The Technical Institute of Heraklion Chamber of Commerce and Industry introduces its new educational service of e-learning, in order to benefit the process of the programmes.
Please visit the relevant webpage by clicking on the following link: http://elearn.katartisi.gr/
The Institute owns classrooms which are certified by EKEPIS (National Centre for Certification of Infrastructure of Life-Long Learning Institutions), based at No 1 Arhimidous and Ikarou Street in Alikarnassos and also at No 14 Koroneou Street, in the centre of Heraklion. The classrooms can hold up to 25 people and are equipped with PCs which can be used for educational programmes, lectures, meetings etc.
After the decision of the Institute’s Administrative Board, rooms can be provided to associate members and clubs for free. For individuals and businesses, there is a fee applied when hiring those rooms.
For more information regarding bookings and cost, please contact the Institute:
The Technical Institute was established in accordance to the decision of the Ministry of National Economy (No 28531/24-2-1950) and the actioning of the establishment was published within the Hellenic Government’s journal under the ref. No. 45/11-2-1950.
For more than 60 years, the Institute has been working in the area of training and now is an innovative institution that supports change in entrepreneurship, actioning a wide range of 80+ different educational programmes - with their duration varying from 20 to 100 hours - such as the ones stated by the continuous and imperative life-long training market needs. The Institute’s action plan is based on the constant identification and cover of the training market needs with the main focus given to the innovation of the initiatives undertaken, the support for the development of local businesses and the development of the available human resources.
For this purpose, the Institute owns an ultramodern and fully technologically-equipped building complex that consists of 9 classrooms that can hold up to 25 people, at No 1 Ikarou and Arhimidous Street.
A flashback of the history of the Technical Institute of Heraklion Chamber of Commerce and Industry
The Heraklion Chamber of Commerce and Industry in response to the imperative needs of the education of specialized craftsmen, took over the responsibility of establishing and running the Technical Institute of Heraklion Chamber of Commerce and Industry. The Technical Institute of Heraklion Chamber of Commerce and Industry was established in the year 1950, following the decision of the Hellenic Ministry of Economy (ref. No. 28531/24-2-1950) and was published within the Hellenic Government’s journal under the ref. No. 45/11-2-1950.
The Technical Institute was working as a Legal Entity under Private Law and its main goal was the training of specialized craftsmen in order to cover the needs of the most important industry and crafts branches, as well as those of various technical services of the state and also the need for cultural and financial development of the city of Heraklion and the whole of Crete in general. The Institute’s facilities covered an area of 12.000m² which in addition to the not-built site covered a total of 16.000 m². The below crafts were initially introduced:
• Year 1956, Intermediate Technical Training for Foremen
• Year 1965, Higher School of Electronics.
4 fully equipped workshops were available at the time: 1 for electrical works, 1 for engineering, 1 for carpentry and 1 for electronics. Until the year 1967, 1.150 students had been trained. From the year 1968, the student numbers reduced due to the establishment of the Public Technical School in Heraklion and Neapolis in Lasithi. After the law 576/77 was introduced, the Lower and Intermediate Schools for Foremen were abolished and therefore the Technical Institute stopped providing classes on these areas. Following that development, under the new law of 1268/82, also the Higher School of Electronics was abolished too. In 1978, the Technical Institute granted a part of their classrooms to the University of Crete in order for the University to be able to establish the school of Physics and Mathematics in Heraklion. It is worthy pointing out the fact that from 1978 to 1985, the classrooms were given to the University for free, which is an act that proves the Institute’s higher sense of responsibility towards the society of the island of Crete.
Up until mid-1980’s, the Technical Institute was recognized and gained a great reputation as an Intermediate and Higher School that had trained thousands of professionals, who today offer their services to the financial business life of Heraklion. From 1950 to 1985, the year that the Institute stopped their direct educational work, approximately 14.000 businessmen had received training there. From 1987 until today, the Technical Institute hire the biggest part of the infrastructure of the 3rd Technical and Professional School. In 1992, the Institute started again their work, by putting extra weight on the informal continuous training with their main goal being the development and improvement of the skills of the 15.000 businesses/members and their employees, of the Heraklion Chamber of Commerce and Industry. At the same time, funded training programmes were introduced and used in a relatively small degree from R.O.P. of Crete and the N.D.C. In the year 1995, the Technical Institute created a Professional Training Centre according to the decisions with ref. No. 115373/11-11-94 and 115372/11-11-94 of the Minister of Employment and after the approval of the Managing Board of the Heraklion Chamber of Commerce and Industry on 08/02/1995. Those decisions referred to the newly created centre as well as to the modification and restatement of the Organisation, based on which the Technical Institute had been functioning since 1970, in order for the Institute to cover all perquisites to be certified as a Professional Training Centre. The Technical Institute received a temporary certification as a Professional Training Centre in 1995 with ref. No. 4001. In 1998, and within the frame of the notices announced by the National Center for the Certification of Lifelong Learning Structures and the relevant ministerial decisions the Institute did not receive further certification, however, they continued to plan and put into action their whole training programme, meetings and international connections and relations with other Chambers of Commerce for the Heraklion Chamber of Commerce and Industry. More specifically, the Institute’s contribution in the training sector stayed exceptional, providing more than 205.000 hours of training since 1992.
