CYCLADES UNIFIED is a non-profit organisation established in 2024, in Greece. Its members offered volunteer work on the island of Kimolos for five consecutive years.
CYCLADES UNIFIED Educational general scope is to offer high quality non-formal education for youth and adults islanders in the small islands of the Cyclades. It supports actions about the Cycladic Islands in the Aegean Sea, using storytelling as the tool of recording Cycladic memory. Its aim is to highlight cultural heritage, tradition, and practices leading to a sustainable future for the young. Its mission serves awareness through the expanding of networks related to environmental protection, as the connecting link with young, islanders and tourists to achieve sustainability for the years to come.
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Students Mobility
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- Sending Students Abroad
Teachers Mobility
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CYCLADES UNIFIED Team has developed and implemented workshops and projects in the Cyclades aimed to educate the youth and adults on the issue of tackling cultural heritage, environmental issues encouraging leadership and entrepreneurship among youth, as well as promoting voluntary activities and active citizenship in the EU. Since our organisation's foundation, we have participated in a series of workshops and lectures with the municipalities and schools. Through the years, we have successfully organized and completed a series of programs/projects focusing on sustainability and plastic ban; targeting the empowerment for social and personal development. Being an official member of the CYCLADORAMA initiative along with 48 ngos we work as part of the group to sustain vulnerable Natura regions, especially on the island of Polyaigos. Specific goal 1: to improve the quality of public services related to youth empowerment on environmental issues, in the Cultural Sector within the networks of the transnational association, organizing exchanges of good practices and exploring areas of self-employment within the participating countries, sharing experiences, and multiplying positive actions at the local level. Currently CYCLADES UNIFIED takes part in the RESILIAGE Project Associated CORE Lab https://resiliage.eu/the-newly-appointed-core-associated-labs/?fbclid=IwY2xjawJjn-JleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHs-rW1W-cC8uZvrjFcZsCghz5cMejg28bu2QbCz6wlq-3TPkrvf_IdaW4s61_aem_l5zPhUn9U90Y4ATt-NuTDw territories with the view to develop new ideas and activities within the community. The 2 year project strives towards the achievement of sustainable change and awareness on the issue of climate change on Heritage monuments and relates to Kimolos Medieval Castle and its restoration. Development, equipping youth workers with knowledge, key competencies, and learning tools needed for the development and delivery of community-based projects. The job shadowing activities will offer a reciprocal opportunity for practical learning experience, good practice exchange, key competences acquisition, long-term partnership building. The overall goal was to engage youth workers to step up into leadership roles in their local and global communities as agent and multipliers for sustainable co-development and growth. The organization was selected for a 5-month mentorship program as part of the #EasyVisi Project, "Visibility and Dissemination Toolbox for NGOs," implemented by TERRA TECH Förderprojekte e.V. from Germany, LifeZone Group from Estonia, My Madeira Island from Portugal, and Clictic S.L. from Spain.