The necessity and importance of vocational training, lifelong learning and continuing education are no longer disputed by anyone. In Greece, adult training has grown significantly in the last two decades, with a dramatic growth in demand and supply in the 1990s.
The intensification of the introduction and use of new technologies, the increase in unemployment coupled with the need to know the production process and the changes that are taking place, in an environment of heightened competition in the global economy, the expansion of funding from national and Community sources for education adult education is one of the main reasons for the development of vocational training.
The establishment of the Vocational Training Center (KEK INE) in December 1995 allowed trade unions to intervene at national, regional and local levels, with increased conditions for overall long-term planning, with improved conditions for organizing, coordinating and monitoring actions. necessary balances on the marginal issue of self-reliance in the action of regional and sectoral structures of Labor Institute of GSEE.