Erasmus+ hub · Athens
Erasmus+ Athens with EVEC — find your programme.
We’re an accredited Erasmus+ and ESC organisation in Athens, working across youth, vocational training, schools, adult education, sport and solidarity volunteering. Whoever you are — a young person, a school, an organisation, or an institution — there’s a way in. Start by choosing your field.
The programme & our role
Erasmus+ Athens: what the programme is — and where we fit.
Erasmus+ is the European Union’s programme for education, training, youth and sport — funding mobility and cooperation across Europe. EVEC is an accredited Erasmus+ organisation: we run our own funded youth activities, host learners and educators in Athens, partner in cooperation projects, and help others build and deliver theirs — all powered by our hands-on, science-into-learning methodology.
Find your programme
Choose your field.
Six fields, one organisation. Pick the one that fits you and go straight to its page.
Funded youth exchanges, activities and youth-worker training.
For young people, youth workers & partners Explore Youth →Host your VET mobility in Athens, or partner with us on cooperation projects.
For VET schools and providers Explore VET →Bring us into your KA2 school partnership, or get help writing one.
For schools Explore School Education →Partner on non-vocational adult learning, or host your educators in Athens.
For adult-education providers Explore Adult Education →Build a grassroots-sport partnership with an organisation that completes your project.
For sport clubs and NGOs Explore Sport →Volunteer in Athens, or send and host volunteers with us.
For young people and organisations Set to become part of Erasmus+ under the proposed 2028–2034 programme. Explore ESC →If you sit between two cards
Erasmus+ Athens, field by field: which card is yours?
Five of the six cards above are Erasmus+ fields; the sixth, ESC, is still its own programme. Real organisations do not always sit neatly inside one of them, so here is how the borderline cases untangle — and none of it is a test you can fail.
Youth or School Education?
If you are applying as a school, on the school’s own project, start on the School Education page — that is where the KA2 school partnership and the help with writing one sit. If the activity is for young people outside formal schooling, or for the youth workers around them, start on Youth. Guess wrong and nothing breaks: tell us what you are planning and we point you to the right field ourselves.
VET or Adult Education?
VET is for vocational providers: host your mobility in Athens, or partner with us on a cooperation project. Adult Education is for non-vocational adult learning — that wording is deliberate rather than decorative — and covers partnering as well as hosting your educators here. If your organisation honestly does both, tell us which grant you hold and we work from that one.
Youth or ESC?
Both put a young person in Athens, and we are accredited for both — an Erasmus+ KA1 Youth accreditation for one, an ESC Quality Label for the other. Youth is built around groups: exchanges, activities, youth-worker training. ESC is built around volunteering, either as a volunteer yourself or as an organisation sending and hosting them. They are two cards because today they are two programmes; ESC is only set to join Erasmus+ under the proposed 2028–2034 programme.
Sport or Youth?
A grassroots club with a youth section can honestly go either way. If the subject of the project is sport itself, use Sport. If sport is the vehicle and the real subject is what happens to the young people, Youth is usually the better home for it. We can partner in either, so the choice is about where your funding sits, not about us.
None of the six?
The opening line of this page says “a young person, a school, an organisation, or an institution” on purpose. The six cards are entry doors, not a filter at the gate. If you cannot see yourself in any of them, use the enquiry form further down or write to erasmus@evec.org.gr and describe in plain words what you are trying to do.
What we offer
Five ways to work with us — in any field.
Take part
Young people and groups join our funded activities.
These are the activities EVEC runs itself, under its own Erasmus+ KA1 Youth accreditation and ESC Quality Label, so you do not need to bring a project, a consortium or an application of your own — you apply as a person or as a small group. We announce them on our news page.
Host with us in Athens
Turnkey mobilities for learners and educators.
Turnkey means the learning is designed, not merely booked: hands-on sessions in one of our fields, built for the group that is coming. We do not decide how long a mobility runs — the Erasmus+ rules for your Key Action and your own grant agreement do. Tell us your dates and we build the Athens programme around them.