The building complex of the Technical Institute at No 1 Ikarou & Arhimidous Street has been renovated and completely refurbished and consists of 3 classrooms that cover a total area of 210m² where the programmes of the Institute are being taught. Also, there is another room for the secretariat, the Institute’s Management, a café that covers the needs of trainees and tutors and an outdoor area that covers an area of 214m². The Technical Institute of the Heraklion Chamber of Commerce and Industry is a certified Professional Training Centre or regional range and since 2001 continues after being re-certified until 2008, specializing on the below subjects:
The Technical Institute is actively working on 4 main areas:
The Technical Institute continues its dynamic work having arranged a wide plan that includes actions for all the above-mentioned areas. More specifically, in terms of education matters, the planning is related to training cycles based on the main focus which is the MME. Of course, the Institute will continue to participate in all Training Programmes announcements coming from the European Social Fund (includes the unemployed as well as the employed) since the Institute has made a come back into the training of the unemployed, a fact that is proven by the long-term funded programmes that were implemented and are coming from the Ministry of Employment, the Information Society as well as the Region of Crete. Furthermore, the Institute is in a position to organize a wide range of self-funded programmes.
It is known that the Institute’s main subject of work are the development strategies, the support of the local businesses and the provision of training. The Institute have created a wide self-funded programme of training that is currently under full implementation. Those seminars are basically specialized and interactive and are addressed to business executives and entrepreneurs.
The Institute is the Heraklion Chamber’s of Commerce and Industry spearhead in relation to the innovation, the planning and organizing of development prospects, the perquisites and terms of development of the Region of Crete while supporting the general improvement of the business environment.
Our excellent staff, infrastructures, the total support from the Heraklion Chamber of Commerce and Industry in addition to the crucial advantage that comes from this relationship, guarantee our essential and effective role in the area of training and the job market.
Participation in National Training Projects
Participation in Regional Development Project
Regional Innovation Pole of Crete: Union of organizations of the private and broader public sector which aims at the reinforcement of the technological and innovative performances of the Region of Crete and the augmentation of the competitiveness of the regional economy through the implementation of various innovative actions of horizontal and vertical orientation.
Spin-Crete: Regional Innovative Program for the development of an Innovation – related Venture Capital Fund in Crete to fund innovative business start - ups
Participation in European Projects
Enlargement, PRESEM Project: The PRESEM Project recognises the need of modernising economies, bridging gaps and anticipating opportunities (and threats) that enlargement potentially involves and aims at closing the gaps amongst economic entities of border regions of Greece, Cyprus and Turkey. More specifically, the project aims to address identified needs and enhance the dissemination of critical information to local SMEs which are critical for their future prosperity in the light of EC enlargement.
Leonardo Da Vinci, Pilot 1:EVEC A web based European Virtual Enterprise Centre [EVEC] for use by vocational students from disadvantaged communities to instil an enterprise culture will is designed, developed and realised by this project. The partners worked in theme groups to form a coherent set of interactive enterprise learning objects to assist people undertaking vocational programmes to consider creating their own micro-businesses. The major aim of the project is to help in the regeneration of the economy in poorer regions of the E.C.
Leonardo Da Vinci: FORSIMPAD The aim of this project was to formalize a methodology and elaborate several tools in order: to develop the collectives depositories of knowledge often not recognized within a company to facilitate the transmission of this knowledge to support the mutual exchanges, to allow the transfer of the knowledge in new situations The project also responded to 3 major concerns: the ageing of the population, the difficult transmission of the professional knowledge and its transfer to the companies Leonardo Da Vinci: Electronic Authentication of e-Learning The project addressed the needs for: on-line learning providers to have a secure and robust system for learner identification. on-line learners to have access to a consistent and effective methodology for the assessment of on-line vocational learning. The specific aims of the project were: Construct a European Standard for on-line learner identification Construct a European Standard for linking on-line learner identification to continuous learner assessments Contribute towards developing a European Standard for the use of electronic portfolios).
