During September 8-12, the Italian organization Associazione Onlus Erinna, accredited in Erasmus+ programs, visited Karditsa as part of its collaboration with Educom+.

🎯 What was discussed:

👉At the Women’s Center of Karditsa: Director Kaiti Velessiotou and her team discussed with Italian colleagues women’s support services and tackling gender-based violence.

👉At MM Education Center https://www.facebook.com/EducationCenterKarditsa they explored ways to raise awareness among students on gender issues through non-formal education approaches.

🌍 Educom+ also hosted representatives from the Italian NGO “ProMETEUS” (based in Viterbo) https://www.facebook.com/associazioneculturaleprometeus/ for joint actions targeting the educational community (teachers and school heads) and primary / school students.

An important initiative strengthening international cooperation for promoting gender equality!

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.