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12-10-16 EU ESPA funding approved for hiring special education teachers, personnel
Approved National Strategic Reference Framework – ESPA - credits for hiring substitute Special Education and Assistant Personnel Through Regional Operational Programmes.
In the framework of implementing specialised educational support for the induction of students with disabilities and special education needs for the 2016-2017 school year, through Regional Operational Programmes, funding was approved to hire substitute 618 Special Education teachers and assistant personnel.
The following table is an analytic presentation of the distributions of teaching posts by region and category of personnel:
| Α/Α | Regional Operational Programme | Prospective Special Education Hiring | Prospective Assistant Personnel Hiring |
| 1 | Eastern Macedonia and Thrace | 5 | 40 |
| 2 | Attica | 25 | 160 |
| 3 | Northern Aegean | 3 | 15 |
| 4 | Western Greece | - | 25 |
| 5 | Epirus | 6 | 10 |
| 6 | Ionian Islands | 4 | 12 |
| 7 | Thessaly | 8 | 38 |
| 8 | Central Macedonia | - | 132 |
| 9 | Crete | - | 53 |
| 10 | Southern Aegean | 3 | 14 |
| 11 | Peloponnese | 5 | 35 |
| 12 | Mainland Greece | - | 25 |
| Total: | 59 | 559 | |
