Hellenic Observatory, LSE

08/09/2026

⏳ Deadline Extended!

The Research Innovation Programme on Greece & Cyprus, supported by the A.G. Leventis Foundation, is now accepting applications until 24 September 2026.

This year’s Call focuses on two key themes:

🔹 The class divide: privilege, institutional interlocks and the reproduction of social stratification
🔹 Being female: inclusion, inequality, participation and empowerment

👉 Visit our website to learn more about the research themes, application process, timeline and deliverables.

The LSE Centre for Research on Contemporary Greece & Cyprus - Hellenic Observatory invites applications for research project funding under its new Research Innovation Programme, supported by the A.G. Leventis Foundation.

07/09/2026

Primary and secondary education: students, teachers and funding

https://www.greeceinnumbers.com/en-gb/Public%20Services/Education

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📈 The number of primary school pupils fluctuated between 630,000 and 650,000 over the two decades from 1998 to 2018. Since then, it has fallen to 565,000.

📈 At the same time, the number of primary school teachers has increased substantially: from 52,000 in 2001 to 78,000 in 2024.

📈 The number of primary schools, by contrast, has declined steadily. From 6,100 in the 2000–01 school year, it fell to 4,300 in 2023–24.

📈 In secondary education, the number of students has remained relatively stable over the past 20 years, at around 700,000. In the late 1990s, it was close to 800,000.

📈 Over the past decade, the number of secondary school teachers has remained at around 80,000.

📈 Public spending on primary and secondary education amounted to 2.4% of GDP in 2024, the lowest share in 25 years.

Greece in Numbers aims to support evidence-based public debate by presenting data in a neutral way, without advancing specific interpretations.

03/09/2026

📢 New Research Paper available!

Professor Theodore Panagiotidis, Dr Paraskevi Tzika and Dr Georgios Voucharas have been working on the project Housing Affordability, Housing Investment, and the Residential Rental Market in Greece.

➡ In their research paper, published as GreeSE Paper 223, they introduce the Greek Housing Market Uncertainty (HMU) index, a monthly newspaper-based measure designed to capture housing-specific uncertainty. Using Local Projections and their state-dependent and time-varying extensions, they examine the dynamic effects of HMU shocks on key housing market variables. The results show that house prices respond negatively to housing uncertainty shocks, albeit with a lag, while residential loan growth also declines significantly in the short run.

📚 You can read the Paper here: https://tinyurl.com/ytadfbn6

➡️Read more about the Project: https://tinyurl.com/4mv69ntd

* The Project is part of the HO Research Calls Programme, funded by the Athanasios C. Laskaridis Charitable Foundation and Dr Vassili G. Apostolopoulos II .

13/08/2026

⏳ One month left to apply!

The Research Innovation Programme on Greece & Cyprus, supported by the A.G. Leventis Foundation, is accepting applications until 10 September.

This year’s Call focuses on two key themes:

🔹 The class divide: privilege, institutional interlocks and the reproduction of social stratification
🔹 Being female: inclusion, inequality, participation and empowerment

👉 Visit our website to learn more about the research themes, application process, timeline and deliverables.

The LSE Centre for Research on Contemporary Greece & Cyprus - Hellenic Observatory invites applications for research project funding under its new Research Innovation Programme, supported by the A.G. Leventis Foundation.

12/08/2026

Greece has come a long way since the crisis, but has it fully recovered?

➡ Peter Sanfey and Dimitris Sourvanos, authors of the GreeSE paper Out of the Abyss: Has Greece Fully Recovered from the Crisis?, join Nick Malkoutzis to discuss Greece’s long road from economic crisis to stability.

🎧 Listen to the podcast

Greece has come a long way since the dark days of 2015, but has it fully recovered? In this episode of The Agora, Nick Malkoutzis speaks with Peter Sanfey and Dimitris Sourvanos, authors of the new Hellenic Observatory paper Out of the Abyss, to unpack Greece’s decade‑long journey from crisis to...

04/08/2026

Check out the latest GreeSE Paper!

📚 When Floors Fall: Decentralisation and the Inversion of the Wage Premium by Nicholas Giannakopoulos, Ioannis Laliotis, Vassilis Monastiriotis, and Andreas Moustakas.

➡ Using two decades of survey evidence alongside the hand-coded universe of sectoral and firm-level agreements, the authors estimate wave-specific, covariate-adjusted wage gaps and
set the collective-bargaining estimates against the contracts that generated them. Their findings document a premium inversion: the firm-level wage gap, larger before the reform, collapses among small firms after it, while the sectoral gap rises and concentrates among lower-paid workers.

🔗 Read the Paper here:https://www.lse.ac.uk/asset-library/information/greese-no222.pdf

03/08/2026

Migration and Greek citizenship acquisition
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https://www.greeceinnumbers.com/en-gb/Population/Migration?fbclid=IwY2xjawTdPQZwZG9mAWV4dG4DYWVtAjEwAGJyaWQRMUNHN0UyWXpjOWNUTWs1M2ZzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEe8ZlJFlvo9B5ecYVDxHFFZtyc-8SktPbqtvL30ifV-oVwllPYKx_aijrhkhg_aem_sTCG1ETHdhGWsJe7aBUNCQ

31/07/2026

Is Greece finally regaining its influence in international relations, or did it never really lose it?

➡ Dr Spyros Economides, Hellenic Observatory Research Affiliate, joined Prof James Ker-Lindsay for a conversation on how Greece's foreign policy has been shaped by defining moments in modern European history.

📺 Watch the interview

Is Greece finally regaining its influence in International Relation...

31/07/2026

📢 Applications are open!

Our Research Innovation Programme on Greece & Cyprus, generously supported by the A.G. Leventis Foundation, is now accepting applications!

This year’s Call focuses on two key themes:

🔹 The class divide: privilege, institutional interlocks and the reproduction of social stratification
🔹 Being female: inclusion, inequality, participation and empowerment

📅 Application Deadline: 10 September

👉 Visit our website to learn more about the research themes, application process, timeline and deliverables.

The LSE Centre for Research on Contemporary Greece & Cyprus - Hellenic Observatory invites applications for research project funding under its new Research Innovation Programme, supported by the A.G. Leventis Foundation.

27/07/2026

Health outcomes: life expectancy, healthy life years, and mortality
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https://www.greeceinnumbers.com/en-gb/Public%20Services/Health/Health%20outcomes