DOATAP (Hellenic NARIC): Recognition, Exams and Fees

• Academic equivalence of first-cycle (bachelor-level) degrees, including medicine, dentistry and nursing
• Academic equivalence of master's and doctoral degrees
• Grade correspondence on the Greek 0 to 10 scale (included in decisions under Law 4957/2022)
• National registers of recognised foreign institutions and types of qualification
• Medicine and dentistry recognition exams for degrees from outside the EU

• A degree from a foreign institution in the national register of recognised foreign higher education institutions, or one DOATAP can verify.
• Your degree title and transcript of records, certified with an apostille where the country is party to the Hague Convention.
• Official translations of the degree, transcript and certificate of place of study if they are not in Greek, English or French.
• Documents from every institution where you studied part of your programme.
• Taxisnet credentials, or registration as a foreign user, to apply on eDoatap.
• The €180 fee for a first-cycle degree, paid into DOATAP's account at the Bank of Greece.
• For medicine from outside the EU: willingness to sit the DOATAP exams in Athens in Greek, at €70 per subject.

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   1. Check your institution and collect documents

   Look up your university in DOATAP's national registers. The list of documents for each type of application is on eDoatap under Documents. Get the apostille in your country of training before you translate, because the translation must cover the apostille too.
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   2. Arrange official translations

   Translations of documents not in Greek, English or French are accepted from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs translation service, a Greek consulate, a graduate translator of the Ionian University's translation department or a lawyer in Greece. Translations from other providers are a common reason for a file being returned.
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   3. Pay the fee and apply on eDoatap

   Pay €180 into DOATAP's Bank of Greece account, with your full name in the payment reference, and upload the receipt with your application on eDoatap. DOATAP accepts applications only through eDoatap, not by post or email. You choose which Greek university department your degree will be compared with.
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   4. Pre-check and review

   After final submission you get a registration number. DOATAP first checks the file is complete and returns it to you if anything is missing. For first-cycle degrees it then checks the institution and register status, and an external evaluator may be asked to propose compensatory measures within 15 days.
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   5. Receive the decision

   The President of DOATAP's board decides, you have 5 days to confirm the details are correct, and the signed act is sent to you electronically through eDoatap. For a non-EU medical degree, the decision tells you which exam sections you must pass.
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   6. Doctors: sit the medicine exams

   Register for each exam period through the link DOATAP publishes, uploading proof of €70 per subject, and bring the original receipts on the day. You choose one or both sections; each section covers all of its subjects together and cannot be split. Results are posted on the DOATAP website, and DOATAP issues the equivalence act once you have passed every section you owe.
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   7. Nurses and other professions: complete compensatory measures

   Apply to the secretariat of the Greek university department of your choice with DOATAP's decision. You must complete all the measures at the same department and institution. DOATAP's FAQ explains what to send it afterwards so that it can issue the recognition act.
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   8. Ask for a review if you disagree

   You can ask DOATAP to review a decision issued under Law 4957/2022 within 60 days of receiving it, through eDoatap. The review fee is €150.

• Preclinical sciences (medicine)

  Anatomy, physiology and pharmacology: 150 multiple-choice questions from the published question bank in 3 hours 45 minutes. The pass mark is 50% with negative marking, and scores are converted to a 50 to 100 scale.

• Clinical sciences (medicine)

  Paediatrics, internal medicine, surgery, and obstetrics and gynaecology: 200 multiple-choice questions in 5 hours, with the same pass mark and negative marking.

• Format, place and timing

  The exams are taken on computers provided at an exam centre in Athens; in June 2026 this was the National Centre for Public Administration and Local Government (EKDDA) in Tavros. There are two exam periods a year; in 2026 they ran in January and June. The question bank, available on the DOATAP website, is in Greek.

• Compensatory measures (other degrees)

  For degrees other than medicine and dentistry, DOATAP may set a written exam, a placement or a thesis at a Greek university department, depending on the differences it finds between your programme and the Greek one.

• DOATAP does not set a language test for recognition. It accepts supporting documents in Greek, English or French without translation; other languages need an official translation.
• The medicine exam question bank is published in Greek, so in practice you need good medical Greek before you sit the DOATAP exams.
• A DOATAP equivalence obtained after exams matters for language later: under Decision Β' 1373/2019 it exempts doctors from submitting a separate Greek certificate to PIS.
• The Hellenic Nurses Association asks non-Greek citizens for a C1 Greek certificate, separate from the DOATAP decision.

Estimate your total cost

• DOATAP says complete first-cycle applications take 1 to 8 weeks, except those with gaps or particular complications.
• The English FAQ gives 1 to 2 months for applications submitted since November 2022 with a complete file.
• Medicine exams run twice a year. For the June 2026 period, registration was open from 18 May to 19 June 2026 and the acts for successful candidates were issued on 17 July 2026.
• Compensatory measures depend on the Greek university's exam and placement calendar.
• Reviews must be requested within 60 days of the decision.