DO IT – Education and Covid-19 in Greece
A research by the 2nd Vocational School of Katerini (partner of the DO-IT project) The reality of the new Covid-19 coronavirus and the effects of the pandemic on international level form an unprecedented setting for citizens and organized societies. International education systems were called upon to take on the responsibility of moving to a new…
EPRS online policy roundtable | Well-being in the pandemic: Living with the coronavirus crisis
On the 22nd of February, the European Parliamentary Research Service (EPRS) organised the online policy roundtable aiming at presenting and disseminating the OECD’s recently published report “Well-being and Covid-19: Life in the pandemic”. Online Policy Roundtable The event, introduced and moderated by Jutta Schulze-Hollmén, Director for Resources of the EPRS, was broadly focused on the implications of the…
DO-IT KEY CHALLENGES
Outcome of the Lost in Migration Conference Local Hubs 2021 As a result of local hubs organised in the context of the Lost in Migration conference, run by Missing Children Europe and The Malta Foundation for the Wellbeing of Society, the participants have come up with a Paper on the Key Challenges faced by children in migration. The conference…
DO-IT SECOND MEETING
Transnational Partner Meeting The TPM was hosted by Red Incola, a non-profit organisation, built as an association in 2006, and as a Foundation in 2011. The general board is composed of nine religious entities, connected in a collective network to carry out a joint mission: supporting the immigrant population in risk situations of exclusion, in…
DO-IT First transnational meeting
The consortium of the DO-IT project – a KA2 project co-founded by the Erasmus Plus Programme – carried out the first Transnational Partner Meeting in Katerini (Greece) from 5th to 8th September 2021. The Transnational Meeting has been hosted by the 2nd Vocational High School of Katerini, a school that serves around 600 students,…
DO-IT project: Kick-off Meeting
Ecepaa, Fundacion Red Incola, Associazione Joint, The 2nd Vocational High School of Katerini and AMECE (from now on “the consortium”) have decided to deepen the theme of social inequalities, exclusion, education disparities, and digital divide of a particularly vulnerable group: young people with migrant origins, through the development of the DO-IT project. On July 5th…
DO-IT PROJECT APPROVAL
DO-IT PROJECT APPROVAL Associazione di promozione sociale Joint is partner of DO-IT, a KA2 project co-founded by the European Union under the Erasmus Plus programme, and approved by the AEF Europe, the French-speaking Agency for education and training, as submitted to the extraordinary Call for Proposals “Partnerships for Digital Education Readiness” in response of the…
Brains on the run: a complex phenomena of early school leavers
Monitoring early school leavers in Europe: EU targets and prospectsEarly school leaving in the European Union represents an obstacle to both economic and employment growth. A high rate of early school leavers can represent a symptom of other socio-economic problems and create a barrier for young people that want to enter the labor market. This…
IHAVET: Short-term training meeting in Katerini
During the week of the 4th of October, members of different organizations that worked on the IHAVET project as well as students with a migrant background, parents and youth workers travelled to Katerini (Greece) to test prove the toolkit produced. This meeting was the last step towards the conclusion of our project. The goal of…
ApartTogether survey. An interview with Eva Spiritus-Beerden
by Tamara Hegyi, 4th October 2021 The COVID-19 pandemic has had serious impacts on our lives. We have never experienced a phenomenon like this before, so studying its effects is crucial in order to better understand what is happening and what we can do in the future to better help and support those people that…