The Laboratory center through multiple activities including educational EU projects always aims at the preparation and education of active citizens with European horizons and strong professional background. The staff of the Laboratory center is well educated and experienced in EU projects and is always willing to participate in new projects and face new challenges.
Previous Erasmus Project:
Erasmus+ KA2 - PAL - Pro-Active Lifestyle - PAL - 2025-2027
The main objectives of our project are to raise awareness of the negative impacts of dietary habits on human health, the importance of promoting a healthy lifestyle among young children and our existing cultural heritage through the exchange of good practices and methodologies in the study of healthier and more sustainable lifestyles among partners. We also plan to draw attention to the environment and climate change by proposing sustainable meals and various physical activities.
Erasmus+ KA2 IMPACT - Increasing Migration and Climate Change Public Awareness through Collaboration and Teaching - 2024-2026
The project addresses the priority of "Environment and fight against climate change" by building capacity and raising awareness about the impact of climate change on migration. By doing so, the project seeks to increase interest and engagement with the topic of climate change as a driver of migration both at organization and community levels. This will contribute to broader efforts to mitigate and adapt to the impacts of climate change.
The project also addresses the priority of "Supporting teachers, school leaders and other teaching professions" by building capacity thanks to the developing of the publication and the toolkit. This will support these professionals in addressing the link between climate change and migration. By providing resources and guidance, the project seeks to enhance the capacity of these professionals to address the critical issue of climate change-induced migration and the consequent social injustice.
Erasmus+ KA1 - Training and skills acquisition in international supply chains 2024 - 2025
The program involved 24 students from the Economics and Informatics sectors of the school units (EPAL) served by the Katerini Community Centre. The students traveled for two weeks to Barcelona on the topic of “Training and acquiring skills in international supply chains”. The objectives of the proposal focus on improving the knowledge, skills and abilities of the traveling students, contact with another culture, improving their digital skills, improving their language skills and strengthening inclusion.
Erasmus+ KA2 FEEL - Fostering refugEEs incLusion - 2022 - 2024
The refugee crisis that has been affecting Europe since February 2022 is putting pressure on various systems: the reception, labor market, housing as well as the education systems. The arrival of large numbers of refugees, mostly women and minors, therefore, forces the education system to take immediate responsibility for the pupils within its school buildings. This produces a number of challenges, the main one being the reception and integration of pupils of Ukrainian origin. But it also poses a more subtle and less explicit challenge. Ukrainian refugees already benefit from temporary protection status, which allows them to skip most asylum procedures and have access to all social rights, albeit for a time. In our experience, something else is also happening. As we saw recently during a project training, we are implementing (WAY) in which more than 60 professors and teachers participated, school teachers are concerned about the inequalities being created within their classrooms. As one of them recalled, assuming two pupils arrive who are both refugees but one from El Salvador and another from Ukraine, the latter will have a better chance of being integrated into the education system due in part to the enormous emotional mobilization that accompanied her arrival. Often, in fact, the arrival of a Ukrainian pupil is 'celebrated' thanks to the joint participation of the city mayor, the headmaster and the parish priest. This is not the case for other types of pupils. Teachers are thus not only faced with the challenge of integrating new Ukrainian pupils, which is already a very complex challenge, but also of avoiding discrimination between refugees and displaced persons, an aspect of symmetry between various nationalities that has also recently been highlighted by both MYRIA (https://www.myria.be/fr) and UNIA (https://www.unia.be/fr).
