While Europe is facing a major health crisis with a wider social impact, the European Union is falling short in having a truly shared strategy. Although the continent of Europe has essentially become the epicentre of the COVID-19 pandemic, countermeasures were primarily enforced at a national level, with minimal coordination among EU-member states. Will European Solidarity pass the coronavirus crash-test? […]
From April 20 to April 22 2019 Egypt set a referendum for the constitutional amendments. Thanks to EKO Organization, one of our volunteers had the opportunity to go to Cairo and participate in the referendum as an international observer, together with other international observers who were part of a Delegation of legal representation before the National Elections Commission in accordance […]
We have the pleasure to announce that the project “Countering Violent Extremism” has been completed with brilliant success! This Youth Exchange program gave the opportunity to 42 young people from Egypt, Greece, Italy, Jordan, Tunisia, Turkey and Spain to explore together a phenomenon that concerns us all: Extremism in all its forms, driven by radical ideologies that give reason to […]
New updates in EKO publications! EKO publications is a section on the website of EKO that provides you with some background information on the themes and topics of our projects and those projects that we participate in. All articles are developed in coordination with the whole team, but written by members of EKOyouth, which consist of young people, students, interns […]
EKO has successfully held the Seminar “Experiences for European Youth” yesterday and informed young people about the opportunities offered by Erasmus+ programmes. Participants attended the presentation of the organisers/trainers Eva and Jaime about their own enjoyable experience with the Erasmus+ programme and how this can be beneficial for future participants. The training also included sessions on the European Voluntary Service […]
On 25 September 2015 world leaders adopted the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Each year on the anniversary of this historic day the UN SDG Action Campaign mobilizes the UN, national and local governments, youth groups, civil-society organizations, the media, and the private sector around the world with a global call to Act for the SDGs. EKO supports educational efforts, youth […]
EKO is excited to announce our participation in the KA2 project “Sustainability through Cross Border Circular Economy (SCRCE)”, which focuses on investigating the move from the traditional Linear Economy to a Circular Economy. The traditional Linear Economy is a theoretical approach to seeing the economy as a process that takes any resource – makes it into a product – sells […]