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Care4Carers – A carer’s testimonial

    A slightly different perspective: There is no exact figure for how many young carers there are in Europe. However, according to some available statistics, 7-8% of all European children and teenagers are young carers.  Despite the relevance of…

Storytelling course now online

As part of the Storyliving project, the course on the use of storytelling for those working with young people with mental health disorders was piloted with 119 Greek, Italian, German, Spanish and Macedonian psychologists, personal assistants, carers, teachers, therapists, special…

DigiArts Newsletter 3

We are pleased to release the third newsletter in the project. In particular, it presents the manual on restorative justice for youth workers and gives impressions of the training week in Sofia. You can download the newsletter here. Find more…

Businesses in the circular economy

In the first phase of the project, the partners explored how European entrepreneurs have integrated the circular economy into their businesses and collected examples from the partner countries. Watch our conversation with 12 entrepreneurs from 5 European countries to learn…

Training event in Sofia

From 28-30 November we had our very interactive training week in Sofia, Bulgaria around the DigiArts method and approach with two representatives from each partner organisation. The training was hosted by our Bulgarian partner, Happiness Academy, who facilitated the programme…

Kick-off in Athens

After a six-month “digital” phase, we finally met face to face with our SynC project partners in Athens and officially launched the project. The SYnC project aims to develop a non-formal education framework with a twofold objective: to develop behaviours…

Impact of the pandemic on mental health

COVID has had a strong impact on our mental health, but it has been particularly hard on young people with mental illness and/or autism spectrum disorders, in many cases increasing their levels of stress, anxiety and depression. With Storyliving we…

Start of new project on circular economy

We are pleased to announce the launch of our new youth project on the circular economy, which we will be running over the next 2 years with partners from Belgium, Greece, Portugal and Romania. We will develop different tools and…

TPM in Athens

Finally, our Storyliving team met in person in Athens to discuss the next steps of the project! We hadn’t been able to meet earlier in the project due to the restrictions caused by the pandemic. On the 5th and 6th…