“Citizen Journalism Academy for Youth” Capacity Building Project approved!

EKO’s team received some great news today! The Erasmus+ Capacity Building for Youth project “Citizen Journalism academy for Youth – JOUR-YOU” applied by our Bulgarian partner, Foundation for Entrepreneurship, Culture and Education (FECE), is approved for funding! The overall objective of this project is to build the capacity of youth organisations to use innovative  tools and practices, which foster community […]

Digital skill-up: from 0 to 10 in a nutshell

Another successful story for EKO’s team that participated in the training ”Employing European Youth through Non-Formal Education: The Digital Competence Framework” which was held in Madrid from the 24th to the 30th of October  2021. 36 people from Greece, Lithuania ,Romania, Turkey and 2 organizations form Spain  joined the training which was organized by our partner YouthProAktiv! On the first […]

#Greenfluencers: Local Group Opening Event completed!

The Opening Event of the #Greenfluencers project has been successful! The Local Group of #Greenfluencers in Athens is now ready to start acting locally! During the Opening Event (July 31, 2021), the members of the local group had the chance to get to know each other, and discover each one’s green habits and environmental issues they are most concerned about […]

#Greenfluencers: 1st Training event in Azores successfully Completed

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 […]

“InterAct” Second Partnership meeting successfully completed

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 […]

“InterAct” Kick-Off meeting successfully Completed

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. […]

ERMIScom: Successful completion of Kick-Start workshop for IO7

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 […]

“Youth Finance Academy” Kick-Off meeting successfully Completed

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 […]

“Transforming COVID-19 into an opportunity” KA227 project approved!

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 […]

“#GREENFLUENCERS, Youth workers for a greener future” KA205 project approved!

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 […]