European Village

European Village is a Greek NGO established in Athens in 2006. It aims at spreading ideas and supporting actions regarding social and collaborative economy and sustainable development. The association empowers people through non-formal educational activities, sensitization events and vocational training courses.

Firstly involved in intercultural dialog and exchange of good practices in Europe through hosting and sending European volunteers (EVS) and participating in international meetings, it has progressively extended its activities in the fields of social innovation, living together, non-violent communication and poverty alleviation in order to meet the needs of people, still strongly impacted by the consequences of the 2008 global financial crisis and by the current migrant crisis.

From 2010, European Village run a cooperative café in an emblematic and popular borough of Athens, in which it organizes talks and debates dealing with social current issues and free Do-It-Yourself workshops addressed to all target groups. Since 2015, it has also strengthened its action towards vulnerable people by setting up an itinerant and social food truck (Nomadiki Kouzina) providing food and warmth to disadvantaged people.

Since 2017, the association is developing its activities in the field of non-formal education at both national and european level. Thanks to the knowledge it has acquired and to the opportunities that it offers to people, the association aims at preventing the rising of social tensions due to the misunderstanding of the Stranger and of the Difference in an uncomfortable social and economic context.

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