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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
Our project “Countering Violent Extremism (CV-EX)” has been completed and its goals have been met with success greater than our expectations! The project focused on the complex issue of radicalization and examined the roots behind extremist behavior, including the changes in moral values, the increasing refugee and migration flows, the spreading economic crisis and the role of internet and social […]
KA1 Youth Exchange – “Countering Violent Extremism (CV-EX)”Athens, Greece14-23 November 2018 Our project “Countering Violent Extremism” (CV-EX) has been completed and its success outreached our greatest expectations! This transnational initiative, coordinated by EKO, united 42 young people from 7 different countries across Europe and the Euromediterranean basin (Greece, Spain, Turkey, Jordan, Egypt, Tunisia and Italy), and gave them the opportunity […]
We have the pleasure to announce that the project “Countering Violent Extremism” has been completed with brilliant success! This Youth Exchange program gave the opportunity to 42 young people from Egypt, Greece, Italy, Jordan, Tunisia, Turkey and Spain to explore together a phenomenon that concerns us all: Extremism in all its forms, driven by radical ideologies that give reason to […]
EKO has successfully held the Seminar “Experiences for European Youth” yesterday and informed young people about the opportunities offered by Erasmus+ programmes. Participants attended the presentation of the organisers/trainers Eva and Jaime about their own enjoyable experience with the Erasmus+ programme and how this can be beneficial for future participants. The training also included sessions on the European Voluntary Service […]