NDC

National Documentation Center, Greece

The National Documentation Centre (EKT) is a public organisation that promotes knowledge, research, innovation and digital transformation. It was established in 1980 with funding from the United Nations Development Programme with the aim to strengthen the collection and distribution of research-related material, and to ensure full accessibility to it. It has been designated as a National Scientific Infrastructure, a National Authority of the Hellenic Statistical System, and National Contact Point for European Research and Innovation Programmes. Since August 2019, it has been established as a discrete public-interest legal entity under private law, and is supervised by the Ministry of Digital Governance (Article 59 / Law 4623/2019, Government Gazette issue A' 134, 09/08/2019). EKT is a Scientific Infrastructure and a National Authority of the Hellenic statistical system (Decision No. 7304/B2-576 Official Gazette B’ 3482/2017). As a digital and natural infrastructure of national scope its institutional  role is to collect, organize and preserve the entire Greek scientific, research and cultural output (content and data) disseminating it at both  national and global level.

Official website: https://www.ekt.gr/en/index

See the Memorandum of Understanding here.