EDUCATION – TRAINING
Since 2016 Fotoessa has been active in non-formal education. The training seminars and workshops organized by Fotoessa’s certified trainers and instructors are theoretical, practical, experiential and interactive, as well as seminars that provide certifications. The training seminars mainly concern the promotion of intercultural dialogue and the development of intercultural skills (Certification by the Anna Lindh Foundation in Intercultural Citizenship Education), social and creative entrepreneurship (Certification by the University of Manchester in CSEP), the strengthening of civil society, the empowerment of young people’s participation in social and public life, the consolidation of human rights and the promotion of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (2030 Agenda).
Fotoessa is an authorized trainer of trainers for the Creative & Social Entrepreneurship Program (CSEP) of the In Place of War (IPOW) awarded organization of the University of Manchester.
Guardians of the Coasts – Meeting AIMM: Scientific knowledge for life beyond the shoreline
16/10/2026 Our meeting with Patrícia Nogueira from AIMM – Associação para a Investigação do Meio Marinho showed that coastal protection ...
Guardians of the Coasts – Visit to Comporta: Tourism Development, Natural Resources and Public Coastal Access
Sustainable development needs more than environmental promises. On 15 October, the Greek Erasmus+ Guardians of the Coasts team met Cesário ...
Guardians of the Coasts – Meeting Movimento Reabrir a Galé: Public Beaches, but Accessible to Everyone?
15 October 2026 | Field visits to Galé–Fontainhas, Melides, Portugal A beach can remain public in law while becoming increasingly ...
Guardians of the Coasts – Meeting SOS Quinta dos Ingleses: When civil society stands up for the natural environment
14 October 2026 | Coastal protection begins with land use Coastal conservation goes beyond removing litter or managing the beach itself ...
Guardians of the Coasts – Meeting Brigada do Mar: From Beach Clean-ups to environmental education
On 14 October, the Greek Guardians of the Coasts team learned about Brigada do Mar, a Portuguese organisation combining coastal ...
Guardians of the Coasts – Visit to Cabo da Roca: Managing fragile rocky coastlines
13/10/2026 | Coastal protection involves different natural processes in different places. At Cabo da Roca, the westernmost point of Europe, within ...
Guardians of the Coasts – Dunas da Cresmina and Cascais Ambiente: Protecting dunes while maintaining public access
13/10/2026 Context of the visit Coastal dunes are not merely features of a landscape. They support native biodiversity, regulate sand ...
Guardians of the Coasts: From Greece to Portugal – Shared Coastal Challenges, Collective Responses
Portugal | 12–16 October 2026 From the dunes of Cascais to the beaches of Comporta and Melides, the Greek team ...
Guardians of the Coasts – Workshop 5: “Challenges & Tools for Active Citizens ”
Active Citizenship in Practice: When Resilience Becomes a Group Responsibility On 30 September 2026, FOTOESSA hosted the fifth experiential workshop ...
“Personal Identity & Shared Values”: Intercultural Dialogue Workshop for high-school students in Turkey
From 22 to 28 September 2026, in Uşak, Türkiye, as Human to Human GROWTH, we had the opportunity to contribute ...
ALFinMotion – Mobility for Partnership: From Field Research to the Co-creation of a New Educational Bridge between Greece and Tunisia
The seven-day mobility of FOTOESSA and ATAC within the framework of ALFinMotion – Mobility for Partnership, hosted by FOTOESSA in ...
Guardians of the Coasts – Workshop 4: “Collaboration Tools for Activists”
The fourth experiential workshop of the European "Guardians of the Coasts" project was implemented on 20 August 2026 by FOTOESSA ...
Guardians of the Coasts – Workshop 3: Beaches – From Collective Memory to Shared Vision
Collective memory as a tool for co-creating the future of our coasts What is worth carrying forward from the beaches ...
Guardians of the Coasts – Workshop 1: Sharing Stories from Our Beaches
When storytelling becomes a tool for strengthening active citizenship How does a citizens' initiative emerge? How does it evolve over ...
