NFF
NextFab Foundation’s mission is to promote the development and operation of Hardware Makerspaces (also known as “Fab Labs”) and Incubators scaled to support (a) humanitarian projects which target at-risk populations in conflict affected areas; and (b) hardware technology development / commercialization in select emerging markets which are well advanced on the technology continuum.
Empowering vulnerable women and youth with disabilities in the digital age
Our vision is to build a world where people thrive by realizing their full potential. Inclusion is a key component to creating a solid pathway towards achieving that goal and as we have witnessed, vulnerable women and youth with disabilities are primary victims of the lack of inclusion.This project supports vulnerable women and youth with disabilities in order to best respond to employment opportunities, by providing tailored vocational and life-skills training along with employability services.
SKILLS 4 ALL
SKILLS 4 ALL, the new action implemented under Piraeus Bank’s EQUALL programme in strategic partnership with Odyssey, is addressed to vulnerable young people and focuses on the creation of sustainable career choices through vocational training and their connection with the labour market.
It is a holistic action aiming to create added value for the beneficiaries themselves, as well as for society and the economy in general, by training and channeling human resources into sectors of the market where there is a serious shortage.
Refugee women academy
Refugee Women Academy, the new action implemented under Piraeus Bank’s EQUALL programme in strategic partnership with Odyssea, is addressed to vulnerable refugee women and focuses on their vocational training in tourism professions aiming to assist their integration into the labour market. The Refugee Women Academy is an initiative of Piraeus Bank, in close collaboration with UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, in Greece.
Re-SAIL
Αn innovative action that trains and raises awareness of children and young people about the environment and the blue economy, focusing on sailing, recycling, and the empowerment of vulnerable social groups.
The project has three main pillars, Technical and entrepreneurship training, Employability services and Innovative environmental actions for children.
Empowering vulnerable youth in Greece to enter the world of work
A program to support young vulnerable people in the best way possible by implementing a holistic approach to assist equally both unemployed Greeks and guest communities integrate into society. The model is built upon 3 equally important main services, often consecutive and complementary to each other, Orientation, Vocational training and Employability services.
Caring for the Caregiver
An innovative vocational training programme for older people’s support occupations. Odyssey proposes a holistic action that will alleviate and serve these vulnerable groups. Within the framework of the action we will design two fast-track vocational training programmes, entitled “Care Worker for the Elderly” and “Health Service Advisor”. These programmes aim to provide elderly members of society and their relatives with the necessary support for their daily needs and at the same time train vulnerable people to secure a job by staffing a field that suffers from a lack of qualified personnel.
You Have a Second Chance
Odyssea in cooperation with KETHEA EN DRASI implements an unprecedented in the Greek context, holistic approach for the social reintegration of imprisoned and released former users of psychoactive substances. The project includes therapeutic treatment, vocational training, professional orientation, and post-therapeutic support for smooth reintegration.
Diversity & Inclusion: Odyssea’s paradigm towards integration and equality
The programme supports young vulnerable people by applying a holistic approach to help equally unemployed young Greeks and host communities to integrate into society. Our experience in workforce development integration programmes for vulnerable groups demonstrates that non-discrimination between vulnerable host and guest communities accelerates the integration of refugees and migrants into the workplace.
Empowerment and vocational training for youth neither in employment nor in education or training
The aim of the project is the vocational training of young people who do not participate in education or employment processes (NEETs) and their promotion to employment. To achieve the objective, the following actions will be implemented:
- Beneficiary assessment
- Introductory hands-on workshops in selected professional disciplines
- Vocational training in various disciplines
- Creation/development of a professional profile
- Introduction of graduates to the labour market
NADINE
(HORIZON EUROPE)
NADINE project’s aim is to develop a novel way of integrating migrants and refugees through ICT-enabled solutions that will automatically adapt to the specificities of each person. NADINE creates an adaptable platform able to: 1) provide functionalities for skill assessment, 2) dynamically create tailored suited training programs to adapt existing skills into host societies needed skills, 3) provide a digital companion that will suggest and assist the end-users through administrative tasks and 4) create a data lake available to public administration bodies for better organization of migration flows.
SENSE.STEAM
(HORIZON EUROPE)
The project aims to feed the talent pipeline, enable and promote vivid brain circulation and fresh innovation power to prepare the EU at large to solve todays and societal challenges; to demonstrate added value of STEAM for science education and how it stimulates uptake of science careers; to equip students, education providers, businesses with knowledge, practices and tools to develop STEAM based curricula and learning approaches.
