Panellinios Sundesmos Epixiriseon Hlektronikon Efarmogon, Pliroforikis kai Neon Texnologion (Greek Association of It, Telecom Applications & New Technologies Companies in English) is an NGO established in 2010 in Siatista. Members of the Association are ICT companies and innovation clusters from all over Greece. The Association’s primary objective is to support its members through its activities in order to promote their further development as enterprises and as well as their socioeconomic impact into the society. It has participated in National and European Projects, both as partner and as Lead Beneficiary, such as Erasmus+, Eramsus+ Youth, Interreg, Leader+, etc. It has extensive experience in working with and for different target groups, amongst which is the current project’s one; the Association has used ICT to foster social and economic inclusion of disadvantaged groups mainly through training activities and information and dissemination activities.
Panellinios Sundesmos Epixiriseon Hlektronikon Efarmogon, Pliroforikis kai Neon Texnologion is a project partner from Greece and will work closely with other partners for the implementation of activities and also for the achievement of its goals and objectives. It will participate in all conferences and meetings, and also will participate in the dissemination of the project through its wide network of partners and organizations. Also, it will participate in the evaluation of the whole project.
Other EU grants
Please list the projects for which the organisation, or the department responsible for the management of this application, has received financial support from the EU Programme during the last three years.
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Reference number | Beneficiary Organisation | Title of the Project
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| Erasmus+ | 2017-2-EL02-KA205-003332 | Social Innovation & Cohesion Institute | Become Busy – BB |
| Interreg IV IPA Cross-border Programme “Greece-The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia 2007-2013” | 301644/ΜΑ4234/2015 | Greek Association of IT Telecom Applications & New Technologies Companies | Support Cross Border Entrepreneurship/ Transnational Business Consultant |
| Interreg IPA Cross Border Cooperation Programme “Greece- The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia 2014-2020” | CN1 – SO1.1 – SC034 | Greek Association of IT Telecom Applications & New Technologies Companies | Increase Innovative Business in Sea, Environment & Agriculture and IT – IBiSEAit |
| Europe for Citizens | 602046-CITIZ-1-2018-EL-CITIZ-CIV | Social Innovation & Cohesion Institute | Civil Society Solidarity Movement – CI.SO.MO. |
| Erasmus+ | 2022-2-EL02-KA220-YOU-000100095 | Greek Association of IT Telecom Applications & New Technologies Companies | reBOOTCAMP – Real IT Bootcamps for Youth |
| Erasmus+ | 2024-1-EL02-KA154-YOU-000239964 | Greek Association of IT Telecom Applications & New Technologies Companies | e-DEVOY – e-Democracy: Empowering European Youth Voices |
Technical Capacity
Experience of the project organisers in the field concerned (Max. 2000 characters):
The Social Innovation and Cohesion Institute is an organization of civil society aiming to help individuals, communities and institutions to develop their skills, improve their performance and share knowledge to meet the challenges of society and thus contribute actively to the development of local, regional and European society. Due to its activities the Institute has a fair amount of interaction with vulnerable groups including migrants, and asylum seekers.
Panellinios Sundesmos Epixiriseon Hlektronikon Efarmogon, Pliroforikis kai Neon Texnologion has managed through its activities to combine two important fields: ICT entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial training to support disadvantaged group of individuals to equip them with skills and experiences, to empower them to boost self esteem, self confidence and reintegration to socioeconomic life. This has been done by planning and organizing activities (implemented either in the framework of EU projects or own initiatives) that aim to empower migrants, marginalized individuals (ex – convicts, ex – drug addicts, etc), unemployed, social excluded individuals (people with disabilities, people with mental health issues, etc), women victims of domestic violence and youth with fewer opportunities.
The DRPDNM partner works daily on the integration of socially excluded groups and is really active on Social, educational and cultural exchanges with partners from home countries of minorities (international cooperation in the South-Eastern Europe. Its offices serve 100 people from vulnerable groups in daily basis.
The Association „European Projects in Bulgaria” has implemented successfully projects on migration.
The EU DIASPORA COUNCIL partner daily deals with youngsters from different social and economic backgrounds fostering the idea that the most relevant goal of our common activities is learning from each other, at cultural and personal level.
All associated partners have previously implemented projects on migration and their members act as active citizens in their local level.