Partner in your project
A reliable partner that delivers its work packages.
Partner means work packages with our name on them, delivered. Himmeli Creation, a KA210 completed with a Polish partner, is what we point at when a coordinator asks what an Erasmus+ Athens partner is actually worth inside a consortium. A letter of intent is available on request.
Get help writing a strong project
We coach and co-shape; you stay the author and owner.
Coaching, not ghost-writing. We work on the idea with you and can take a partner role in the result, but your organisation stays the applicant, the author and the owner of the project it submits.
Get ready for 2028–2034
We’ll guide your organisation towards its own accreditation.
Accreditation is what lets an organisation run its own mobilities instead of joining somebody else’s. We have been through it twice — for Erasmus+ KA1 Youth and for the ESC Quality Label — so what we tell you comes from inside the application rather than from a guide about it.
Two routes run through every sector: KA1 (mobility & accreditation — people travel and learn) and KA2 (cooperation partnerships — organisations build something together). We work across both.
How it actually goes
Erasmus+ Athens, step by step: from first email to delivered project.
Every Erasmus+ Athens project we take on runs through the same sequence, whether you are a young person applying to one of our activities or a coordinator adding a Greek partner to a KA220 close to the deadline.
You arrive with a field, or without one
Every route into Erasmus+ Athens starts on one of the six cards above: pick yours and go straight to that field’s page, where the offer is written for that audience. If you cannot tell which card is yours, skip the sorting and use the enquiry form on this page, or write to erasmus@evec.org.gr.
You tell us the project and the deadline
Two things do most of the work in a first message: what you are trying to build, and when the application is due. Add the Key Action if you know it — KA1 or KA2, KA210 or KA220 — and say which of the five roles above you want from us: taking part, hosting, partnering, coaching, or accreditation support.
We answer within two working days at the most
Two working days is the ceiling, not a target we aim at. The office keeps ordinary working hours, so a message sent on Friday evening is answered early the following week rather than over the weekend. If your own deadline is tighter than that, put the date in the first line.
We say yes or no to the actual work
This is what being a genuine partner rather than a paper partner means in practice. Before anything is signed we look at the work packages you would hand us and decide whether we can deliver them. If we cannot, we say so rather than sign, while there is still time for you to find someone who can.
The paperwork, on request
A letter of intent comes on request, and the identifiers your form will ask for — OID, PIC and both accreditation numbers — are printed at the top of this page. Copy them straight across.
We shape the content together
Then the method does the work: complex science turned into something a group can do with its hands, in whichever of our fields fits your topic. We build around the dates your grant agreement gives you, because that calendar is not ours to set.
Delivery, and the evidence of it
For hosting, delivery means a learning programme that was designed rather than assembled. For partnerships, it means the work packages come back done. The evidence is already on this page: Himmeli Creation as KA210 delivery proof, and 20+ Erasmus+ and ESC projects since 2017 with partners in nine countries.
Fit, honestly
Who Erasmus+ Athens with EVEC is for — and who it is not for.
Saying no early is cheaper for everyone than saying yes badly. Not every Erasmus+ Athens enquiry should end in a project, so here is the split, put as plainly as we can put it.
You are in the right place if
- You are a young person looking for a funded activity or a volunteering placement in Athens, and you would rather the organisation behind it were accredited.
- You are a school, a VET provider, an adult-education provider, a sport club or an NGO that needs a Greek partner for a KA210 or KA220 cooperation partnership.
- You are a sending organisation that needs an Erasmus+ Athens host for a KA1 mobility, and you want the learning content designed, not only the logistics arranged.
- You have an idea and no application yet, and you want coaching from an organisation that has delivered these before, while you stay the author and the owner.
- You intend to run your own mobilities under the proposed 2028–2034 programme and need to build towards an accreditation of your own.
Look elsewhere if
- You need a name and a PIC number to complete a consortium and nothing beyond that. We co-apply as a genuine partner and take real work packages; a signature-only role is not one we accept.
