The Day of Pan-European Awareness and Information Action on the major issue of the refugee / immigration crisis was successfully completed on Thursday, October 3, 2019 as part of the Snapshots From The Borders project in the “Old Bakeries” hall of the Technopolis of the Municipality of Athens. ELORIS and the MSc World Health – Disaster Medicine, of the Medical School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

The event opened with the screening of the film “Winter in Lampedusa” directed by JaKob Grossmann, which dealt with the difficult situation of the inhabitants of the island of Lampedusa in Italy during the winter of 2016 when the inhabitants were left without the ship provided the island with the necessary supplies and enabled them to sell their fish in Sicily while, at the same time, they had to deal with the large influx of refugees who ended up on the island in their attempt to reach Europe.

There were conducted 2 workshops which were successful and had great participation

1. “Creative recycling workshop:” With a bottle of water, I give wings to the dream !! ” “ where the participants had the opportunity, experientially, to be introduced to the concepts of creative recycling and circular economy, to express themselves creatively and to come in contact in the way in which the artistic installation “The Birds of Freedom” was created. The workshop was coordinated by the artist Fereniki Tsabarli.
2. “Share your idea for innovative social actions – act differently” in which participants, based on their experience, they designed services and suggested solutions for managing aspects of the refugee issue. The workshop was coordinated by the MPS “Global Health – Disaster Medicine”, Medical School, EKPA in collaboration with design4future.

The event ended with two open discussions with the public

1. “Share responsibility: How local communities are responding to the migration crisis.”
2. “The role of international organizations in the migration crisis.”

where a number of state representatives, academics and civil society organizations took part in order to assess the involvement of local government and local communities in the management of immigration so far.

The speakers present were

– Terzidis Agis, Pediatrician, Assistant Associate, Medical School, EKPA, former Vice President of EODY

– Koursoumbas Dimitrios, Deputy Regional Head of Immigration Crisis of the North Aegean

– Vassilis Moraitis, Representative of the Municipality of Rhodes

– Tzimis Efstratios, Deputy Mayor of Technical Service and Construction

– Vati Diana Aphrodite, President of the Legal Entity for Sports, Culture and Tourism

– Christidi Elena Olga, Responsible Psychologist of the Hellenic Program for Investigation and Certification of Victims of Torture (NGO “METADRASI”)

– Prof. Pikoulis Emmanouil, Professor of Surgery, Director of the 3rd University Clinic, Medical School, EKPA, PGN ATTIKON

– Patestos Dimitris, Cardiologist, Medical Coordinator of Doctors of the World Greece in Moria

– Apostolopoulou Katerina, SynAthina Project and Curing The Limbo, Municipality of Athens

The moderator of the discussions was Agis Terzidis, Pediatrician, Assistant Associate, Medical School, EKPA and former Vice President of EODY.

Event Curator & Communication Manager

Ralou Tatari

raloutatari@gmail.com

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About the project

It is a three-year cooperation project funded by the European Union (under the EuropeAid Dear action) with the participation of thirty five (35) partners, from 14 European countries.

Specifically, 17 local authorities and 14 civil society organizations participate in this project. Snapshots From The Borders aims to improve the critical understanding of European, national and local decision-makers and the general public about the global interdependencies that determine migratory flows to European borders, in order to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.

In particular, the project aims to create a new trans-European network of cities directly addressing migration flows across the EU border, as a means of promoting more effective cohesion policies at all levels (European, national and local).

An electronic resolution has been created as part of the project to declare October 3, European Day of Remembrance.

Partners in Greece are:

• North Aegean Region
• Research, Education, Cyanotomy and Development Company of the North Aegean Region “ELORIS SA”
• Municipality of Rhodes
• Postgraduate Program “Global Health – Disaster Medicine” of the Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (EKPA)

More information about the project

http://www.snapshotsfromtheborders.eu/

Followed the presentation of Mr. Nikolaos Kamtsis, president of Centre of Higher Education in Theatre Studies, who talked introductory about the Creative Learning Method (C.LEAR) and its implementation in the SEDIN project. Mr Kamtsis succeeded Mrs Nicole Hermann, representative of Watermark Montessori International Institute, who, in turn, presented a brief introduction to the Montessori Method and its application in the project.

In the second part of the conference, we welcomed the external evaluator of the project, Mr. Colin Isham, who presented in brief the evaluation of the implementation of the two learning methods of Maria Montessori and of Creative Learning (C.LEAR), which the SEDIN project used. Subsequently, a cycle of presentations followed on the subject of the SEDIN’s project’s implementation in schools, which were made from the other project’s partners representatives (Universitat di Girona, Cooperazione Internationale Sud Sud, Center for Creative Training Association and Karsiyaka District National Education Directorate).

The conclusion of the conference marked the Award Ceremony of the Training Titles to the teachers, who were trained on the two methods during the project’s training seminars that were realised in Mytilene and Kalloni during the spring of 2019.