The Ministry of Education, Research and Religious Affairs (Greek: Υπουργείο Παιδείας, Έρευνας και Θρησκευμάτων) is a government department of Greece. One of the oldest ministries, established in 1833, it is responsible for running the country's education system and for supervising the religions in Greece. The minister is Kostas Gabroglou.
History
Years
Name
1833 - 1926
Ministry of Religious Affairs and Public Education
1926 - 1949
Ministry of Religious Affairs and Education
1949 - 1955
Ministry of Religious Affairs and National Education
1955 - 2009
Ministry of National Education and Religious Affairs
2009 - 2012
Ministry of Education, Lifelong Learning and Religious Affairs
2012 - 2013
Ministry of Education, Religious Affairs, Culture and Sport
2013 - 2015
Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs
2015/1 - 2015/9
Ministry of Culture, Education and Religious Affairs
2015/9 -
Ministry of Education, Research and Religious Affairs
Is duty of Ministry of Education, Research and Religious Affairsdigitize, preserve and make them available and accessible public domain works for every citizen. Greece has millions of public domain works (books, pictures, music and films) that belongs to the public domain and since there is not restrictions or copyright on them and all these works can be accessed, copied and enjoyed by its citizen in order to accomplish human right of access to science and culture make more egalitarian access to culture in every country no matter the social status of the cirizens.[1][2]
Current leadership
Minister of Education, Research and Religious Affairs: Kostas Gabroglou
Alternate Minister of Education, Research and Religious Affairs: Kostas Fotakis