About EVEC Athens
We bring tomorrow’s science to today’s young people.
EVEC Athens is a non-profit that turns modern research into hands-on learning — starting with microgreens, and growing from there. Accredited by Erasmus+ and the European Solidarity Corps, working across Europe from the heart of Athens.
▢ photo — Zografou / campus life / growing (with consent)Our story
How EVEC began.
EVEC Athens was founded in 2017. Our focus sharpened during the COVID-19 pandemic, when we watched the young people of Zografou change how they live — choosing healthier food, heading to the gym, playing sport on the student campuses around us.
We decided to meet them there and add something new: microgreens. From that one idea we built a complete educational ecosystem around microgreens, and earned our Erasmus+ and ESC accreditations to take it across Europe.
Mission & vision
Why we do it.
To bring innovations and modern scientific research that benefit human life to young people — and show them the best way to put them to work in their everyday lives.
Today our method lives in microgreens — green skills, healthy living, entrepreneurship, sustainability. Next, we’re building the same ecosystem around mycelium, drones, and solar.
How we work
The EVEC Method: science made simple, learning made real.
We take complex scientific research and turn it into something anyone can understand and use — especially young people. We learn by doing: hands-on workshops, real projects, and content that reaches thousands through our articles and channels.
We’ve turned around 500 scientific papers on microgreens into roughly 150 plain-language articles on microgreens.org.gr that ordinary people actually read and use.
Mycelium
Drones
Solar
Our accreditations
Accredited, vetted, and trusted across Europe.
Two European accreditations sit behind everything we do. They’re not easy to get — they’re a signal that EVEC has been checked and trusted to deliver quality.
Erasmus+ KA1 Youth Accreditation
This is a long-term mark of quality from the Erasmus+ programme. It confirms we have a vetted youth strategy and streamlined, ongoing access to fund youth mobility — youth exchanges, activities, and youth-worker training.
ESC Quality Label
This certifies that we meet the European Solidarity Corps’ standards to host and support volunteers safely and well.
Impact & track record
What we’ve done — and who we’ve done it with.
Partners across 9+ countries
7 long-term ESC volunteers across two projects
Our first accredited ESC project hosted 5 volunteers — from Spain (×2), Italy, Poland and Slovakia. Our second hosted 2 more, from Spain and Italy. They lived in Athens and helped build our microgreens activities, content and community.
Places are open right now →Erasmus+ traineeships from across Europe
We host Erasmus+ trainees from across Europe — our first intern came from the University of SS. Cyril and Methodius in Trnava, Slovakia, joining our team in Athens.
microgreens.org.gr
An open library of plain-language articles, growing guides and toolkits, freely available to educators and young people across Europe.
Visit microgreens.org.gr →Partners & networks
We don’t do this alone.
We work with Greece’s National Agency and with partner organisations across Europe. There’s room here for yours, too.
INEDivim · Hellenic National Agency
Inkluzivni Pokret · Serbia
Young Improvers (YIYD) · Bulgaria
EVEC Štip · North Macedonia
Europalmente · ItalyWant your organisation listed here? Become a partner →
Get involved
There’s a place for you here.
Organisations & institutions
Partner with us across VET, schools, adult education, sport — or on Horizon Europe.
Trust & contact
Officially recognised, easy to reach.
Co-funded by the European Union
📍 Non-profit NGO · Zografou, AthensYouth accreditation, valid to 2027.
Host · support · lead roles. Valid to 2027.
Our EU organisation IDs.
Based in Zografou, Athens.
Partners across Greece, North Macedonia, Poland, Serbia, Bulgaria, Romania, Spain, Denmark & Austria.
Views and opinions expressed are those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the EU or EACEA. Neither the EU nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.
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