Leonardo Da Vinci: ENTER Project The aim of this project was to provide an innovative training model that encourages people who hold a business idea to adopt an entrepreneurship attitude in every day life by strengthening their entrepreneurial skills This aim was reached by the definition and implementation of a common model of training and mentoring that integrated Training Centers, Science and Technology parks, Enterprises Associations and others, in a transnational and intercultural context. Additionally to training and mentoring, incubation in the project partners facilities (Science & Technology Parks) of the best business plans resulting from the training course were provided.
Heraklion Chamber www.ebeh.gr is one of the largest Chambers of commerce in Greece (one of top five), accounting for more than 20,000 members from all sectors of the local economy. Technical Institute of Heraklion Chamber (TIHC) is an autonomous, non-for-profit institution, established in 1950 as a daughter company of Heraklion Chamber with a Decree from Greek National Economy of Ministry in 1950.
THIC www.katartisi.gr may serve as an excellent partner on dissemination activities in EU projects, including congress or conference organization on the island of Crete, dynamic website development. It can also serve as a partner on Vocational Education and Training delivery in a variety of topics ranging from soft skills development to train the trainers adult learning.
As TIHC Works in close collaboration with Heraklion Chamber it also may serve as the ideal partner on business motivation and development in a variety of topics like tourism, food, entrepreneurial skill development and small business cluster development.
The Technical Institute of Heraklion Chamber works in close cooperation with the Technological Educational Institute of Crete, the University of Crete, and The Science and Technology Park of Crete. TIHC has direct access via the Heraklion Chamber in a series of European Networks that supports SMEs with the most important being: The Enterprise Europe Network (EEN), Insuleur - Network of the Insular Chambers of Commerce and Industry of the E.U., Arab-Hellenic Chamber of Commerce and Development.
TIHC employs 18 highly educated personnel (Ph.D., MSc., MBA) while it is partnering with over 500 contracting teaching staff.
TIHC owns 10 recently renovated fully equipped (Wi-fi, overhead projectors, distant learning systems, sound proof) 25-seat training rooms, including 70 computers for trainees and fully equipped metal welding lab, food and beverage lab and electronics lab.
TIHC implements innovative adult-learning fully participative training models and is certified on computer skills, metal welding, English speaking, transportation, and food handling. Several actions on adult consulting have been also delivered during the last three years that gave TIHC a vast experience on entrepreneurial needs and horizontal skills development. THIC operates in a national level on the sectors of: Informatics, Tourism & Services, Economy & Business Administration, Transportation & Technical Professions, mechanics and electronics and its activity accounts for more than 60.000 trainee-hours per year in more than 120 different educational programs. TIHC is an examination center for the IELTS certification exams and an examination center for the Open University of Cyprus.
2003–2005 ENLARGE – SEMES SEMES - South Eastern Mediterranean Employment and Social Events
2003–2005 SPIN-CRETE Innovation Actions ERDF 2000-2006 Crete Innovation Region “CRINNO”
2004–2006 LEONARDO DA VINCI “Electronic Authentication in E-learning”
2004–2007 LEONARDO DA VINCI “FORSIMPAD” (Formalisation des savoirs implicites par une approche de la didactique professionnelle)
2006–2008 Regional Innovation Poles in Greece Regional Innovation Pole of Crete
2008–2009 LEONARDO DA VINCI “ENTER” (Entrepreneurship Enhancement and Reinforcement)
2012–2013 CIP-EIP Specific Action "Services for SMEs in the field of environment through the Enterprise Europe Network" of the European Commission Wizard of the Environment- The Entreprise Europe Network
2011–2013 LEONARDO DA VINCI “V.E.R.NE.”
2016–2019 INTERREG-MED “MEDFEST”, https://medfest.interreg-med.eu
2016–2018 ERASMUS+ KA3 “WELCOME”, http://www.welcome-platform.eu
2017–2017 ERASMUS+ KA2 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS FOR ADULT EDUCATION “ICARO, http://icaro-softskills.eu
Technical Institute of Heraklion Chamber (TIHC)
Koronaiou 9, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, 71202
T: +302810 302 730
F: +302810 227 189
email: info@katartisi.gr
web: www.katartisi.gr, www.ebeh.gr
Technical Institute of Heraklion Chamber (TIHC) was established with a decision of the Ministry of National Economy in 1950. This decision concerns the operation of a professional training centre with a regional dimension. In 2001 TIHC was certified as a peripheral Vocational Training Centre for the Region of Crete in the following sectors:
Since 2000 the Technical Institute of Chamber of Commerce has implemented many professional training programs for unemployed, employers, employees and entrepreneurs. The close cooperation between the Heraklion Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Technical Institute has guided to a dynamic and long run involvement of both organizations in a series of European Networks that support SMEs with the most important being:
