Amid difficult Covid times, EKO had the pleasure to participate in a 2-hour pilot bike tour organised by Wegozero.co, a Dutch organisation aiming to promote a “Zero Waste” lifestyle, on Monday morning, April 26, 2021, and sponsored by bFlex and COCO-MAT! The bike tour focused on visiting different second-hand clothes shops in order to increase the awareness of circular economy […]
Great news for you, EKO, and any youth mobility of the future! We are glad to announce that InterAct’s “First Kick-Off” meeting took place last week, and that we officially got started! InterAct is our journey towards helping youth across Europe to have a deeper understanding of the value of intercultural communication, and to make the most out of it. […]
The 1st Day of the online training of the short-term ESC Volunteering teams project “Second Chance” was completed with huge success. We are excited to be members of this very fruitful partnership! The project is organized by our partners IDC – Initiative et Développement Citoyen from France. EKO along with two other organizations from Italy (Associazione Kora) and Denmark (Dansk […]
EKO, together with the partner Universities of ERMIScom project, completed a highly constructive workshop for the researchers involved in the development of the project’s intellectual outputs, coordinated by the Finnish partner, Metropolia University. Through a multi-step, interactive discussion the researchers exchanged best practices and effective pedagogical methods they use in the classroom, as part of their daily teaching work, to […]
On February 2-3, 2021 the Kick-Off meeting (KOM) of “Youth Finance Academy” project was successfully implemented as a virtual conference, with a presence of 12 participants, i.e. the project coordinator(s) and the experts representing each partner. The project beneficiaries had then the chance to discuss in detail and agree on all facets of a common project implementation plan, and specifically […]
EKO is happy to announce that the KA227 project “Transforming COVID-19 into an opportunity: new inclusive digital jobs and training for your people in the creative sector” applied by our Belgian partners, YOUTHPROAKTIV, in the context of COVID extraordinary call for proposals, has been approved! Covid-19 is leading to the emergence of a “lockdown generation”, as the crisis hits young […]
The New Year started with an amazing gift for EKO! Our ESC long-term Volunteering program “Resources for Youth Power” has been approved, by the Greek National Agency! The project aims at promoting active citizenship, volunteerism and non-formal education as transformative tools of empowerment for youth. It will involve 4 Greek Volunteers, who will be placed for 6 months, in pairs, […]
EKO is happy to announce that the Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership for Youth project with the title #GREENFLUENCERS, developed and submitted by our Spanish partners, LA VÍBRIA INTERCULTURAL was successfully approved! The great environmental and sustainability issues the planet is facing have been on the current political agenda of governments, organizations and entities for years. #GREENFLUENCERS project is closely linked to […]
Great news for EKO!! The Erasmus+ KA205 project “Intercultural Action Competence Tool” (InterACT) applied by our German partner, KulturLife, has been approved! InterAct is a very ambitious and challenging project, that aims to make intercultural learning – which takes place mostly in nonformal settings and in a quite often implicit way – explicit and embedded into a comprehensive learning process, […]
Haven’t we all been affected in some way by the pandemic that plagues the planet? Don’t we or shouldn’t we experience this new crisis as an opportunity to reorganize our strengths and reinvent ourselves as professionals? EKO team was very proud to be able to participate in this very interesting and informative webinar focusing on the consequences of the pandemic on Youth NGOs. The […]