Scholarships for Successful Candidates in the 2025 Panhellenic Examinations
For the first time, LAE/OPEKA is implementing a new programme of cash awards and scholarships for children of mothers with three or more children who are LAE/OPEKA beneficiaries and who passed the 2025 Panhellenic examinations and entered tertiary education.
The programme is for six hundred and fifty (650) children who are indirectly insured family members of mothers with three or more children who are LAE/OPEKA beneficiaries.
Applications open Monday, 10 November 2025 and close Monday, 1 December 2025.
Applications are submitted online by mothers with three or more children HERE.
In this first pilot year of the cash award and scholarship programme, eligible children must be direct or indirect LAE/OPEKA beneficiaries and must meet the following conditions:
a) enrol for the first time in a public tertiary education institution after passing the 2025 Panhellenic examinations, and
b) their mother must be a direct LAE/OPEKA benefits beneficiary and have three or more dependent children, who are also LAE/OPEKA beneficiaries.
For this purpose, children considered dependants of a mother who is a direct LAE/OPEKA benefits beneficiary include:
Mothers applying must meet the requirements of the LAE/OPEKA cash assistance and award programme for mothers with three or more children and must be healthcare beneficiaries with active insurance coverage.
The eligible categories are:
a) e-EFKA (OGA) insured persons whose insurance contributions were up to date on 31 December 2024,
b) e-EFKA (OGA) pensioners,
c) pensioners under the Uninsured Older Persons Account pursuant to Article 1 of Law 1296/1982 (Government Gazette A’ 128),
d) current or former OPEKA employees who are pensioners, provided they pay the required contributions,
e) e-EFKA employees transferred from OGA who were registered in the LAE Beneficiary Register, provided they pay the required contributions and remain e-EFKA employees.
The cash award/scholarship for each eligible child is (EUR 1,000) and is set by Ministerial Decision 7826/28-05-2025 (Government Gazette 2636/B/28-5-2025) of the Minister of Social Cohesion and Family Affairs.
How to apply
The application is submitted online by the eligible mother with three or more children, using her Taxisnet credentials and Social Security Number (AMKA), through the OPEKA application on https://opeka.gr/ or at https://www.idika.gr/lae-miteres/.
Applicants must enter contact details, an IBAN, spouse details where required, and information about their children.
The application can be saved as a draft and submitted later. Supporting documents may be uploaded (for example, an academic ID, proof of enrolment at a public tertiary education institution, or a DYPA unemployment certificate).
If the number of applications meeting the requirements exceeds the 650 places set for this year’s programme, an electronic lottery will be held. The results will be announced on the OPEKA website.
More information about LAE/OPEKA programmes is available on the official website https://opeka.gr/
