YiA18 NGO

YIA 18 is trying to extend opportunities of local youth to self-express themselves in physical and intellectual fields, and actively participate by developing and implementing local youth projects. We want to contribute to societal changes by providing supplementary educational activities, as voluntarism and non-formal education methodologies. Our organization is the most active Greek NGO into the field of Erasmus+ D.E.O.R (dissemination & exploitation of Erasmus+ results), since 2013. Additionally, our organization fosters the competence of self-initiative, through its members. We are conducting informational campaigns into the topics of Erasmus+, entrepreneurship and creativity. The pool of trainers, is also actively engaged to promote digital competences & environmental awareness. Finally, as an accredited educational sending organization we are supporting several projects abroad, by selecting the most motivated delegates. Most of our members are interested into youth entrepreneurship topic, thus we have adopted a transparent selection procedure of participants, which follows an open call for interested individuals. Activities & experience: YIA 18 is a newly formed organization, which has been established on 3rd November 2015. YIA 18 NGO, emerged as an outcome of our former informal group of volunteers and youth-workers, which was initiated in 2013. YIA 18 has been involved in rural youth development through its Youth Eco-clubs and summer sport camps. The organization's members have already participated into multilateral European initiatives, as Erasmus+ projects, which were focused into community and rural development. YiA 18 organization fosters the competence of self-initiative, through its members. We are conducting informational campaigns into the topics of Erasmus+, entrepreneurship and creativity. Recently, our organisation's members have also conducted a successful awareness campaign, upon the hate speech issue. At the moment we are planning language courses for refugees, alongside with cultural workshops for the vulnerable groups of the city.