Projects

Support and empowerment of social vulnerable groups and their right to health and medicine access

Project Promoter: GIVMED

Relative Call: Vulnerable groups empowered

The objective of the project is to empower socially vulnerable groups on the following bases: 1.Informing them of their rights regarding healthcare. 2.Providing education in terms of handling medicines and medication compliance. 3.Facilitating their access to the medicines they need through a specific application for smartphones. In order to...

Repower

Project Promoter: Hellenic Paralympic Committee

Relative Call: Vulnerable groups empowered

Project Duration: 24 months

People with disabilities are not a homogeneous target group. Even though the international regulatory framework has recognized the importance of fulfilling their needs, as far as the sector of human rights is concerned, it has disregarded through history the subgroup of refugees and immigrants with disabilities. This specific group...

Support for women suffering from cancer through comprehensive education and psychosocial support of their caregivers

Project Promoter: Achaia’s Association of Women with Breast Cancer “ALMA ZOIS”

Relative Call: Vulnerable groups empowered

Project Duration: 24

Taking care of women with breast cancer is a highly demanding task, which enforces their 24-hour monitoring, involving their family members as care-givers, who are being asked to offer nursing services as well as psychological support. As a consequence, care-givers have to deal with their physical, emotional, psychological and...

e-TALOS

Project Promoter: Corporation for Succor and Care of Elderly and Disabled-Frodizo

Relative Call: Strengthened civil society advocacy and watchdog role

It has been found that the existence of inequalities in access to health services related to social factors as well as geographical ones (Economou et al, 2016; Zafiropoulou et al, 2017) is greater in vulnerable groups such as those aged over 65 and with chronic diseases. Advocacy is considered...

Digital RiSe (Digital Rights & Security)

Project Promoter: Homo Digitalis

Relative Call: Strengthened civil society advocacy and watchdog role

Project Duration: 5

New technologies could assist the Greek law enforcement authorities in combating crime. However, the use of such technologies shall be in full compliance with the applicable European legislation and case-law of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), so that the Fundamental Rights of Privacy and Data...

Priority to Nature

Project Promoter: Green Tank

Relative Call: Strengthened civil society advocacy and watchdog role

Project Duration: 6

The targeted advocacy campaign “Priority to Nature” of the environmental think tank “The Green Tank” aims to influence the new political framework to halt the loss of biodiversity, with an emphasis on Greece. Biodiversity loss is a crisis unfolding before our eyes. It is paramount to take immediate measures...

Coastal zone advocacy web platform

Project Promoter: Save Coast

Relative Call: Strengthened civil society advocacy and watchdog role

Project Duration: 6

Legislation and regulation regarding coastal zone protection and management are diffused in several authorities. Collaboration of competent authorities and Citizens is not always efficient. Citizens and stakeholders aren’t timely informed nor encouraged in participating to decision-making procedures regarding a) the management of coastal activities b) coastal infrastructure design c)...

Art and Culture Vs Xenophobia

Project Promoter: Artifactory

Project Duration: 9

“Art and Culture Vs Xenophobia” is a project to tackle the phenomenon of xenophobia and hate speech, due to lack of inclusion and tolerance towards the ‘Other’, with Art and Culture as tools. The project includes a) Research and collection of good practices through an open call to civil...

Small Buddies

Project Promoter: Challedu

Relative Call: Strengthened civil society advocacy and watchdog role

Project Duration: 19

CSR Institute(2016) underlines that only 65 companies produced CSR report. Despite the fact that SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) constitute a European Directive, only 26% of total budget addresses social causes. Small or new NGOs are rarely funded by CSR (National Social Research Center,2015). According to companies high cost, lack...

Practices and Perspectives in Intercountry Adoptions

Project Promoter: International Social Service – Hellenic Branch (ISS – Hellenic Branch)

Relative Call: Strengthened civil society advocacy and watchdog role

Project Duration: 18

The project concerns intercountry adoption and at this stage we are interested in the processes that exist for the realization of an intercountry adoption. Greece, in the middle of the last century, was a sending country of children for adoption in in Europe and the USA. Towards the end...