The
Organisation for European Programmes and Cultural Relations (OEPCR), as the operator of the “Creative Europe Desk Cyprus”, the “CERV Cyprus National Contact Point” and as the Head of the Cypriot Network of the Anna Lindh Foundation, organises an
online info session of the Call for Proposals
“Rights of the child and children’s participation (CERV-2025-CHILD)”.
Date and time: Thursday, 27 March 2025, 11:00am – 12:30pm
Language: Greek
Platform: ZOOM (after registering)
Registration (free): https://tinyurl.com/y2m8xe99
The online info session is open to beneficiaries of the European programmes represented by OEPCR, who intend to prepare and submit a proposal. The session is open to governmental authorities, governmental local and regional authorities, state organisations or companies, public organisations, civil society organisations, non-governmental and non-profit organisations, associations, academic and research institutions, whose work is relevant to the call’s topics, and which are based in Cyprus and Greece.
The first part of the session includes an introductory presentation of the
EU Programme “Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values” (CERV), followed by a presentation of the call
“Rights of the child and children’s participation (CERV-2025-CHILD)” which aims at supporting, advancing and implementing comprehensive policies to protect and promote the rights of the child, including the right to participate. The event will also feature a
brief presentation on the Anna Lindh Foundation, highlighting the opportunities it provides for fostering intercultural dialogue and collaboration across the Euro-Mediterranean region.
In the second part of the session,
Mrs Veroniki Krikoni, Project Coordinator and
Mrs Amerissa Giannouli, Youth Worker and Researcher of
Inter Alia, will present the CERV-funded project
“YEP – Youth Participatory Ecological Planning for Social Justice, Democracy, and Well-being (CERV-2024-CHILD)”, a project which is related to topic of engaging children in democratic life. For more information on the project, please visit the
Inter Alia webpage here.
Through the presentation, participants will have the opportunity to learn more about project management and implementation methods of EU-funded projects.
Inter Alia is a Civil Society organization founded in Athens in 2013 and activated at local and European level. The name of the organisation, “Inter Alia”, means “among others” in Latin. Based on a philosophy of cooperation and reciprocity “Inter Alia” works to advance political education, social transformation and collective action.
The workshop aims to:
- help applicants in getting a deeper understanding of the call’s priorities and objectives;
- strengthen applicants’ skills to approach the call more effectively, enhancing the competitiveness of their applications;
- assist applicants in understanding the evaluation process to improve their proposal’s success chances;
- provide applicants with information on effective project management and implementation methods;
- give applicants the opportunity to expand their network.
Programme:
- Introductory presentation of the EU programme “Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values (CERV)”
- Presentation of the Anna Lindh Foundation
- Presentation of the Call for Proposals “Rights of the child and children’s participation (CERV-2025-CHILD)”
- Presentation of the CERV-funded project “YEP – Youth Participatory Ecological Planning for Social Justice, Democracy, and Well-being (CERV-2024-CHILD)”
Mrs Veroniki Krikoni, Project Coordinator, Inter Alia
Mrs Amerissa Giannouli, Youth Worker and Researcher, Inter Alia
Veroniki Krikoni, Project Coordinator, Inter Alia
Veroniki has been developing and managing projects and activities in the cultural and creative sectors since 2010. She specialises in the fields of European integration with a geographical focus on the Balkan region. For her work she became co-recipient of the 2018 EESC Civil Society Award on Cultural Heritage. She is one of the inspirers of the Creative Europe co-funded series of project European Cultural Heritage On Stage (ECHO), designing it, implementing it nationally and coordinating fit internationally from 2018 – 2025. Since 2012 she is also actively involved in composing, editing and submitting calls for proposals for EU Funded Programmes (Youth in Action Programmes, Creative Europe, Europe for Citizens, European Cultural Foundation, European Fund for the Balkans). Veroniki has lived in Italy, Poland and the Netherlands and has travelled extensively in the Balkan Peninsula. As a volunteer herself, she is co-founder of the regional organisation Balkans Beyond Borders contributing to the cultural diplomacy sector through the power of image and new media. She is a holder of the Joint Master of Arts on European Cultural Studies completed under the Erasmus Mundus Euroculture Programs and has completed a BA on International and European Studies.
Amerissa Giannouli, Youth Worker and Researcher, Inter Alia
Amerissa Giannouli is a youth worker and researcher. She has experience in participatory spatial planning and community engagement and as a certified non-formal learning educator, she has created, coordinated and facilitated a variety of activities in Greece and beyond. She holds a BSc in Economics and a M.Sc. in International and European Economic Studies from the Athens University of Economics and Business. She has a master’s degree in Degrowth: Ecology, Economy and Policy from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. She is also an external advisor in the Municipality of Kalamata as a youth worker, member and coordinator of the International Degrowth Network leading the Transformative Learning Circle of the network.
