🌱 Growing a Healthy Future with Microgreens – Youth Worker Edition
🇪🇺 16–22 December 2025 | Athens, Greece
🌍 Microgreens • Youth Work • Innovation • Christmas Magic
Spend five days in the center of Athens, learn how to grow and teach microgreens, create real educational tools, and design a new Erasmus+ green skills project, all while enjoying the city’s Christmas atmosphere.
⭐ At a Glance
📅 Dates:
- Arrival: 16 December 2025
- Training: 17–21 December 2025
- Departure: 22 December 2025
📍 Location: Athens, Greece (City Centre)
👥 Participants: Youth workers, educators, young leaders
🌐 Countries: Greece, North Macedonia, Serbia, Italy, Bulgaria
🎯 Key Results:
- 📝 Digital Guide for Growing Microgreens at Home
- 🎒 Toolkit for School & University Workshops
- 🚀 Toolkit for Young Microgreens Entrepreneurs
- 📘 KA220 Project Concept (Green Skills)
🌿 What This Project Is About
This training builds on our successful youth exchange and supports the long-term goals of EVEC’s Erasmus+ Youth Accreditation.
Over five days, you will actively work with youth workers and young people from five European countries to:
- 🌱 learn how to grow microgreens through real hands-on sessions
- ✍️ turn practical knowledge into high-quality educational tools
- 🤝 collaborate internationally to design a KA220 project
- 🎄 explore Athens during the Christmas season
👤 Who This Training Is For
This project is ideal for:
- 👩🏫 Youth workers
- 🧑🎓 University students involved in youth initiatives
- 🎒 NGO staff & volunteers
- 🌍 Young community leaders
- 💡 Young people interested in green entrepreneurship
No previous experience in microgreens is required — just motivation and curiosity.
🌱 What You Will Actually Do
🔧 1. Grow Microgreens from A to Z
You will:
- 🔩 assemble a growing rack
- 💡 install LED lights & ventilators
- 🌿 prepare trays and compare soils
- 🌾 seed various microgreens
- ✂️ harvest microgreens grown at EVEC
- 📦 wash, pack, and label them
You’ll document every step with photos and notes, forming the content for the Digital Grow Guide.
📘 2. Create a Digital Guide for Growing Microgreens at Home
Together with the group, you’ll create a complete guide covering:
- 🌱 equipment needed
- 💧 watering and lighting basics
- 🐛 how to avoid common problems
- 🥗 nutritional benefits & simple recipes
- 🌍 sustainability tips
- 🧼 food safety
This guide will later be graphically designed and published.
🛠️ 3. Create Two Youth Worker Toolkits
🎒 Toolkit A: Microgreens in Schools & Universities
For short workshops during school visits.
Includes:
- 🔬 mini science activities
- 🥗 tasting and sensory sessions
- 🎨 youth-friendly creative tasks
- 🌍 health & sustainability messages
- 🤲 inclusion adaptations
🚀 Toolkit B: Microgreens for Young Entrepreneurs
For free workshops in EVEC’s office.
Includes:
- 💼 basic business planning
- 💸 simple cost calculation
- 🏷️ branding & packaging ideas
- 📱 digital marketing basics
- 🤝 cooperative & group models
Both toolkits will be easy to use, practical, and ready for immediate implementation.
📘 4. Design a KA220 Erasmus+ Project
On the final day, you will collaborate internationally to design a KA220 project on:
- 🌿 green skills
- 🌱 microgreens & urban farming
- 💡 youth entrepreneurship
- 👥 inclusion
- 🔗 digital education
You will outline objectives, activities, partner roles, and the structure of the project that EVEC will submit in Greece.
🎓 What You Will Learn
- 🌱 Urban farming skills
- 🧪 Practical teaching methods for youth
- 🧭 Workshop facilitation
- 💼 Green entrepreneurship basics
- 🤝 International cooperation
- 📘 Erasmus+ project design
- 🧠 Youthpass competences
All participants will receive a Youthpass certificate.
