The budget of Axis 1 comes up to 391.7 m€. Measure 1.1 “Equipment and networking at all levels of education” and Measure 1.2 “Introduction and utilisation of new technologies in education” are among the measures of the Axis which had a very good status on 31/12/2003.
| Analysis of the status and the progress perspectives of the Axis |
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The status of the Axis on 31/12/2003 is briefly presented in the following table while the progress perspectives of the Axis, counting in the Acceleration Programme, are briefly presented in the next table.
THE STATUS OF THE AXIS ON 31/12/2003
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Axis/ Measure
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Budget
(Μ€)
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Invitations
(%)
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Integrations
(%)
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Contracts
(%)
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Expenditure(%)
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Axis1. Education & Culture
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391,7
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102,9
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78,7
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57,3
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40,1
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Measure 1.1. Equipment and networking at all levels of education
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119,0
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117,3
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102,8
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75,0
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67,6
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Measure 1.2. Introduction and utilisation of new technologies in education
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166,7
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106,9
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89,9
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78,2
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45,6
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Measure 1.3. Documentation, utilisation and promotion of the Greek Culture
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106,1
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80,4
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33,9
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4,7
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0,6
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These two measures cover a percentage of 72.9% of the budget of the Axis in total with invitations which exceed the budget of the two measures, integrations at percentages 117.3% and 106.9% of the relevant budgets, contracts 75% and 78.2% respectively and expenditure 67.6% and 45.6%. The highest budget of integrated projects in relation to the budget of Measure 1.1. is due to the fact that the projects have been contracted and concluded in a budget lower than the integration budget.
Measure 1.3 “Documentation, promotion and utilisation of the Greek Culture” is at a lower position, covering a percentage of 27.1% of the budget of the Axis. In Measure 1.3 the integrations are limited to a percentage of 33.9% of the budget of the Measure, the contracts come up only to 4.7% and the expenditure to the almost zero percentage of 0.6%.
THE PROGRESS OVER TIME AND THE PERSPECTIVES OF THE AXIS ON 29/02/2004
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Axis/ Measure
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Integrations 31/12/2003
(%)
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Integrations 31/12/2003 & Acceleration Programme
(%)
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Invitations
29/02/2004
(%)
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Budget
(Μ€)
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Axis1. Education & Culture
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78,7
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87,1
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102,7
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391,7
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Measure 1.1. Equipment and networking at all levels of education
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102,8
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116,2
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117,3
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119,0
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Measure 1.2. Introduction and utilisation of new technologies in education
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89,8
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91,2
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106,9
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166,7
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Measure 1.3. Documentation, utilisation and promotion of the Greek Culture
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33,9
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47,9
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80,4
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106,1
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In Axis 1 with a budget of 391.7 m€, the invitations covered all the measures of the Axis with a percentage of 402.2 m€ until 31/12/2003 exceeding the budget of the Axis. This fact arises from the invitations for the first two measures of the Axis, Measure 1.1 “Equipment and networking at all levels of education” and Measure 1.2 “Introduction and utilisation of new technologies in education”, while in Measure 1.3 the invitations covered a percentage of 80.4% of the budget.
These integrations cover all the measures of the Axis and until 31/12/2004 came up to 308.1 m€ or a percentage of 78.7% of the budget of the Axis while the contracts and expenditure covered respective percentages of 57.3% and 40.1% of the budget.
The activated budget for the whole Axis, that is the integrations until 31/12/2003, counting in the Acceleration Programme, came up to 341.1 m€ and approached a percentage of 87.1% of the budget of the Axis. The status of Measure 1.3, whose activated budget came up to a percentage of 47.9%, shows significant improvement.
| Conclusions – proposals |
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As regards Measures 1.1 and 1.2, belonging to the competency of the Ministry of Education, the Operational Programme has advanced at extremely fast paces, especially as regards the primary and secondary education and has exceed the objectives set in the Programme Complement. Under these circumstances, the basic priority of the Ministry of Education must be the essential utilisation of the actions financed by the Operational Programme in the Learning process.
However, the needs of the country as regards the ICT infrastructures of the schools of primary and secondary education (Measure 1.1) are only partly covered by the resources that these two Measures have. This is currently faced with the integration of relevant projects from the Actions of pilot and innovative character applications of Measure 2.4 which finances projects of regional range and from the relevant resources for the Information Society of the Regional Operational Programme. This arrangement changes the character of Measure 2.4 and it is not certain that it will be enough for the full coverage of the needs of the primary and secondary education in equipment. It is useful to strengthen the budget of Measure 1.1 and integrate into it all the projects of equipping schools.
As regards Measure 1.3, belonging to the competency of the ministry of Culture, the priority must be the acceleration of the implementation of the projects that have been integrated and the immediate activation of the total of the budgets and the action categories of the Measure. In the current stage, the evaluation procedure for the Invitation concerning Digitalization has been concluded and the projects that will be integrated have been selected.
The basic issue for the actions of the Axis that must be dealt with in time is the renewal of the computational equipment which has a life span of 3-4 years and the securing in the future of the on-going training of the educational personnel in this issue for the actions of Measures 1.1 and 1.2, belonging to the competency of the ministry of Education.
A basic issue which must also be dealt with in time is the securing of the operational conditions in structures and know-how for the continuation of the utilisation effort of the ICTs in the Culture field for the actions of Measure 1.3, belonging to the competency of the ministry of Culture, apart from the actions financed by the 3rd CSF.