Eduact and Educational Robotics

• October 1, 2025
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Eduact is a renowned provider of innovation and STEM and robotics education in Greece, with an emphasis on extroversion, equal access and social responsibility.

Identity and Vision

Eduact, based in Thessaloniki, was founded in 2013 with the aim of bringing the education of the future today for all: children, young people and adults. The organisation implements educational programmes focusing on new technologies, programming and robotics, but is also dynamically expanding on sustainable development, digital transition and social innovation. Its programmes enhance not only technical and digital skills, but also soft skills, leadership and social participation.

Educational Actions and Scope

The organization provides a wide range of actions, such as:

• Panhellenic robotics workshops and festivals for children and teachers, in cooperation with private bodies, municipalities and ministries.
• Innovative implementation of the STEAM programme in skills workshops and educational robotics programmes that prepare the young generation for the challenges of the labour market.
• Adult education programmes promoting lifelong learning, professional inclusion and social cohesion, with a focus on green growth and digital transformation.

Innovative Practices and Discrimination

Eduact manages a dynamic network of volunteers, teachers and market professionals, collaborating with higher education institutions and strategic partners.

Good practices such as creative mornings, school visits for experiential robotics, as well as mentoring and mentoring new groups of pupils and students, are a very important institution, as well as the fact that the organisation is a competent body and a national organiser of the National Robotics Team.

In 2018 he managed to place our country on the map of the global organization of the FIRST® GLOBAL Challenge Robotics Olympiad. Eduact is also a national body of the FIRST® LEGO®League Challenge competitions in Greece, organizing every year the Panhellenic Final Competition of Educational Robotic Research and Innovation. In 2025, the competition hosted over 700 children and dozens of teams from across the country.

Indicative of the impact is the FLL Expo, which attracts thousands of participants each year (3 000 participants in 2025).

Eduact has been repeatedly recognized as an institution for its work and has been awarded for its efforts regarding equality in the acquisition of digital skills and the educational integration of advanced digital skills through inclusion and mentoring tactics.

At the Education Leaders Awards 2020 he was awarded the “GoldAward: Investment by Education Sector | Robotics» to promote educational robotics and innovation at national and international level. In the same Awards two years later (Education Leaders Awards 2022) it received a double distinction for innovation and its actions beyond geographical or social boundaries:

• GOLD Award in the Robotics and AI category, entitled “Greeceas a beacon of innovation and education in the midst of the pandemic – The first hybrid robotics championship FIRST® LEGO® League Virtual Open International Greece”,
• BRONZE Award in the Horizontal Skills Development category entitled “Educationof the future, today for ALL – Robotics in the schedule of hard-to-reach public schools”.

Summary assessment

Eduact emerges as an institutional innovator with repeated practices of high value and impact. The organization of various educational programs and robotics and STEAM competitions, its numerous voluntary network, its consistently high numbers of participations and its repeated distinction at national and international level, confirm its organized and effective intervention in the field of STEM education and lifelong learning in the Greek territory.