examination Center and / or the President of the Committee of the Examination Center and / or the President of the Grading or Special Examination Center, for the cases of candidates with disabilities or special educational needs, from which the examined courses, the days and dates of the candidate’s participation in the exams. After the end of the Panhellenic Examinations, the candidate receives the certificate in question which he then delivers, according to the above, to the Lyceum of submission of the declaration application. In case it is an EPAL candidate who is examined in different Examination Centers, he should present corresponding Certificates for all the courses in which he was examined. It is noted that the aforementioned certificate is not issued for a candidate who is referred to the repeat exams.