Skills that get you hired in six weeks.

SkillCenter is a Thessaloniki vocational centre running 47 short, certified courses across digital, bookkeeping, hospitality, healthcare and trades — with a placement promise.

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612 placed in 2024. 71% within 30 days.

612

— graduates placed in 2024

71%

— placed within 30 days of finishing

— partner employers in Central Macedonia

What Our Clients Say

“The team here actually knows their subject. Not surface-level knowing — deep, practical knowing that makes a difference in every session.”

Petros Apostolakis

Volos

“I was sceptical before I started. Six weeks later I was not. The results spoke clearly enough.”

Christina Vasilakis

Larissa

“The instructors are practitioners first. You can tell within ten minutes — the examples come from real work, not textbooks.”

Marina Kostopoulou

Patra

“Best part is the cohort. I joined for the curriculum and stayed for the people. Still in touch with my study group two years later.”

Ben H.

Manchester

Six tracks. One way through.

Digital & Office

Microsoft Office Specialist + Google Workspace + marketing fundamentals · 80h · from €380

Bookkeeping & Payroll

Greek B-class books, payroll, myDATA · 120h · from €560

Hospitality & Tourism

frontline service, bar, barista, tour guiding · 60–100h · from €320

Healthcare Support

care assistant, phlebotomy, infection control · 100h · from €490

Trades & Technical

solar PV, HVAC, basic electrical · 100h · from €560

Languages for Work

hospitality EN, business GR, German A2 · 60h · from €280

Built by a hotel director and a learning researcher.

Open cohorts for Spring 2026

Microsoft Office Specialist Track

9 Mar, Mon/Wed evenings, 80h, €380, 18 seats left, instructor: Eleni Mavridou

Greek Bookkeeping Level B

16 Mar, Tue/Thu evenings, 120h, €620, 9 seats left, instructor: Petros Anastopoulos

Hospitality Frontline (Halkidiki Track)

23 Mar, daily 09:30–13:30, 80h, €420, 6 seats left, instructor: Marina Sotiriadou

Care Assistant Pathway

6 Apr, Tue/Thu mornings, 100h, €490, 14 seats left, instructor: Despoina Karipidou RN

Solar PV Installer (Level 1)

13 Apr, Sat-only, 100h, €620, 12 seats left, instructor: Yiannis Tsolakis

Bartending Foundations

27 Apr, Wed evenings, 60h, €380, 8 seats left, instructor: Niko D'Angelo

From the SkillCenter journal

Career Stories

"How Sofia Karagianni went from 22 years in retail to junior bookkeeper in nine weeks" — 4 Feb 2026 — A first-person account of an evening Bookkeeping Level B cohort

Funding Guides

"ΛΑΕΚ 0,06 in 2026: what changed and what you can claim" — 21 Jan 2026 — A 12-minute read explaining the renewed employer training subsidy with worked examples

Industry Reports

"What 47 Halkidiki resorts told us about hiring for Summer 2026" — 8 Jan 2026 — Findings from our December employer survey

Working professionals teach here.

Eleni Mavridou

MOS & Bookkeeping · Senior accountant at Kavouras & Partners · 11 years teaching at SkillCenter

Petros Anastopoulos

Bookkeeping Level B · Tax advisor, 30 years in practice · former DOU auditor, Thessaloniki

Marina Sotiriadou

Hospitality Frontline · Front-of-house director at Sani Resort, Halkidiki, in summer

Niko D'Angelo

Bartending Foundations · Italian-Greek bartender, 8 years at The Blue Cup, Ladadika

A morning in the bookkeeping lab

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