Mitsotakis Proposes New Ministry for Research and Development

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has announced plans for the imaginable instauration of a new, dedicated Ministry of Research and Development that would besides oversee higher education, authorities sources confirmed.

Speaking astatine the Bio3 Forum 2025, Mr. Mitsotakis said the extremity is to unify Greece's probe ecosystem and adjacent the innovation spread with different European countries.

The caller ministry would beryllium established wrong 2 years of the adjacent election.

He advocated for a imperishable probe backing allocation successful the nationalist budget, which would beryllium administered done a strict, merit-based valuation process to guarantee transparency and supply researchers with wide visibility connected disposable resources.

Mr. Mitsotakis besides highlighted the increasing nexus betwixt technological probe and nationalist security, pointing to the caller Hellenic Center for Defence Innovation (HCDI) arsenic an instauration susceptible of rapidly backing innovative defence projects.

He besides stressed the value of attracting talented members of the Greek diaspora backmost to the state to lend to the fields of artificial quality and biosciences.