JOINCLUSION
(ERASMUS+)
The project has the ambition to achieve a new milestone towards the provision of innovative game-based pedagogy and assessment methods boosting emotional intelligence, empathy in particular, as a key pillar of pro-social skills fostering diversity and inclusion. The project combines interactive multimedia design with the most effective principles of technologically-mediated learning to develop a game-based educational tool applying psychological modelling of scenarios, to engage the learner emotionally and collaboratively, supporting cognitive engagement, affective engagement, behavioural engagement and socio-cultural engagement.
INTERCRAFT
(ERASMUS+)
The project INTERCULTURAL CRAFT: a bridge between traditional knowledge and different cultures (INTERCRAFT) aims to promote new forms of
social innovation and intercultural dialogue, creating and supporting learning and training paths that can recognize and enhance the craft skills and competences of migrants, asylum seekers, refugees, and relate their skills to the traditional local artisan knowledge of the host European territories. Main objectives:
• enhance the traditional knowledge and skills of migrant people;
• contrast the dispersion of local traditional artisan knowledge and techniques.
E-MEDIC
(ERASMUS+)
The E-MEDIC project proposal aims to deliver practical strategies and learning modules for the academic staff (professors, lecturers, researchers) in health sector.
The main idea of the project is to provide methods and solutions adapted to the specific needs of the medical educators. In particular, the learning platform will be designed to be very ease-of-use, with targeted contents, giving the possibility to the medical educators to learn also when they have little slots of time. The learning environment will be designed (and co-designed with them) starting from the paradigms of the ubiquitous and mobile learning.
VOICES OF MIGRANT WOMEN
(ERASMUS+)
The VIW project is funded by the European Commission through the Spanish National Agency for the Erasmus+ Programme, with the aim of making HEIs more inclusive by promoting a holistic comprehension of the gender issues in migration flows. Odyssea is participating as Associate partner.
ECO JOBS
(ERASMUS+)
The overall objective of the project is to introduce students from VET schools to the possibilities offered by green jobs, through the development of a digital game, through which students will simulate the creation and management of a sustainable enterprise, working in international teams and learning by playing the most important competences required to succeed in these new careers.
ON MY FEET
(ERASMUS+)
The project aims to support young people in the transition period of their life, when they are figuring out how to take care of themselves and what to do in their life. We are specifically interested in offering a helping hand to those young people, who so far might not have been as fortunate as others in the early stage of their life, such as orphans, youths from single parent family, youths in foster care, migrant minors, youths from rural areas, remote areas disadvantaged regions, youths at risk of social exclusion, NEETs etc.
THINK TWICE
(ERASMUS+)
In order to support the formal education system that is still limping behind the rapid changes in the way we learn and communicate with each other, the Think Twice project creates opportunities for competence development of learners and educators, capacity building of education providers, and proposals for policymakers making decisions on curricula content, initial and CPD education of teachers in the area of media and digital literacy.
ALL IN EDUCATION
(ERASMUS+)
Lasting thirty-two months, ending December 31st, 2024, the project involves schools from three countries (Italy, Greece, and the Netherlands), academies, and no-profit partners. JOINclusion applies cooperative learning and game-based learning to empathy and inclusion in the school context. The goal of the JOINclusion project, “Joint problem-solving strategy towards social inclusion of children with a migrant background”, funded under the Erasmus+ programme is to promote the inclusion of primary and secondary school students (7-12 years old) through training in empathy thanks to the use of a collaborative mobile application.
FYLL
(ERASMUS+)
The FYLL project (Fair Youth Labor Label) is an Erasmus+ KA210-YOU Small-Scale Partnership initiative aimed at strengthening youth employability and promoting fair and responsible labor practices. The project responds to high levels of undeclared, precarious, and low-paid work among young people in Cellole (Italy), Aegina (Greece), and Sofia (Bulgaria). Through a series of workshops, awareness campaigns, and policy recommendations, FYLL seeks to empower young workers with knowledge about labor rights while engaging entrepreneurs in ethical employment practices. A key outcome of the project is the creation of the Fair Youth Labor Label, a certification recognizing businesses committed to fair and sustainable labor.
NEBVET LABEL
(ERASMUS+)
The New European Bauhaus Label for VET (NEB VET Label) aims to integrate the values and principles of the New European Bauhaus (NEB) into vocational education and training (VET). The project focuses on fostering sustainable, inclusive, and aesthetically inspiring learning environments in VET centres across Europe. It seeks to establish a structured accreditation process—the NEB VET Label—allowing VET providers to assess their alignment with NEB principles, improve quality assurance, and promote internationalization.
