Bring your adult learners to Athens — learning they’ll never forget.

What does an Erasmus+ Adult Education partner actually do in a KA1 mobility?

Two different jobs, worth keeping apart. Your organisation holds the grant and brings the people. The receiving partner — that is us — handles everything on the ground: the full hands-on activity programme, the community-project visits, the cultural visits, and the practical things around them, from the airport transfers to the meals. You keep the grant and the ownership. We take Athens.

Does our Erasmus+ Adult Education partner need its own accreditation to host us?

No. We don’t need our own accreditation to host you — the accredited KA121-ADU, or the short-term KA122-ADU project, sits with your organisation as the sender. Our own Erasmus+ KA1 accreditation is in the Youth field, not adult education, and we keep that in plain sight rather than blur it. For adult education we act as your eligible KA2 partner and your host in Athens. That is what being your Erasmus+ Adult Education partner means in practice, and you should know exactly which hat we are wearing before you write us into a form.

How long can the mobility be?

As long as the Erasmus+ rules for your Key Action allow, and as long as your own grant agreement provides for. We are not inventing rules — Erasmus+ already has them. Tell us the window you are working inside and we build the programme to fit it, rather than nudging you towards a length that happens to suit us. That is the difference between an Erasmus+ Adult Education partner that serves your project and one that serves its own calendar.

How fast do you reply, and where are you?

We answer every enquiry within a maximum of two working days. Our office is at Polifimou 17, Zografou 157 71, Athens, open every working day from 09:00 to 16:00 if you would like to arrange a visit. If you would rather begin in writing, the form at the foot of this page reaches exactly the same people.

What is included in the hosting package?

Airport transfers, local transport, accommodation — hotel, hostel or apartments — meals, the full hands-on activity programme, community-project visits, cultural visits across Athens, and learning-outcome records for your Europass Mobility. One package, any group size, organised by us as one single offer. Bundling it is deliberate: an Erasmus+ Adult Education partner should be taking work off your project, not adding to it.

Our learners are older adults. Will this really work for them?

It is built for exactly that. The workshops are gentle, social and easy to join at any pace: adults grow microgreens from seed to plate, cook and taste what they grow, and pick up green everyday habits and a little digital confidence along the way. The cultural side is paced with the same care — the Acropolis at an easy pace, the step-free galleries of the Acropolis Museum, shade in the Ancient Agora, a gentle day at sea. We choose the visits with you, so nobody is rushed and nobody is left out.

We have done this before: in a 2026 community project in Spain, our team led a hands-on session with a local seniors’ group.

Can you work on a theme that has nothing to do with microgreens?

Yes. Microgreens is our proven flagship, but the transferable thing is the method: turning complex science into hands-on learning adults engage with. That same approach already runs through mycelium, drones and solar, and it adapts to social inclusion, community building, active citizenship and intercultural learning just as readily. Any adult-education theme is welcome — your project leads, and we adapt our methodology to it.

What proof is there that you deliver your work packages?

“Reducing Pollution & Empowering Youth through Himmeli Creation” — a KA210 small-scale partnership with Poland, where EVEC delivered its own work packages in full. It sits in the youth strand rather than adult education, and we would rather point you at a real delivered project in the wrong strand than at an impressive-sounding one in the right strand. Behind it stand 20+ Erasmus+ and ESC projects since 2017, with partners in Greece, North Macedonia, Poland, Serbia, Bulgaria, Romania, Spain, Denmark and Austria. That record, rather than a pitch, is the case for choosing us as your Erasmus+ Adult Education partner.

We want to write the application ourselves. Will you still help?

Gladly — that is the version we prefer. We help you structure priorities, work packages and outputs, and we review your drafts, while you stay the author and the owner. What we will not do is ghost-write a complete project as a turnkey product, because a project written by someone else tends to be delivered by nobody. A good Erasmus+ Adult Education partner makes your application stronger; it does not quietly make it theirs.

Should we host a group, or invite you in as our Erasmus+ Adult Education partner on a KA2?

They answer different needs, and nothing stops you doing both. Hosting moves your own people to Athens for a structured learning experience under your KA1 Adult Education grant. A KA2 cooperation partnership builds something together over a longer arc, with EVEC holding real work packages of its own. If you are genuinely unsure, describe the outcome you want and we will tell you which route carries it better.

We are only at the thinking stage. Is it too early to write?

Early is better. As the next Erasmus+ cycle approaches we share what we have learned applying for and delivering projects, so your organisation can build towards running its own mobility rather than always depending on someone else’s. An Erasmus+ Adult Education partner should be making itself less necessary to you over time, not more. Opening the conversation costs you one email and, at most, two working days of waiting.