YPOURGEIO ANAPTYXIS

Their core work

The Greek Ministry of Development is the national government authority responsible for economic policy, industry, trade, and public sector innovation in Greece. In the H2020 context, they engaged as a national public administration pilot site — most significantly in the TOOP project, which tested the "once-only principle" enabling citizens and businesses to submit data to government agencies once rather than repeatedly across member states. They also joined the Procure2Innovate network as a national competence centre for innovation procurement, connecting Greek public procurement policy with European best practice. Their H2020 role is institutional rather than technical: they bring regulatory authority, real-world public administration infrastructure, and the ability to test cross-border digital government solutions at the national level.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

Their earliest H2020 involvement centred on technical and operational e-government reform — piloting the once-only principle through federated architecture and agile co-creation processes between national administrations. As their participation expanded to Procure2Innovate, the focus shifted toward institutional network-building and policy coordination for innovation procurement, suggesting a move from implementation pilot to network anchor. The overall trajectory is narrow but consistent: digital transformation of the public sector, progressing from data-sharing infrastructure toward procurement policy leadership.

They appear to be moving from passive pilot participant toward an active institutional role in shaping public sector innovation procurement policy at the European level.

How they like to work

They have never led an H2020 project as coordinator — both engagements were as third party or basic participant, which is typical for national ministries that act as policy anchors and pilot sites rather than project managers. Their association with TOOP placed them inside a very large, multi-country consortium (73 unique partners across 25 countries), confirming they operate comfortably in broad European consortia. For a potential partner, this means they bring legitimacy and national-level access rather than technical output capacity.

Their H2020 activity links them to 73 unique consortium partners spanning 25 countries, almost entirely through the large TOOP project. This gives them a broad but shallow European network — wide geographic coverage concentrated in a single project ecosystem rather than sustained bilateral relationships.

What sets them apart

As a national ministry, they offer something no university or research institute can: direct access to Greek government procurement systems, regulatory decision-making, and the political mandate to implement EU digital government policy at the national level. Consortium builders targeting projects that require a real national public administration as a pilot site or policy authority in Greece should consider them as the natural institutional anchor. Their involvement also signals project credibility to EU evaluators who value government buy-in for digital public sector projects.

Highlights from their portfolio

• TOOP
  One of the EU's flagship e-government projects, testing the once-only data principle across multiple member states — the Ministry's role as third party placed a national government authority directly inside a large-scale European digital infrastructure experiment.
• Procure2Innovate
  The only project where the Ministry received direct EC funding (EUR 78,359), signalling a shift from passive pilot site to active participant in building a pan-European competence network for innovation procurement.