Educom+ travelled to Madeira, Portugal for the last project meeting of the Erasmus+ project: “Empower marginalized adults key Skills: a focuS on grEen, citizeNship and Community Education – E.S.S.E.N.C.E.
Three days of intensive meetings to check everything is completed before the final report.
Partners had the chance to visit beautiful places in the wonderful Madeira island, attend a conference on women’s rights at the local university, spend a day at picturesque Camara Des Lobos where there was a meeting with the Mayor and a fruitful discussion on how local associations help and contribute to the municipality’s extroversion and international networking.
Stay tuned on the publication of our project’s handbook and all interesting resources!
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.