GEAR (Greece Exploring Advanced Recognition in higher education), aims at tracking recognition processes of modules and incur simplifications in their conduction. Just like a gear gives speed, GEAR will endeavour to tackle obstacles in the intricate recognition processes, since recognition is a pre-condition for large-scale academic mobility and a complementary tool guaranteeing internationalisation. While increased international has cross-fertilized higher education, challenges persist. With the 2012 Bucharest Communiqué and the 2015 Yerevan Communiqué Education Ministers committed to removing hindrances to recognition and to the corner stone of implementation of agreed structural reforms. Tools like the DS, the ECTS, learning outcomes and Quality Assurance are a prerequisite for mobility, joint programmes, bilateral agreements and Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) partnerships. However, non-implementation of these rudiments accounts for the lack of credibility of the EHEA even among its members. GEAR will gain an accurate perspective on the situation in Greece and assist in the improvement of recognition by engaging all relevant stakeholders, i.e. incoming and outgoing students, the administrative staff and the academic personnel. Ultimate beneficiary of a quality higher education system is of course the society. Often, the gap between policy and practice has hampered improvement. Frequently, despite an existing legislative framework, lengthy and time-consuming managerial processes at institutional level or multifaceted definitions of the same policy measure have held back from stirring change, acting as a deterrent for students and a barrier to their mobility. GEAR aspires to review national legislative context where necessary, spot down policy challenges through an exhaustive survey and strengthen the links between policy and implementation by means of six regional in-situ workshops with the view to enhancing recognition procedures concerning the modules.