According to the Prime Minister, this new model "can not be based on labor-intensive logic, but on knowledge intensive, and Crete can become a model region for its shaping.
"As long as some people try to convince us that the country can become more competitive by reducing and shrinking wages, there will always be another country next to us that will have lower wages than ours.
As much as they try to convince us that there is the problem or taxation, the problem is that we have the wrong strategic goal. We need to invest in our comparative advantages and one of them is the human potential. They are the new scientists, the specialized scientists. We must therefore invest in a productive, knowledge-intensive, labor-intensive model, "he said in his speech.
Starting with his visit to Crete, the Prime Minister wanted to make it clear that research and innovation, innovative entrepreneurship are very high on the government's priorities.
The first part that Alexis Tsipras visited was the Foundation for Research and Technology (HEI), one of the most important institutions in Greece.
It is also characteristic that while the visit was scheduled to last for about an hour, the Prime Minister stayed in the workshops of the Foundation for Research and Technology for about four hours!
"The comparative advantage of our place is human capital, we have to invest in new people and infrastructure," he said, pointing out that "the national target for the next five years is brain gain, we can make it happen step by step," he said the prime minister conversing with new scientists and researchers from the Foundation.
In addition, the prime minister met with Professor Jean-Pierre Bourguignon, chairman of the European Research Council (ERC), who is in Crete as part of the ERC-sponsored workshops and activities of researchers. Alexis Tsipras and Jean-Pierre Bourguignon talked about joint actions to boost funding for Greek researchers.
In his speech at Astoria, the prime minister paid special attention to the role of Crete as an energy hub and said that the energy interconnection of Crete, which will transform it into an energy hub, by increasing jobs and reducing the burden on households, is under way .
He referred in particular to the Eurasia Interconnector cable linking the Israeli, Cypriot and Crete electricity grids, as well as to the Eastmed pipeline that will transfer natural gas from the South East Mediterranean resources to Europe via Cyprus, Greece and Italy and to promote it a joint declaration has been signed between Greece, Cyprus and Israel.
He stressed the importance of exploiting hydrocarbon deposits in the southeastern Mediterranean, which has brought Crete to the focus of oil companies' interest, and noted that all these projects together will increase Crete's importance and create jobs, adding that for their construction the strictest standards of international practice on environmental protection will be respected.
One of the most important announcements made in Heraklion by the Prime Minister was the construction of the North Axis from Kissamos to Sitia. On this road network, only 40 people have died since January 2017.
"We estimate that the work will begin in early 2019. And we will be here with the regional governor to get to work," the prime minister said. "The project will be completed in 4 to 5 years from its start, but from what I see again we will be here, me and the regional governor," said Mr. Tsipras.
As announced by the Prime Minister, on the sidelines of the Conference in Heraklion, a joint meeting was agreed between the Ministry of Education, the University, the Polytechnic, TEI of Crete and FORTH in order to define the two-year specific programs are founded in Crete, especially for Crete, for graduates of Professional Lyceums.
These programs, which are enshrined in the Higher Education Act, will provide professional qualifications of European qualifications and qualifications.
The workshop will take place in the last week of October and will be the first of a series of similar events to be held across the country.
The active participation of the University, the Polytechnic and the Technological Educational Institute of Crete, in cooperation with the Regional Directorate of Education, was also agreed in the professional orientation of students of lyceums in Crete.
The government attaches great importance to regional development conferences. Opening the Conference's work in Crete, Deputy Prime Minister Yiannis Dragasagis said that Maximim's goal is, following the regional conferences, to create stable and permanent structures for the participation of society.
"So far, society has been on the sidelines of development plans. Now society is at the center of the project, "he said.
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