June 1, 2021

“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 […]

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May 26, 2021

Our handbook on gender-based violence prevention in youth work is now published!

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 […]

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April 9, 2021

“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. […]

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April 1, 2021

European Solidarity Corps – Volunteering Teams “Second Chance”

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 […]

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March 10, 2021

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 […]

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February 4, 2021

“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 […]

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January 19, 2021

“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 […]

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January 5, 2021

“Resources for Youth Power” ESC11 project approved!

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, […]

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December 23, 2020

“#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 […]

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December 22, 2020

“Intercultural Action Competence Tool” KA205 project approved!

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, […]

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