Country Profile: Greece

• Country Size: 131,957 km²
• Citizens: 10,400,720 (2024) | Tendency: falling
• GDP per capita: 24,752.1 $ (2024) | Tendency: rising
• EU Innovation Scoreboard: Moderate Innovator (2025) | 85.3%
• BEDA Member Organisation: Business and Cultural Development Centre (KEPA)

Dedicated design policy status

No

Design in other policy agendas

• Circular Economy Strategy – Mentions eco-design and product redesign multiple times. [Integrated]
• Digital Strategy – The Digital Transformation Bible (2020–2025) references the human-centred design, service design and design methodologies. [Integrated]
• CCI, innovation, industrial/development, architecture strategies – No strategies or explicit references were identified.

Observations

While Greece lacks a dedicated design policy, design is embedded in both sustainability and digitalisation agendas. The recognition of service design and the human-centred design in the digital strategy suggests institutional entry points, while eco-design provisions anchor design within environmental transitions. Together, these form partial but important foundations for design’s integration, though the impact remains fragmented.