🏨 Practical Information
📍 Location & Atmosphere
The training takes place in central Athens, close to:
- 🎄 Christmas markets
- 🌆 Syntagma Square lights
- 🏛️ Monastiraki & Ermou
- 🍲 street food & cozy cafés
Perfect for evening walks and intercultural bonding.
🛏️ Accommodation & Meals
- Shared rooms
- Lunch, and dinner included
- 🥗 Vegetarian & vegan options available
Exact accommodation details will be confirmed soon.
✈️ Travel
Travel dates:
- Arrive: 16 December
- Training: 17–21 December
- Depart: 22 December
Travel Budget (round trip):
- 🇧🇬 Bulgaria – 285 EUR
- 🇲🇰 North Macedonia – 285 EUR
- 🇷🇸 Serbia – 309 EUR
- 🇮🇹 Italy – 309 EUR
Travel is reimbursed after the activity according to Erasmus+ rules.
🎒 What to Bring
- 👟 Comfortable clothes
- 🥿 Indoor shoes for workshops
- 💻 Laptop or tablet
- 🪪 Passport/ID
- 🧼 Personal items
- 🍫 Snacks or small national gifts
- 🔋 Good energy
Microgreens equipment is provided by EVEC.
⭐ Short Daily Agenda
📅 16 December – Arrival Day & Orientation Walk
Participants arrive in Athens and settle into the accommodation. In the evening, we meet for an informal orientation walk around the neighbourhood:
- 🗺️ Getting to know the area
- 🌆 First look at Athens Christmas lights
- 🍩 Street-food tasting (optional)
- 🤝 Light social activities to get to know each other
A soft and friendly start before the working days begin.
🌱 17 December – Day 1: Practical Microgreens Lab + Drafting the Guide
A fully hands-on day.
- 🔧 Assemble rack, install LED lights & ventilators
- 🌿 Prepare trays, compare soils, seed microgreens
- ✂️ Harvest microgreens grown earlier in EVEC
- 📸 Document each step with photos
- ✍️ Afternoon: Create Draft 1 of the Digital Growing Guide
💡 18 December – Day 2: Finalising the Digital Growing Guide
Deepening your knowledge with practical solutions.
- 🐛 Troubleshooting (mold, weak growth, watering errors)
- 🌍 Zero-waste & sustainability methods
- 🥗 Nutrition basics & simple recipes
- 🖼️ Add visuals, diagrams, and structure
- 📘 Finish the final version of the Growing Guide
🎒 19 December – Day 3: What Are Toolkits? + Drafting Two Toolkits
Understanding youth worker methodologies.
- 📚 Introduction to non-formal education toolkits
- 🧑🏫 How youth workers use toolkits with different age groups
- ✍️ Team drafting:
- Toolkit for Schools & Universities
- Toolkit for Young Entrepreneurs
🛠️ 20 December – Day 4: Finalising Both Toolkits
Bringing the toolkits to life.
- 📝 Complete workshop plans & activity formats
- 🎨 Create worksheets, visuals, facilitator notes
- 🧠 Add Youthpass competence links
- 🎒 Final versions of both toolkits are completed
📘 21 December – Day 5: KA220 Project Design Day
Full collaboration day.
- 🎯 Define project objectives
- 🧩 Develop work packages & partner roles
- 🔗 Integration of green skills, inclusion & digital components
- ✈️ Outline international activities and timeline
- 📑 Create the KA220 Project Concept for next Erasmus+ deadline
🎉 22 December – Departure Day & Youthpass Certification
Before departure, participants receive their Youthpass certificates:
- 🧠 Reflection on learning outcomes
- 🏅 Recognition of competences
- 📸 Final group photo
- 👋 Farewell and departures
A warm closing to an inspiring week in festive Athens.
📬 Contact
For more information:
📩 erasmus.evec@gmail.com
🌐 www.evec.org.gr
