EKO implemented last Saturday, December 18th, 2021, the third and fourth modules of the series of local workshops organized in the context of the “Values and Opinions of Young Communities in Europe” – VOYCE project. The modules focused on a. “Personal & Cultural Identity” & b. “Stereotypes, Prejudices and Intercultural Communication”, and gave sixteen young people from the local community […]
In the context of the “Values and Opinions of Young Communities in Europe” – VOYCE project EKO implemented last week 2 local workshops that brought together ten Greek young people to share experiences and opinions on controversial issues, in a spirit of attentive listening and participatory sharing. The first module took place on Friday, December 3rd, 2021 and focused on […]
Technological Literacy 4.0: the way towards inclusion EKO`s delegation returned full of inspiration and new knowledge from Brussels, Belgium after their participation in the Erasmus+ Training Course “Technological Literacy 4.0: the way towards inclusion”, coordinated by the Organization YouthProAktiv (YPA). The 5 -day training took place on November 21-26, 2021, uniting 37 youth workers from 11 different countries (Armenia, Belgium, […]
ESC Volunteering in Teams – “Solidarity Overcomes Solitude – SOS” “Solidarity Overcomes Solitude” is an ESC short-term Volunteering teams project, being implemented in Altamura (Bari) in Italy from the 12th of October till the 12th of November 2021. Our short term volunteer Vassiliki Spai has started her one month volunteering teams project along with the other volunteers from different European countries. […]
The first training event of the #Greenfluencers project in the Azores has been successfully completed, after some very intense days of activities (June 14-18, 2021) with our project partners from Spain (La Vibria Interculutral), Italy (Associazione Link), Slovenia (EPEKA Slovenia) and our hosting partner from Portugal (AJITER). During this training we focused on the topic of Sustainable Entrepreneurship, and explored […]
The second partnership meeting of InterACT project has been successfully completed today! The partner youth organizations (KulturLife from Germany, EKO from Greece, yEUth from the Netherlands, Mobilizing Expertise from Sweden, Education for an Interdependent World from Belgium) presented and discussed their findings on young people’s and youth workers’ needs, in terms of tools facilitating Intercultural Action Competences (IAC) development and […]
This handbook aims to facilitate the empowerment of youth activists and youth workers who are gender diversity and LGBTIQ rights advocates to work with youth in tackling gender-based violence with inclusion, recognition, and diversity. To build an understanding about gender-based violence, its consequences, and how it can be tackled, the handbook begins by exploring the concept of gender; the relationship […]
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 […]