- You want the application written for you with your logo on the cover. We coach and co-shape, and we are direct about which sentences remain yours to write.
- You want somebody to invent a duration for your activity. The Erasmus+ rules for your Key Action and your grant agreement decide that, and we will not make up a number the programme has already fixed.
- You are looking for a sightseeing trip with a project name attached to it. Hosting here is a learning programme with hands-on sessions at the centre of the day.
- You need an answer inside the hour. Two working days is our maximum and the office keeps ordinary working hours, so you are answered quickly, but not instantly.
The EVEC method
One method, every field.
Whatever the sector, we do the same thing: take complex science and turn it into hands-on learning young people engage with. Today it lives in microgreens — green skills, healthy living, entrepreneurship, sustainability — and we’re expanding into mycelium, drones, and solar. Your topic works too: our method adapts to any field.
Credibility
Why partner with EVEC.
A non-profit NGO in Athens, with a steady European track record since 2017.
Before you write to us
Erasmus+ Athens: frequently asked questions.
The ones worth answering before you write.
Are the accreditation numbers real, and can I check them?
Every identifier on this page is public and quotable: OID E10172681, PIC 909448430, the Erasmus+ KA1 Youth accreditation 2023-1-EL02-KA150-YOU-000188397 and the ESC Quality Label 2023-1-EL02-ESC50-QLA-000195138. Put them in front of your national agency or paste them into your application form — they are the same numbers we use ourselves.
How long does a mobility or a project last?
This is the one question we answer without a number, and that is the honest answer: EVEC does not set durations. The Erasmus+ rules for your Key Action set them, and your own grant agreement fixes them for your project. We are not inventing rules — Erasmus+ has them already. Tell us your dates and we build around what you are allowed and intending to do.
Can I visit the office in person?
Yes. The office is at Polifimou 17 in Zografou, Athens, open every working day from 09:00 to 16:00. Partners passing through the city are welcome, and so are young people who would rather ask their questions in a room than in a thread.
One of your open calls has an old date on it. Is it dead?
No, and it is worth saying plainly because almost everyone assumes the opposite. A call keeps its Open Call tag on purpose: we leave a call open until the right volunteer applies. The date tells you when it was published, not whether it has closed. If it still says Open Call on the news page, you can still apply.
Do we have to be in one of the countries you have worked with?
No. Greece, North Macedonia, Poland, Serbia, Bulgaria, Romania, Spain, Denmark and Austria are where our partners have been since 2017 — that is a track record, not a guest list. Each of those nine was a first project once.
What is the difference between KA1 and KA2?
KA1 is about people moving: mobility and accreditation, learners and educators travelling somewhere else to learn. KA2 is about organisations building something together — cooperation partnerships such as KA210 and KA220, where the result outlives the trip. Both routes run through every sector on this page, and we work across both: hosting and taking part on the KA1 side, co-applying and delivering work packages on the KA2 side.
Do you only work on microgreens?
Microgreens is where the method currently lives — green skills, healthy living, entrepreneurship and sustainability, in something a group can grow with their own hands — and mycelium, drones and solar are being built out alongside it. The method is the thing we own, though, not the plant: bring your topic and it adapts.
We already have a full consortium. What would EVEC add?
An Erasmus+ Athens base for the activities inside your KA2, and a partner that does its work packages. If your consortium is complete and functioning, the honest answer might be nothing at all — describe the gap and we will tell you whether we fill it.
Partner with EVEC
Add a Greek partner to your Erasmus+ project.
Building a KA210 or KA220 cooperation partnership, or looking for a host for a KA1 mobility? EVEC is an accredited Erasmus+ Youth & ESC Quality Label organisation in Athens that co-applies as a genuine partner — not a paper partner — and delivers its work packages. Tell us the project and the deadline; we usually reply within 48 hours (two working days), with a letter of intent on request.
Not sure which programme fits? Let’s point you in the right direction.
Choose a field from the guide above, or write to us and we’ll connect you with the right person.