EQUAL AND ACCESSIBLE CAREER PATHS
(ERASMUS+)
The Equal and Accessible Career Paths project, an Erasmus+ European cooperation initiative, focuses on fostering equality, diversity, and inclusion in the workplace by creating accessible career opportunities for individuals with the right skills. The project aims to enhance the capacity of companies to hire individuals with diverse abilities while promoting an inclusive work environment across Europe. By developing accessible training materials, the project seeks to improve the skills of learners, trainers, and employers, ensuring they are equipped to support a diverse and inclusive workforce. Ultimately, this commitment to accessibility and equality will contribute to a positive workplace culture and the overall success of organizations.
TAITALE
(ERASMUS+)
The TAITALE project (Training Activities for In-service and Pre-service Teachers for Empowering Learning with Educational Escape Rooms) is an Erasmus+ KA220-HED initiative focused on enhancing digital and creative teaching practices in higher education. The project aims to equip in-service and pre-service teachers with innovative Augmented Reality (AR) and Tangible User Interfaces (TUI) to create Educational Escape Rooms (EERs). These interactive learning environments promote experiential learning, problem-solving skills, and interdisciplinary teaching. Through the development of miniMOOCs, digital authoring tools, and best practice guidelines, TAITALE seeks to foster digital creativity and pedagogical innovation across Europe.
HERS
(ERASMUS+)
The HERS project (Inclusive Approaches to Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage) is a Creative Europe Cooperation Project (CREA-CULT-2024-COOP-1) aimed at empowering migrant women by preserving and celebrating their intangible cultural heritage (ICH). Through skills development, intercultural exchange, and digital storytelling, HERS fosters social inclusion, gender equality, and cultural diversity. The project enables migrant women to co-create, document, and showcase their traditions in collaboration with local artists and cultural institutions. It also establishes a digital community archive to preserve these cultural expressions for future generations.
RESIZE
(ERASMUS+)
The RESIZE project (Reshaping Correctional Competencies through RESCALED Innovation) is an Erasmus+ Alliances for Innovation (ERASMUS-EDU-2024-PI-ALL-INNO) initiative aimed at modernizing correctional education and workforce development. The project focuses on training correctional staff and professionals in alignment with the RESCALED initiative, which advocates for community-integrated detention models. By developing standardized curricula, micro-credentialing frameworks, and lifelong learning pathways, RESIZE seeks to improve correctional staff competencies, promote rehabilitation-focused practices, and enhance workforce adaptability in correctional institutions across Europe.
PULSE
(ERASMUS+)
The PULSE project aims to strengthen the capacity of vocational education and training (VET) centers in Tunisia, Morocco, and Libya to foster entrepreneurial spirit among both educators and learners. It seeks to enhance employability and entrepreneurial skills through innovative pedagogical methods, digital resources, and SmartLabs. The project will integrate work-based learning, entrepreneurship, and digital transformation into VET curricula to address skills gaps, youth unemployment, and informal employment challenges in the region.
JUSTSAFE
(ERASMUS+)
JUSTSAFE project aims to design and implement just and inclusive strategies for enhancing climate resilience and digital transitions, prioritizing the most vulnerable and marginalized social groups such as the elderly, children, women and girls in all their diversity and individuals with disabilities who disproportionately suffer from climate change impacts. The project underscores the necessity of local authorities making direct investments that impact vulnerable communities significantly.
STORIES OF STRENGTH
(ERASMUS+)
The “Stories of Strength” project is an Erasmus+ KA210-ADU initiative focused on empowering migrant women through creative and autobiographical writing.
The project aims to enhance self-expression, self-esteem, and social integration by providing migrant women with structured creative writing training. This initiative will also develop innovative learning resources, train adult educators, and establish Creative Hubs where participants can share their personal stories. A final “Stories of Strength Festival” will showcase their work, fostering cultural awareness, inclusion, and intercultural dialogue. The project aligns with EU priorities on gender equality, social cohesion, and lifelong learning, contributing to a more inclusive and diverse society.
MEDNET4YOUTH
(ERASMUS+)
The MedNet4YA project (Mediterranean Network for the Support of Youth Drug Addictions and Social Reintegration) is an Erasmus+ KA210-YOU initiative focused on strengthening cooperation among Mediterranean countries to combat youth drug addiction and improve social reintegration services. The project develops innovative strategies for addiction prevention, treatment, and harm reduction, while also promoting education and employment opportunities for young people recovering from substance use disorders. Through transnational exchanges, training, and awareness campaigns, MedNet4YA aims to enhance the capacity of youth workers, educators, and social workers in tackling addiction issues, particularly in migratory contexts. A key outcome of the project is the creation of a Mediterranean manual on youth addiction treatment and social reintegration, offering policy recommendations and best practices for European-wide implementation.
