EEEEK Katerinis is a vocational school which is preparing students with special needs aged between 14 and 22 years for the insertion in the labour market.
The programme of the school contains units of general lessons (language, maths, etc) and laboratories of cooking, gardening, autonomous living and candle making. As the students are starting to study at EEEEK they begin the training in the laboratories area.
By the end of the training, they are going to be qualified in the professions they were trained for.

Please, see below the list on the special needs of the students:

- menthal disability;
- physical disability;
- autism;
- psychological, emotional and social deficit.
 

The most difficult part of their studies is the definition of the profession they can do. So, the school has to provide good guidance, with the assistance of the specified teacher of guidance. Another problem is the real insertion of the students in the Labour Market. The vocational school wants to enhance the opportunities of the students with special needs, by improving their personnel development, employability and preparation for social and labour integration (for the students who are able to be involved in real job activities).

In special needs education a different guidance is carried out. The guidance operators use different approaches with each type of user. The partnership should be a good opportunity to compare the guidance among different educational systems to understand what it is provided for people with and without special needs. All the participants should try to find out how the guidance should be better for students with and without special needs and if there should be a method to provide the equal and real guidance for all. The special needs schools should be integrated with all the others types of school, and all the students with and without disabilities should be integrated in the same team.

Useful internet sites about guidance in Greece:

- www.ekep.gr
- www.elesyp.gr 
- www.mysep.gr

 Contact person

Nikolaos Papathanasiou
Tel. 00302351079532
E-mail: nikopapath@sch.gr

Project outcome

Greek winner of the contest