Policy proposals for strengthening democratic decision-making in school and consolidating the functioning of democracy

Within the framework of the project “Youth, Europe, Democracy", an online survey on students of the second and third grades of Upper Secondary School was implemented by the General Secretariat for Vocational Education, Training, Lifelong Learning and Youth (GS VETLL&Y), Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs (MER), in collaboration with the Institute of Political Research (IPR), National Centre for Social Research (NCSR). In total 4,818 questionnaires were collected, in a representative sample of 300 General and Vocational Upper Secondary Schools in Greece during the period November 2022 - January 2023.

As the expressed aim of the project was to investigate students' perceptions of the operation of Student Councils (SC) and subsequently to make policy proposals for strengthening democracy in decision-making in schools, this report sets out some sets of proposals, as they emerged from the analysis and processing of students' responses and from the study of international good practices and relevant literature as well as proposals from other institutions.