Gr.A.C.E.: Greek German matchmaking for Active Citizenship Education in Youth Work“ PDF Print
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“Gr.A.C.E.: Greek German matchmaking for Active Citizenship Education in Youth Work“ is a new Erasmus+ Project, which will be implemented within 2018 by the Faculty of Social and Educational Policy of the University of the Peloponnese (UoP) and the Association of German Educational Organization (AdB).The project can be characterized as a Greek – German matchmaking for practitioners/trainers in youth work (and their organizations), the main aim of which is to create new partnerships and collaborations between organizations of both countries specialized in the field of youth work.

It intends to motivate professionals (educators, trainers, practitioners, etc) active in the field of youth work and focused on non-formal learning of Human Rights and democratic citizenship, included the meanings of diversity, anti-discrimination, learning for sustainable development, social work etc. Specifically,

Who is it for:

• People active in the field of citizenship and human rights education as educators, practitioners or/and trainers.
• People whose work is traversed by the principles of non-formal education.
• Anyone who is willing to share with us his knowledge, experience, educational methods and tools it may use through his/her work.
• Anyone who is willing to contribute to the dissemination and implementation of project’s results through his work.

If so, this project is for you and we would be really happy to receive your application!

What we are offering:

The project is comprised of two workshops and aims to help participants to:

• get to know the fields, topics, structures and approaches of non-formal citizenship education, learn about and visit providers/institutions, specialized in the field of non-formal citizenship and HR education for youth.
• get to know the conceptual discourse and topics driving our working fields in both countries.
• explore bridges of cooperation between participants of both countries in the field of greek - german youth exchange, learn about the planned greek - german youth office’s work and the future opportunities for collaboration it may offer.

As there is a specific funding mechanism for bilateral greek - german youth exchanges, we will also support the participants/their organizations to go first STEPS and concretely realize cooperation activities.

We expect you to have experience in youth work, be curious, active and open minded, and mainly willing to become an active member of greek - german youth exchanges.

Save the dates:

Workshop I: Berlin/Germany, 8–13 of May 2018
Workshop II: Korinth & Athens/Greece, 29th of October to 4th of November 2018

Contact and further information:

GRE participants have to contact Ms Dora Katsamori ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it )
GER Participants have to contact Mr Georg Pirker ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it )

Team members

i) Dr Despina Karakatsani (Faculty of Social and Educational Policy, UoP)
ii) Ms Dora Katsamori (Faculty of Social and Educational Policy, UoP)
iii) Mr Georg Pirker (AdB)