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 MoreWhile 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? […]
EKO and Caritas Hellas For Human Rights with Volunteering4Youth Social Hub in Kypseli Market, Athens (Greece) 10 December, 2019 In the context of our Youth Club activities, EKO’s volunteers Gaia and Rosaria prepared, coordinated and implemented an intercultural dialogue & exchange on Human Rights. The event was organized in collaboration with Caritas Hellas and took place in their hub in […]
European Development Network (EDN) Summit 2019 25 November- 2 December 2019 / Brussels, Belgium A little time before 2019 is over, EKO joined the European Development Institute-EDI Summit, together with 33 other civil society actors from all over Europe, to work on the expansion of the European Development Network -EDN that supports its members create international effective cooperations and projects, […]
EKO and Tandem Arts & Crafts Inclusion Workshop for Christmas Pikpa, Athens29 November, 2019 EKO decided to celebrate the International Day of People with Disabilities and the International Volunteer Day having fun! Our volunteers […]
EKO PARTICIPATES IN PANEL DISCUSSION ABOUT RIGHT-WING RADICALIZATION Entrepreneurship and Social Economy group (EKO) is proud to announce that our President, Dr. K. Panourgia, has been invited as a panel speaker, in the upcoming conference on “Radical Political Engagement in Southeast Europe” (21-22 November 2019, Athens, Greece), by Friedrich Erbert Stiftung (FES). FES is the oldest non-profit political foundation in […]
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 […]
We are proud for the new developments of EKO’s role in the centre of the civil society work for youth empowerment in Greece. We are honoured to have been selected by the Greek National Agency of Erasmus+ to participate in the TCA Seminar “APPETIZER – An introduction on how to use the ‘Erasmus+ Youth in Action’ Programme for international youth […]
EKO participated actively in the 3rd transnational partner meeting of SCRCE, monitoring the progress of the cross border circular economy project. During this meeting, which took place on the 17th and 18th September 2019 in Goteborg, Sweden, the partners identified the major challenges enterprises and initiatives, who are trying to operate in accordance to circular economy principles are facing, on […]
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 […]
Our association, EKO Greece, was the Greek partner in the ERASMUS + KA1 Youth Exchange Project ”Path to success” which took place in Vienna, Austria, from 1-8 July 2019, and was organized by our colleagues and friends from the organization PS: EUROPE (Political and Social Research Institute of Europe). This project was a transnational initiative which united thirty-six (36) young […]