EKO is happy to announce that one more amazing training course  has been successfully completed. The project “It’s All Green to Me” united 24 young participants from Portugal, Greece, Belgium, Croatia, Netherlands, Cyprus, Hungary and Italy. It was organized by the Italian organization PlanBe (Plan It, Be It), and took place in Pedoulas (Cyprus) from 3  to 10 of May2023. 

Aims & Objectives of the project 

The project aims to gather youth workers to gain knowledge in eco practices, environmental sustainability, and green management. They learned about civic and governmental initiatives in the environmental field. They acquired knowledge in the entrepreneurship field and they went further and deeper into social entrepreneurship. Knowledge, resources and opportunities about Erasmus+ were learnt by participants as well. 

More specifically the objectives were:

• – creating awareness about environmental problems 
• – share awareness on eco- friendly practices 
• – to prevent pollution and enhance the conditions of environment 
• – build a more sustainable and green Europe 
• – to find alternative ways of reusing existing materials 
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Workshops & Activities of the project 

Through this project, participants had the opportunity to get better in some key competencies such as multilingual competence, personal, social and learning to learn competence. During  the week, they worked with a non-formal methodology, with dynamics,  they worked in small groups, had creative workshops, presentations and brainstorming with the others. They could use business model canva and elevator pitch as tools to level up the entrepreneur’s competence. In summary, all team members developed different skills and competencies while acquiring new knowledge. They were able to develop skills such as a sense of initiative, creativity, teamwork, the ability to energize, practice languages, reflection and critical thinking… and definitely lots of certain skills.  

An amazing opportunity and great experience for EKO’s team

Eirini, Vasileios, and Georgios were the members of this amazing Greek team whom we really wanna thank for all their contribution and collaboration throughout the project!

As EKO, we are very grateful for that amazing opportunity given to the Greek team and we thank our partner Plan Be and the members of the hosting organization for all their hard work and for creating such an impactful project!

Thank you – Ευχαριστούμε