Activities EKO’s team has experience in the management and coordination of national and international projects and initiatives, including quality assurance, dissemination and sustainability planning. Our members have diverse expertise, which they utilize in conducting research, developing intellectual products and implementing trainings, on the basis of each project’s needs. YOUTH EMPOWERMENT, HUMANRIGHTS [...]
Read MoreHOMEABOUT USOUR PROJECTSOUR PUBLICATIONSNEWSWORK WITH USPIF EKO Greece Empowering Youth, Building a Better Future OUR PROJECTS 56 Approved projects 150+ Partners 7 Years of experience Stay tuned and receive updates EKO, the Entrepreneurship and Social Economy Group, is a Non-Profit Organisation seated in Athens, Greece, active in the fields of [...]
Read MoreThe 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, […]
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 […]
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, […]
Haven’t we all been affected in some way by the pandemic that plagues the planet? Don’t we or shouldn’t we experience this new crisis as an opportunity to reorganize our strengths and reinvent ourselves as professionals? EKO team was very proud to be able to participate in this very interesting and informative webinar focusing on the consequences of the pandemic on Youth NGOs. The […]
The Erasmus+ KA205 project “Start-U: Defining (inclusive) paths to star (new) lives” applied by our Portuguese partners ANJE- Associação Nacional de Jovens Empresários, has been approved for funding! Partners & Objectives Start-U will involve an international consortium of NGOs (from Portugal, Greece, North Macedonia and Croatia) that will work together to: Promote the empowerment of youth workers to improve their […]
Great news from the front! The Erasmus+ KA205 project “Youth Finance Academy” (YFA) applied by our Romanian partners, Monomyths association, has been approved! Amidst COVID-19 pandemic, which is painfully exposing the existing and persisting health, social and economic inequalities in our societies, the YFA seeks to address the urgent need for financial literacy educational programs – money knowledge, skills, and […]
The Erasmus+ KA205 project “Self-Employed Entrepreneurs meet, exchange, get results and organize work – SEE ME GR&OW” applied by our Cypriot partners YEUCyprus, has been approved for funding! SEE ME GR&OW will involve an international consortium of NGOs (from Cyprus, Greece, Slovakia, Italy and Portugal) that will work together to: promote an entrepreneurial mindset and culture among young people create […]
Our common proposal with the Department of Communication and Media Studies of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA) for the project “Common curricula for diversity: education in media and integration of vulnerable groups” (ERMIScom) was approved by the State Scholarships Foundation (IKY)! ERMIScom is a KA203 – Strategic Partnerships for Higher Education project with a consortium of 6 […]
We are happy to announce the beginning of EKO’s formal collaboration with the Department of Communication and Media Studies of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA) and the Department of Sociology of the University of the Aegean (UAegean), in the context of their common MSc program «Media and Refugee / Migration Flows»! The scope of this collaboration is […]
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? […]