KANEP represents the Greek General Confederation of Labour in the area of Education and Lifelong learning, promoting the agenda of trade unions which includes employment policies, policies for combating social exclusion, and reinforcement of trade union presence in society.
KANEP –through GSEE– institutionally participates to all national and regional bodies dealing with lifelong learning and employment both on policy and implementation level. Furthermore, a KANEP representative participates in the EQF Advisory Group and also in relevant committees concerning NQF in Greece.
KANEP has significant experience in EU funded projects through lifelong learning program (Structural funds) where it implements an academy for unionists (5.935.000 budget) and a project for promoting best practice examples of lifelong learning all around Europe to the educational community.
KANEP implements two Leonardo projects one for developing e-learning tools for trade unions’ education and another one in cooperation with TUC for exchanges of trainers and trainers of trade union education.