Aggelos Kavassakis is an Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Sciences and Social Work, specializing in Lifelong Learning Policies [Government Gazette (Issue C): 1318/7-4-2025].

His main field of research is the analysis and interpretation of the processes of producing and implementing lifelong learning policies and their transformation at the national level in the contemporary global environment. His research focuses on the analysis of lifelong learning policies that are produced in a highly internationalized global environment and transferred to different levels (international, European, national, and intranational).

Lifelong learning policies are usually shaped and developed through the creation of opposing and/or conflicting networks. The analysis and interpretation of these policies requires the study of their design at the central level as well as their implementation, interpretation, and misinterpretation by actors in the field. Within this framework of policy production and implementation, lifelong learning organizations play a central role, as the programs of these policies reflect changes in technology, information, production structures, specialization, and employment. As a result, universities, as lifelong learning institutions, are often at the forefront of these processes. The main analytical axes of lifelong learning policies include the following three: (a) the production, formulation, and development of these policies within and between the international/European and national levels, (b) the strong correlation between lifelong learning policies and sustainable development and the professional development of workers, and (c) the central role of the debate on quality assurance.

His research interests focus on the processes involved in the creation and implementation of lifelong learning policies from the European to the national level and, subsequently, at the intra-national level. In particular, he is interested in how a lifelong learning institution and the individual and collective actors within it (or, more generally, actors within the social field) respond to the stimuli they receive from the creation and implementation of policies. In his research, he investigates and analyzes lifelong learning policies through the three axes mentioned above. He uses analytical tools (concepts and theories) related, on the one hand, to the actions of individual and collective actors who often form policy networks and, on the other hand, to the processes of policy transfer between different levels. Within this research framework, he also supervises several doctoral research.

Finally, in terms of his teaching work, he teaches in the Department’s first cycle program, in three of the Department’s postgraduate programs, and in postgraduate programs at other universities in Greece and abroad.