{"id":9073,"date":"2019-02-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-26T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/desmos.digitalnest.gr\/?p=9073"},"modified":"2026-07-14T13:58:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T10:58:23","slug":"eea-grants-i-care-and-act-selected-as-best-practice-training-program-for-volunteerism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desmos.digitalnest.gr\/en\/news\/eea-grants-i-care-and-act-selected-as-best-practice-training-program-for-volunteerism\/","title":{"rendered":"EEA Grants: \u201cI Care and Act\u201d selected as Best Practice training program for Volunteerism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"gb-element-12fb0d01\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1392\" data-media-id=\"11475\" class=\"gb-media-daf16709\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/desmos.digitalnest.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/eea-grants-banner.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/desmos.digitalnest.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/eea-grants-banner.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/desmos.digitalnest.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/eea-grants-banner-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/desmos.digitalnest.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/eea-grants-banner-1024x713.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/desmos.digitalnest.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/eea-grants-banner-768x535.jpg 768w, https:\/\/desmos.digitalnest.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/eea-grants-banner-1536x1069.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" \/>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"gb-element-6faa15bd\">\n<h1 class=\"gb-text gb-text-70ea53c3\">EEA Grants: \u201cI Care and Act\u201d selected as Best Practice training program for Volunteerism<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"gb-element-67501cec\">\n<div class=\"gb-element-e478d17e\"><div style=\"color:#e76d6c\" class=\"has-link-color wp-elements-1 wp-block-post-date has-text-color\"><time datetime=\"2019-02-27T00:00:00+02:00\">27\/2\/2019<\/time><\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"gb-text gb-text-11f7586c dn-diamond-item-alt\"><a href=\"https:\/\/desmos.digitalnest.gr\/en\/news\/category\/building-a-better-future\/\" rel=\"tag\">Building a Better Future<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/desmos.digitalnest.gr\/en\/news\/category\/uncategorized\/\" rel=\"tag\">Uncategorized<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"gb-element-b1f1f2a2\">\n<div class=\"gb-element-1be72f1d\">\n<p class=\"gb-text gb-text-76af1c55\">Volunteering and social giving culture in Greece are on the rise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"gb-text gb-text-95da5108\">\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.desmos.org\/project\/i-care-act\/\">I Care and Act<\/a>\u201d was selected and presented as best practice training program under &nbsp;the &#8220;We Are All Citizens&#8221;<a href=\"https:\/\/eeagrants.org\/\">EEA Grants program<\/a>, for the period 2009-2014. The presentation, made at the opening ceremony of the Active Citizens Fund, was held at Serafio on 21\/2, and supported by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bodossaki.gr\/en\/\">Bodossaki Foundation<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"gb-text gb-text-fbc48851\">Mrs. Lena Papalexopoulou, Vice-President of Desmos\u2019 Board of Directors, mentioned the lack of a culture of volunteerism, solidarity and social giving in our country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"gb-text gb-text-508d696d\">Below you find the full presentation:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"gb-text gb-text-fe628cde\">In her speech she presented research findings of studies conducted from 2008 to 2014 in EU countries and the OECD, according to which Greece ranks last, with very low scores among all relative indices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"gb-text gb-text-51e69e8d\">From 2014 onwards, although greece still displays limited results in the field, its ranking in the Global Indices of Giving improved significantly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"gb-text gb-text-642684c8\">Given the absence of a culture of giving to society, Desmos developed \u201cI Care and Act\u201d in collaboration with the Lambraki Foundation. The program\u2019s goal is to promote giving as an everyday activity among the yonger generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"gb-text gb-text-6b0a9022\">Since its inception in 2015, the program involved 500 schools from 13 peripheries, 48.000 schoolchildren, 3.400 teachers and fostered the cooperation with 1.700 social partners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"gb-text gb-text-1018179f\">The qualitative findings of the program \u201cI Care and Act\u201d documented in a research conducted by the University of the Peloponnese, showed that schoolchildren who attended the program acquired a much better understanding of the concept of social giving than those who hadn\u2019t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"gb-text gb-text-d59cda1d\">Statistical studies reveal significant changes in the cognitive, emotional and behavioral level after the participation in \u201cI Care and Act\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"gb-text gb-text-aa75dbdf\">Overall, the program has brought significant change in everyday life choices related to volunteerism and active citizenship among children and teenagers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EEA Grants: \u201cI Care and Act\u201d selected as Best Practice training program for Volunteerism Building a Better Future, Uncategorized Volunteering and social giving culture in Greece are on the rise. \u201cI Care and Act\u201d was selected and presented as best practice training program under &nbsp;the &#8220;We Are All Citizens&#8221;EEA Grants program, for the period 2009-2014. &#8230; <a title=\"EEA Grants: \u201cI Care and Act\u201d selected as Best Practice training program for Volunteerism\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/desmos.digitalnest.gr\/en\/news\/eea-grants-i-care-and-act-selected-as-best-practice-training-program-for-volunteerism\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about EEA Grants: \u201cI Care and Act\u201d selected as Best Practice training program for Volunteerism\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11475,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[163,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-building-a-better-future","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desmos.digitalnest.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/desmos.digitalnest.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/desmos.digitalnest.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desmos.digitalnest.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desmos.digitalnest.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9073"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/desmos.digitalnest.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12494,"href":"https:\/\/desmos.digitalnest.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9073\/revisions\/12494"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desmos.digitalnest.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desmos.digitalnest.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desmos.digitalnest.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desmos.digitalnest.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}