“Guardians of the Coasts”: Workshop Training and Participation in City Nature Challenge 2026 with HCMR
As part of the activities promoting the goals of the Erasmus+ program "Guardians of the Coasts," Fotoessa participated in the ...
“Guardians of the coasts”: meeting the inspiring activist Yannis Makridakis
Fotoessa participated in the inspiring presentation of Yannis Makridakis from Chios, a prolific writer, authentic ecologist, experienced activist and active ...
Launch of the “Guardians of the Coasts” Erasmus + Program
Fotoessa is pleased to announce the launch of the project "Guardians of the Coasts", an Erasmus+ KA210-ADU Adult Education & ...
“The importance of International Organizations in our time – Academic simulations as a tool to enhance youth participation” by RhodesMRC
We had the honor of attending the highly engaging event organized on the occasion of the 15th anniversary of RhodesMRC, ...
Seminar on gender-based violence by G4All in the Municipality of Vari, Voula, Vouliagmeni
Fotoessa members, Yiannis Sourelis and Aspasia Protogerou participated on March 9 in the training "From gender stereotypes and discrimination to ...
Peer-to-peer training: “Crafting impactful projects – a guide to intercultural project management”
Fotoessa members, John Sourelis and Aspasia Protogerou, had the privilege to attend the peer-to-peer e-learning of the ALF Hands-On training ...
“Intercultural dialogue over coffee!“ webinar for ALF Network in Luxembourg
Intercultural dialogue needs to be fun, among others! Aspasia Protogerou, certified intercultural trainer, had the great opportunity to test this, ...
“Intercultural Dialogue & Youth: Challenges – Competences – Best Practices” A transnational experiential workshop for Hons students
What a unique experience! Fotoessa is thrilled to announce the successful completion of our 10-hour Intercultural Dialogue Workshop at Deree ...
“ACT FOR A BETTER FUTURΕ!” an Erasmus+ Youth Exchange Project for a “sustainable intercultural interaction”
Fotoessa had the privilege to participate as a partner in the Erasmus+ Youth Exchange Project “ACT FOR A BETTER FUTURΕ!” ...
“The pot rolled and found its lid”: A participatory puppets play on conflict resolution “born” in the frame of an ALF Mobility for Creativity Programme
July 18 - August 20, 2024: A month-long creative residency and fruitful intercultural collaboration resulted in an ingenious puppet play, ...
Permaculture seminar in Fotoessa’s garden
On June 2nd, Fotoessa, with a consistent focus on promoting SDGs, hosted sensitized fellow citizens who came to get to ...
“Media Literacy for Women Empowerment” paper – A focus on Greece and Tunisia
ALF in Motion – Mobility for Knowledge Media Literacy for Women Empowerment “You are only free when you comprehend, otherwise ...
“The AGORA toolkit for creative entrepreneurship” workshop in the frame of the EESD Forum 2024 in Rhodes
26 March ’24 - The House of Europe in Rhodes in collaboration with the Chamber of Dodecanese and Europe Direct ...
“Visual Bridges” transnational workshop on Ethical Photography, Intercultural Dialogue and Artivism
Intercultural dialogue is all about building “bridges”. Ethical photography and artivism are excellent tools to make those bridges visible. Following ...
Presentation of ALF Intercultural Citizenship Education tools to the students of the School of Humanities, University of the Aegean
The House of Europe in Rhodes and Fotoessa PC, in collaboration with the Linguistics Laboratory of the Department of Primary ...
“Out of the Box”: all day Intercultural Workshop for Spanish students from Fundació Llor hosted by SCI Hellas’
Is there any greater happy feeling for an Intercultural Trainer and youth worker than to witness her young participants’ ranking ...
Intercultural Dialogue workshop for NGO “People of Love” volunteers
On October 6, Fotoessa organized an intercultural workshop for the volunteers of the non-profit organization "People of Love" (https://www.lovepeople.gr). In ...
“Frame the Change”: Ethical Storytelling & Photography Training by femLENS
More than ever, the power of image, as a means of influencing either positive or negative, is evident. Visual communication ...
