Host your VET mobility in Athens — we handle everything.

What exactly is included in the hosting package?

Airport transfers on arrival and departure, local transport throughout the stay, accommodation as a hotel, hostel or apartments, meals, a full hands-on activity programme in your students’ vocational field, visits to real partner companies, cultural visits and excursions, and documentation support for the Learning Agreement and Europass. It reaches you as one package from a single Erasmus+ host organisation in Greece, rather than as a list of things you have to arrange separately from abroad.

How large can our group be?

One package, any group size. Whatever the size of your group, you get one complete, professionally run package from arrival to departure; what changes is the content, which follows your students’ vocation and your dates.

Do you need a VET accreditation to host our VET group?

No. EVEC is accredited in the Erasmus+ KA1 Youth field (2023-1-EL02-KA150-YOU-000188397) and holds an active ESC Quality Label (2023-1-EL02-ESC50-QLA-000195138). No VET-specific accreditation is required either to host VET groups or to partner on KA2 — which is why an organisation accredited in Youth can be your Erasmus+ host organisation in Greece for a VET mobility.

What does it cost?

We don’t publish a standard price, because there is no standard programme. Accommodation is matched to your group and your budget, and the activity programme is built around your students’ vocation, so the offer follows the stay you actually want. Tell us the group, the field and the dates in the form below and we come back with a tailored hosting offer.

How long should the mobility be?

That is not ours to decide, and it is worth knowing why. The Erasmus+ programme rules for your Key Action set which durations are allowed, and your own grant agreement fixes what your project may actually run. We are not the ones setting that limit — the programme is. So the honest answer to how long is: as long as the rules for your action allow. What an Erasmus+ host organisation in Greece decides is not the length but what goes inside it.

You set the dates and we build around them. As a reference point, the most recent group we hosted — 14 students from Umetnička škola Niš — spent two weeks with us on a full programme built entirely around their school’s craft, ceramics.

Our vocational field is not on your list. Is that a problem?

No — ask us. Robotics, urban farming, vertical agriculture (soil-based, hydroponic and aquaponic), entrepreneurship and circular economy, digital marketing, art and ceramics, culinary, hospitality and service are a few of the fields we work with, not a closed list. The programme is built around your school’s vocation, and we tailor it to your curriculum.

What do the students actually take home?

Real practical skills, a certificate of participation, intercultural experience, confidence and motivation, and a genuine European mobility. The learning happens by doing rather than by watching: hands-on work at EVEC, real projects, and visits to real companies in their field, guided by professionals.

We are not sending a group. Is there still a reason to talk to you?

Yes. EVEC also joins KA2 cooperation partnerships, bringing ready-to-share methodology and content — built around microgreens, and expanding into mycelium, drones and solar — and we have already co-delivered a KA210 small-scale partnership, the youth-strand Himmeli Creation, with Poland. If your mobility belongs to a different Erasmus+ strand, the group links at the top of the page lead to Youth, ESC, School Education, Adult and Sport.

We are still writing our project. Can you help?

Yes, and it is separate from hosting. From concept to submission we help you shape a VET project around a methodology that works — structuring priorities, work packages and outputs, and reviewing your drafts. You stay the author and owner. As the next Erasmus+ cycle approaches we also share what we’ve learned applying for and delivering projects, so your organisation can build towards running its own mobility.

Where in Greece are you based?

In Athens — Polifimou 17, Zografou 157 71. That is where your students work hands-on at EVEC, and local transport is included throughout the stay for the company visits and cultural excursions.

How quickly will you get back to us?

Within a maximum of two working days. That holds whether you are asking for a full hosting offer or only checking whether we could take your group at all. Response time is a fair thing to check before you commit to any Erasmus+ host organisation in Greece, so we would rather state ours than leave you guessing. Our office at Polifimou 17, Zografou is open every working day from 09:00 to 16:00, Athens time, if you would rather know when your message lands somewhere staffed; the two-working-day answer holds whenever it arrives.

Which countries have you worked with so far?

Since 2017 we have run 20+ Erasmus+ and ESC projects with groups and partners across Europe: Greece, North Macedonia, Poland, Serbia, Bulgaria, Romania, Spain, Denmark and Austria. The most recent VET group we hosted came from Serbia — the ceramics students of Umetnička škola Niš. Treat that list as a record of where we have worked so far rather than a boundary. If your country is not on it, send us the vocation and the dates anyway.

Our field has nothing to do with microgreens. Does the EVEC Method still apply?

Yes, because the EVEC Method is an approach rather than a subject. What it says is that complex scientific research can be turned into something anyone can understand and use, and that learners get there by doing: hands-on workshops, real projects and real company visits. Microgreens is simply the theme we have built out most fully — green skills, circular economy, healthy living, urban farming — with mycelium, drones and solar following behind it. The approach travels; the theme is whatever your students are training in. That is what lets us build a serious programme for a robotics class or a ceramics class, even though our own system is built on microgreens.

What does building the programme around our curriculum actually involve?

It means starting from your vocational field instead of from a catalogue. Nothing is pulled off a shelf: the hands-on work your students do at EVEC, the partner companies we take them to visit and the practical tasks they are set are all chosen to sit inside the field they are training in. A ceramics school works clay, as the group from Niš did; a robotics group works robotics. That is why we ask for the vocation before anything else, and why two schools travelling on identical dates would not receive identical programmes from us. It is also the work an Erasmus+ host organisation in Greece has to do before your group arrives, not while it is here.

What should we have ready before we write to you?

Not much, and that is the point. The two things we need are the ones only you can supply: the vocation your students are training in, and the window you want to travel in. Add the size of the group if you already know it and we can go straight to a tailored hosting offer instead of a round of clarifying questions.

Everything else — whether accommodation is a hotel, a hostel or apartments, how the activity programme is shaped, which partner companies you visit, where the cultural excursions sit in the programme — is what an Erasmus+ host organisation in Greece works out from those answers. And if you are still writing the project rather than delivering it, that is a conversation we have too.

Why go through one organisation instead of arranging the pieces ourselves?

Because of how much you would otherwise have to hold in your head. Every item in the hosting package can be booked separately from abroad, in a language you may not read, with a separate confirmation to chase for each one and nobody answerable when two of them clash. Arranged through a single Erasmus+ host organisation in Greece they reach you as one offer, and one organisation is answerable for all of it. That is what handling everything on the ground is meant to mean: you bring the students, and the coordination stops being your problem.