From December 4th to December 5th the VAI Closing Conference will take place at Piraeus Medical Association.
Our greek partnes prepared a great program: Check it out!
Wednesday 4 December 2019
09:00 – 09:30 Registration & Welcome
09:30 – 10:00 Introduction to the project | Panos Hatziprokopiou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
10:00 – 10:30 Report on Pilot Actions 1: Implementing the VAI Action Plan in Piraeus | Spyros Kasidiaris, Municipality of Piraeus
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:00 Report on Pilot Actions 2: Training volunteers & volunteer trainers | Magda Xanthopoulou, Four Elements
Omer Duzgun, Verein Multikulturell
12:00 – 13:00 Keynote I: Re-conceptualizing civil society in contemporary Greece | Alexandros Afouxenidis, National Centre for Social research
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch break
14:00 – 15:00 | Report on Pilot Actions 3: Involving migrant volunteers | Olga Antoniou, Hellenic Red Cross
Laura Panella, Cidis Onlus
15:00 – 15:30 Intervention: Volunteering among refugees
15:30 – 16:00 Report on Pilot Actions 4: Radio show | Carolin Vonbank, Charlotte Trippolt, FREIRAD
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee break
16:30 – 18:00 Other AMIF projects in Greece | LION, George Koulierakis, University of West Attica, ArtsTogether, Nikolaos Tzifakis, University of the Peloponnese, WEMIN, Eleni Georgakakou, Hellenic Open University, MIVA, Spyros Kasidiaris, Municipality of Piraeus
18:00 – 19:00 Book launch. Idomeni: Waiting for Home | Alkisti Alevropoulou-Malli & Nina Walch
Thursday 5 December 2019
09:30 – 10:00 Registration & Welcome
10:00 – 11:30 Report on Pilot Actions 5: Roundtables & workshops on migrants & volunteering | Alessandra Corrado, University of Calabria, Xenia Kellner, Leibniz University of Hannover, Dimitris Kourkouridis, Yannis Frangopoulos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
11:30 – 12:00 Coffee break
12:00 – 13:00 Keynote II: Asylum seekers’ agency and civil society: ethnographic insights from the port of Piraeus | Giorgos Mavrommatis, Harokopio University
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch break
14:00 – 16:00 Local experiences of volunteering for/with/by migrants | Confirmed Speakers include: Volunteers at the Red Cross Athens Multifunctional Centre, Nicolas Perrenoud; One Happy Family, Rachel LeClear, Better Days; Jean-Didier Totow, Greek Forum of Refugees
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee break
16:30 – 17:30 RoundTable: from volunteering to labour market integration
17:30 – 18:00 Report on Pilot Actions 6: Film project | Alena Klinger and Michael Haupt, Initiative Minderheiten Tirol