Engaging for Change – Game Toolkit Now Available!

We’re excited to share the official ToolKit created during the Erasmus+ seminar “Engaging for Change” held in Nitra, Slovakia, 7-13 April 2025. The seminar brought together 32 youth workers and creatives from across Europe to explore how gamification and digital tools can be used to promote youth participation, critical thinking, and active citizenship — with […]

Youth Exchange Opportunity “Play Green, Act Green” in Nitra Slovakia, 2 to 9-6-2025

Play Green, Act Green – Join the Game for a Greener Europe! Where? Nitra, Slovakia When? June 2–9, 2025 Travel grant up to 309 EUR + 100% covered food & accommodation Green travel option available! (Travel a bit slower, save the planet!) Apply by May 3rd! Are you 18+ and digitally skilled? Passionate […]

Engage for Change: U.Grow in an Erasmus+ Participation Hackathon​

U.Grow proudly took part as an official partner of Siedas in the Erasmus+ seminar “Engaging for Change”, held in Nitra, Slovakia from April 7 to 13, 2025. The project brought together 32 youth workers from various European countries, focusing on European Youth Goal #9: Space and Participation for All, while also touching on themes like […]

Call for Greek participants: Outdoor Therapy for Youth Mental Well-Βeing Training Course

Training seminar in the framework of the project “Know-Participate-Protect the Environment”

iSea* and Green Tank** organised a seminar on 4 November at 11:00am in the multimedia room of the Natural History Museum of Crete, as part of the project “Know-Participate-Protect the Environment“, which is being implemented under the Active citizens fund programme: “Citizen participation in environmental policy making – New developments in addressing biodiversity loss”. Ioli […]

5th Urban Ecology Festival

For the fifth year, the volunteer group Heraklion Eco Voice, which is active in Heraklion Crete, held the 5th Heraklion Urban Ecology Festival with the support of the Region of Crete and the public benefit enterprise of the Municipality of Heraklion, DIKEI, in the park of the Heraklion coastal road, at the theatre towards the […]

GreenTeam: cleaning up the campus with a touch of education

Heraklion, Crete: GreenTeam University of Crete carried out a clean-up action of the outdoor areas of the University of Crete, in the afternoon of April 12, which comes to represent the dynamic return of the team to active action after the pandemic. The day chosen was not a coincidence, as the swearing-in ceremonies that took […]

Cycling for the environment and NATURA sites

A cycling tour for the environment, the protection of nature and the abolition of the anti-environmental law, will be organized on Thursday in Heraklion. The action is organized by the “Citizens’ Movement of Crete for the abolition of the anti-environmental law and the protection of nature: ‘FYSITIRES’, and will take place in Eleftherias Square, at […]

Cleaning of the coastal front Kokkini Hani – Vathianos Kampos – Gournes Pedialis

Thank you to Πεδιάδα Αλληλεγγύης and all of you who came to clean the coastal front Kokkini Hani – Vathianos Kampos – Gournes Field. Volunteer groups and a total of 70 people, despite the difficult weather conditions and high temperature, joined forces for the common good! Dozens of garbage bags were collected and we helped, […]

World Volunteer Day

On the occasion of the International Volunteer Day (December 5), the Municipality of Heraklion invites the volunteer groups active in the city and in the region to inform citizens about their activities. The event will start on Thursday morning, December 5, 2019, at 10:00 and will end at 14:00, at the atrium of the Town […]