EDUCATION-TRAINING

“Intercultural Dialogue & Youth: Challenges – Competences – Best Practices” A transnational experiential workshop for Hons students

25January2025fotoessaEDUCATION-TRAINING

What a unique experience! Fotoessa is thrilled to announce the successful completion of our 10-hour Intercultural Dialogue Workshop at Deree – The American College of Greece! The workshop, led by Nageh Ali Hosni Khalifa from Egypt and Aspasia Protogerou, both certified Intercultural Citizenship Education trainers from the Anna Lindh Foundation, created a vibrant space for

“ACT FOR A BETTER FUTURΕ!” an Erasmus+ Youth Exchange Project for a “sustainable intercultural interaction”

30September2024fotoessaEDUCATION-TRAINING

Fotoessa had the privilege to participate as a partner in the Erasmus+ Youth Exchange Project “ACT FOR A BETTER FUTURΕ!” designed to raise awareness among young people about environmental protection and sustainable living and -most importantly- to turn young participants into actors and leaders who will work for the achievement of Sustainable Development Goals

Permaculture seminar in Fotoessa’s garden

3June2024fotoessaCIVIL SOCIETY, EDUCATION-TRAINING

On June 2nd, Fotoessa, with a consistent focus on promoting SDGs, hosted sensitized fellow citizens who came to get to know permaculture (permanent culture). Practical botanist, Mania Vranopoulou, shared her recent inspiring experience from an Erasmus+ project in the permaculture community REGEN Habitat in Puglia, Italy and presented the basic principles and applications of permaculture.

“Visual Bridges” transnational workshop on Ethical Photography, Intercultural Dialogue and Artivism

9March2024fotoessaEDUCATION-TRAINING

Intercultural dialogue is all about building “bridges”. Ethical photography and artivism are excellent tools to make those bridges visible. Following this principle, and true to its mission to bridge Academia and Civil Society, Fotoessa organized the “Visual Bridges” transnational workshop on Ethical Photography, Intercultural Dialogue and Artivism, in Athens, 7 & 8 March 2024. This

Presentation of ALF Intercultural Citizenship Education tools to the students of the School of Humanities, University of the Aegean

30November2023fotoessaEDUCATION-TRAINING

The House of Europe in Rhodes and Fotoessa PC, in collaboration with the Linguistics Laboratory of the Department of Primary Education at the University of the Aegean, under the auspices of the Greek Network of the Anna Lindh Foundation, and on the occasion of the Mediterranean Day, organized an event to present the tools and

“Out of the Box”: all day Intercultural Workshop for Spanish students from Fundació Llor hosted by SCI Hellas’

29November2023fotoessaEDUCATION-TRAINING

Is there any greater happy feeling for an Intercultural Trainer and youth worker than to witness her young participants’ ranking as their top values empathy, friendship and will to be better? That was one of the positive outcomes Fotoessa’s John (Yannis) Sourelis and Aspasia Protogerou enjoyed on the 29th of November 2023, while facilitating the

“A New Gender Era”: Online session on gender stereotypes and the role of media

4November2023fotoessaEDUCATION-TRAINING

On the 4th of November 2023, Fotoessa’s co-founder, Yiannis (John) Sourelis, and Intercultural trainer, Aspasia Protogerou, participated in a four-hour online session organized by the Gender Alliance and specifically, from George Nikolaidis, Adult Educator and Coordinator of the organization Gender Alliance and Andriana Nikoloulia, Psychologist – MSc Social Psychology – Gender Alliance. The training session

Intercultural Dialogue workshop for NGO “People of Love” volunteers

13October2023fotoessaEDUCATION-TRAINING

On October 6, Fotoessa organized an intercultural workshop for the volunteers of the non-profit organization “People of Love” (https://www.lovepeople.gr). In the hospitable space of the “Hatzivei School”, volunteers shared the experience of intercultural dialogue, by participating in original interactive activities, under the guidance of intercultural trainer Aspasia Protogerou and coordinator Yiannis Sourelis. The creative group,

“Frame the Change”: Ethical Storytelling & Photography Training by femLENS

25September2023fotoessaEDUCATION-TRAINING

More than ever, the power of image, as a means of influencing either positive or negative, is evident. Visual communication and storytelling is a great tool to bring focus to vital issues and to stimulate positive social change, but also bearing great responsibility, especially in the hands of civil society organizations like Fotoessa. Yannis (John)