“Bridging Boundaries”: Media Literacy training to empower Civil Society orgs
The Portuguese organization Aequalitas, and fellow ALF member, led an innovative 12hrs training course aiming to empower civil society organisations by ...
“Challenging Perception and Suspending Judgment” on line intercultural workshop for Youth Workers
Following the “Change is a Journey” Irish Youth Workers’ Erasmus+ mobility program which took place in Greece on April 2023, ...
Intercultural Workshop for SCI Hellas’ Young Volunteers
On 15 June 2023, Aspasia Protogerou, certified Intercultural Citizenship Education trainer and John (Yannis) Sourelis, Fotoessa’s cofounder and training facilitator, ...
“Gender Identity & Violence when Empowering the Youth” (GIVEN) Erasmus+ program
18-28 May 2023. Fotoessa’s co-founder, John Sourelis, and Intercultural trainer of trainers, Aspasia Protogerou, participated in the 10 days SCI ...
“Change is a Journey” – Irish Youth Workers in Greece with Erasmus+ Youth Worker Mobility program
Fotoessa had the great privilege to participate in the Erasmus+ Youth Worker Mobility program: “Change is a Journey” - Irish ...
Presentation of the Creative and Social Entrepreneurship Programme (CSEP) at the workshop on “Innovative educational programs for vulnerable groups” of “NGO Competence” ERASMUS+
Fotoessa participated in the workshop organized by the Greek Network for the Fight against Poverty on "Innovative educational programs for ...
“From gender stereotypes to gender-based violence”: Interactive discussion
YMCA Athens and the Gender Alliance Initiative co-organized an interactive discussion on February 22, proposing alternative and educational tools on ...
INTERCULTURAL WORKSHOP on SOCIAL RESILIENCE for Young Volunteers in the Municipality of Saronikos: “Exploring PERCEPTION”
Members of small, regional communities - and especially young people - face significant and accumulated challenges due to problematic education, ...
Fotoessa participating in Greek Antipoverty Network’s Erasmus+ program: “NGO Competence – Improving the competences of NGO educators for social inclusion”
We had the privilege to share our experience from the successful transnational program BeMyVoice ("Be my Voice") for the support ...
Experiential Workshops on INTERCULTURAL DIALOGUE and SOCIAL RESILIENCE for EDUCATORS of the Municipality of Saronikos
In Palaia Phocaea of the Municipality of Saronikos, within the framework of the events for the 100 years since the ...
Conclusion of the “Intercultural Competences Development Workshops” Deree – The American College of Greece, Nov’21
Conclusion of the “Intercultural Competences Development Workshops” Deree – The American College of Greece, Nov’21 We, at Fotoessa, are so ...
Spoken Word masterclass for young volunteers
The volunteer of Fotoessa, Ioulitta Soureli, participated in two transnational, online seminars on spoken word, for young volunteers, organized by ...
Intercultural Capacity Building Training Program: “Identity and Interculturalism: From Me to We”
Cities are on the frontline for promoting diversity, inclusiveness, social cohesion, and sustainable development and the coronavirus pandemic has even ...
“INTERCULTURAL CAPACITY & TEAM BUILDING”: The “Pilot training in Intercultural Citizenship Education in the Euro-Mediterranean region” project in a Greek private company
On 6, 8 and 9 September 2021, in the framework of the Anna Foundation Lindh (ALF) program "Pilot training in ...
Intercultural Workshop in Rhodes, in the framework of the meeting of the National ALF Network, Sep 2021
On September 12, 2021, in the framework of the National Meeting of the members of the Anna Lindh Foundation’s network ...
Intercultural Workshop within “BeMyVoice” Τransnational Μeeting in Luxemburg
On 27 July ’21, during the transnational meeting in the frame of Anna Lindh Foundation’s “Be My Voice” programme in ...
Intercultural Citizenship Education in Paros within the “Women on islands, Motors of Sustainable Tourism” Program
What could be in common among Paros' Civil Society members, a women's entrepreneurship enhancement program in Sustainable Tourism and the ...