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CYE23 Reports / Visits / Photo exhibition & exchange

Photo exhibition on the LGBTQI+ refugee experience & exchange with young activists of Thessaloniki

This exhibition presents portraits and stories of people who are both LGBTQI+ and refugees and therefore face a double stigma. It is part of a wider project, which gives people with a refugee background the opportunity to speak for themselves. For their part, ActionAid members presented their organisation to the audience. Read more...

Svolou’s Neighbourhood Pocket Park. Ηow green, communal spaces activate a neighbourhood

This park is an emblematic example of bottom-up urban intervention with a reputation going beyond the city's borders. Unfortunately, however, today the park presents a disheartening picture of decay and abandonment. During our visit we were informed of the reasons, the main one being the low involvement of the local residents themselves. Read more…

CYE23 Reports / Visits / Pitch & Screening

Pitch on re-energizing youth for socially just climate policies & film screening

At the office of the Heinrich Böll Foundation, Chris Vrettos from Electra Energy coop proposed ways to overcome indifference and regain our power, using energy communities as an example. This was followed by a screening of a fiction film about the effects of climate change. Read more...

CYE23 Reports / Visits / SSE walking tour

Walking among Alternative Economic Initiatives of Thessaloniki

The approximately 15 participants of the tour saw parts of Thessaloniki through the eyes of cooperative initiatives of the Social Solidarity Economy and neighborhood initiatives that sprang up during the financial crisis in Greece, as a collective way to meet needs in a participatory and democratic way of decision-making. Read more…

Walking among Alternative Economic Initiatives of Thessaloniki

ΑΡΘΡΟ

A different tour of the western side of Thessaloniki was made by young people from all over Europe who came to Greece to participate in the 8th Congress of Young Europeans organised by the Heinrich Böll Foundation, Thessaloniki office, on 19-22 October 2023. The participants of the tour saw parts of the city through the eyes of cooperative Social Solidarity Economy and neighbourhood initiatives that sprang up during the crisis as a collective effort to meet needs in a participatory and democratic way of decision making.

By Stavroula Poulimeni

10 years of Heinrich Böll Stiftung in Thessaloniki

ANNIVERSARY PUBLICATION

In June 2012, the Heinrich Böll Foundation established its office in Thessaloniki and in June 2022 completed 10 years of presence in Greece. Now we present this rich ten-year journey in an anniversary publication, which includes highlights from the hundreds of events and activities that have taken place. Through this bilingual publication, the reader will be able to get a full picture of our actions and interventions, to better understand what a political foundation is, but also to get to know the quests of contemporary political ecology and the effort to come together with the quests of Greek society itself.

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