Educom+ is proud to share an open call that started as a national initiative in Greece and is now reaching out to the world!

👉Aephoric Poetry 2026 is a collective poetry action in the English language, inviting foreign language institutes in Greece / Cyprus and Educational institutions abroad and young learners from any country to participate. It is initiated by our member, MM Education Center (Maria Michael, Karditsa), and carried forward with the support of Educom+.

📍The theme is “Message in a bottle” — Embracing the world around us and within us.

At the heart of the action lies the concept of ‘Aeiphoria’: taking care of my world today, without taking anything away from the world of tomorrow. Through poetry, students are invited to express what they carry within — their hopes, their relationship with nature, their sense of responsibility toward the future.
🔹 Open to students aged 8–18, from any country
🔹 Up to 10 poems per school, up to 40 lines each
🔹 Handwritten, authentic work only — No AI Policy
🔹 Children aged 8–10 may include a drawing alongside their poem
🔹 Submission deadline: 10 July 2026
🔹 All entries published in the Aeiphoric Poetry e-Book 2026 — to be issued with ISBN
🔹 Award ceremony in Karditsa, Greece — October 2026
🔹 The Award Ceremony will be hybrid: in person for those who can join us in Karditsa, and online for participants from anywhere in the world

Every voice matters. Every school, wherever it is, can be part of this.

Let your students send their message in a bottle – to the world.

✦ Participation is completely free of charge ✦

👉No fees apply at any stage — submitting, publishing, or receiving the e-Book.

🌍 Join our global community today!

📧 contact: [email protected]

📍 MM Education Center | Kapodistriou 28, Karditsa, Greece | +30 2441029129

About the Author: Georgia Karagianni

Georgia is an English teacher with further training in educational psychology, inclusive education, counselling and teaching Greek as a foreign language. She has participated in many European projects (Erasmus+ KA2 & KA3) producing intellectual outputs on intercultural education, inclusive practices, creativity, pedagogical exploitation of digital tools, environmental education, and more. She has served for five years as Head of the Department of Educational Affairs in the Directorate of Secondary Education of Karditsa Prefecture. She holds an MA in “New Forms of Education and Learning”, an MA in “Language Education for Migrants and Refugees”, and a PhD in Open and Distance Learning from the Hellenic Open University, with her research focusing on digital metacognition and learning autonomy. She is a teacher trainer in Erasmus+ KA1 mobility courses and a trainer and syllabus creator at the Center of Lifelong Learning of the Hellenic Open University. She is currently serving as an EFL Education Consultant for Primary and Secondary Education at the Directorates of Education of Trikala and Karditsa, Greece.