YOUTH SAY NO! TO GENDER BASED VIOLENCE

Youth Say No! To Gender Based Violence  Youth Exchange 17/04/2023 – 21/04/2023 in Guimarães, Portugal  EKO is happy to announce that one more amazing youth exchange has been successfully completed. The project “Youth Says No! To Gender Based Violence” united 35 young participants from Portugal, Greece, Romania, Spain and Latvia. It was organized by the Portuguese organization ADDHG, and took […]

JOUR-YOU: Local Training in Egypt

“JOUR-YOU” 3-day Local Workshop was successfully implemented in Cairo, Egypt on May 21 – 23, 2023! The workshop was organized in the context of the KA2 “Citizen Journalism Academy” project, funded by Erasmus+ programme, which aims at promoting citizen journalism and media literacy as a means of effective participation in society, and at enhancing the leadership and organizational skills of […]

Find Your Story – Workshop

On Thursday 14/7 the workshop “Find your own story” took place in Athens organized by the participants of the training course”ABCDEFGH” that took place in Bulgaria from 1/7/2022 to 10/7/2022. Konstantina, Zeta, Virginia, Sotiris and Lydia shared all the knowledge and experiences they gained through non-formal and experiential learning and theatrical activities.More specifically, the workshop started with some name games […]

COVID-19 crisis and EU’s response

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? […]

Press Release: EKO’s and IAPD International Photo Contest & Photo Exhibition Event

EKO’s and IAPD International Photo Contest & Photo Exhibition Event“Peacemakers: Through your world I see mine”Athens, Greece27 October, 2019 EKO in collaboration with the International Alliance for Peace and Development co-organized the photo exhibition in Athens, Greece, on October 27, 2019, on the theme “PEACEMAKERS: Through Your World I See Mine”. The goal of this initiative was to tackle xenophobia […]

Our Youth Projects

EKO, the Entrepreneurship and Social Economy Group, is a Non-Profit Organisation seated in Athens, Greece, in the fields of non-formal education, life-long learning, youth empowerment and the promotion of intercultural dialogue, active, through local activities and Erasmus+, European Solidarity Corps, European programs and EU funds. For more information about our Erasmus+ programs, click HERE! To find out more about our […]