European Programmes

  • EXPLORE - 1999
    Exploration and application of tele-education in businesses
  • EURO-TRAIN - 1999
    Preparation of banks and media for the introduction and application of Euro
  • SURVIVE - 1998
    Survival of the media on the basis of competition
  • PROS-PRO - 1998
    Complete intervention in clothing subcontracting aiming at improving sector competitiveness.
  • CLOTHILD PROS PRO II - 1998
    Facilitation of media in the clothing sector for the development of entrepreneurship, introduction of technological innovations and business collaborations by means of creating a permanent supporting structure.
  • DITRIS - 1996
    Self-education for teleworkers in the media
  • ROOTS AND ROUTES - 2005
    The project “Roots & Routes” wants to empower urban youngsters by helping and coaching them to use their song, dance and media skills as an economic weapon and a weapon for social integration and citizenship
  • MUVI-Developing strategies to work with men who use violence in intimate relationships’ -  N/A 
    The ‘MUVI-Developing strategies to work with men who use violence in intimate relationships’ project, approved and funded by the European Commission’s Daphne 2006 Programme, was presented by Bologna Municipality together with the Shelter for Women against Violence (Casa delle donne per non subire violenza). The project partners are the Alternative to Violence Centre, ATV (Oslo), Innovation, Transfer and Development, ITD (Barcelona), the Greek training centre DIMITRA and AEDA, Athens municipality’s Development Agency.The MUVI project aims to raise awareness among the public and among those who work in the social field on the problem of men’s violent behaviour against women in intimate relationships.
  • LEXOP: Lex-Operators. All together for women victims of intimate partner violence -  N/A 
    The overall goal of this 2 year Daphne project is to create a multidisciplinary network of operators involved, at different levels, in fighting the intimate partner violence, in order to provide a coordinated answer and in which the institutions can fight the intimate relationship violence, protect the victims and persecute the offenders. The main objective of this project is twofold: Firstly, a high-level strategizing cross-training addressed to law enforcement, police operators, prosecutors, judicial operators, forensic professionals and lawyers. The final vademecum, as a result of the training sessions, will be the effective tool, designed specifically for target groups. Secondly, to compare the networks models already existing and take advantage from them to implement a new and shared protocol. The indirect beneficiaries are both the whole judicial system and all the real or potential victims.
    This Daphne project is coordinated by the University of Bologna and participate partners from Italy, Spain, Germany and Greece. DIMITRA ITD participates as partner.
  • Best Practice Across the Three Sectors -  N/A 
    It is a European funded research project to develop Best Practice across the 3 sectors: Private, Public and Co-operative, in Business Planning, Marketing, Recruitment and Finance.
  • TEISA -  N/A 
    This project promotes transnational scope cooperation for the adaptation, translation and transference of a tool for pedagogical updating, developed in Spain and with a contrasted practical applicability, for training professionals of local socio-economic promotion in Greece. The goal is to include it in a territory such as the Larissa region, which is currently developing a process in terms of economic promotion and employment creation, based on Territorial Compromising and creation of networks.
  • COAST -  N/A 
    Training for the improvement of fishing techniques and the management of fishing stocks of the sea of Thrace and on the islands of Lesvos and Chios
  • EYGE NET -  N/A 
    Programme for the support of small and medium businesses – women and new entrepreneurs
  • LOG IN THE MEDIA -  N/A 
    LOG THE MEDIA is a European project aimed at fostering the active involvement of ethnic minority groups in activities that confront the reflection of racism, xenophobia and other forms of intolerance in the media.
  • DISNET STEP BY STEP -  N/A 
    Creation of permanent self-employment and teleworking structures for physically and sensory disabled people.
  • ON AIR -  N/A 
    Training on electronic editions (language training - entrepreneurship-
  • ON AIR -  N/A 
    Training on radio-broadcasting
  • DISNET STEP -  N/A 
    Creation of permanent teleworking and tele-education structures for physically and sensory disabled people.
  • ENSEBLE -  N/A 
    Education of returnees from Pontos on the restoration of buildings (language training & entrepreneurship)
  • ENSEBLE -  N/A 
    Education to returnees from Pontos on the exploitation of natural resources
  • DARING -  N/A 
    Disabled people working in new Internet jobs
  • ON LINE - More Color in the Media -  N/A 
    The programme addresses unemployed journalists, returnees from the former Soviet Union, Europe, Australia, Africa, etc., mainly in relation to the creation of appropriate training and promoting conditions in the media
  • EUROVERDE - 1999
    Promotion of rural tourism products and services of women entrepreneurs through the INTERNET
  • REMOTE - 1997
    Research and employment teleworking opportunities in Europe
  • VIOLETA - 1997
    Development of women’s rural tourism businesses
  • RESTORE -  N/A 
    Activities for the training and assisted employment of young people in traditional technical professions for the maintenance of cultural heritage
  • TEAMING UP -  N/A 
    Complete intervention in the employment of young people in remote areas of the province of Sintiki, prefecture of Serres
  • HUMAN RESOURCES - EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES - 2005
    The main objective of the project is to facilitate the integration of equal opportunities into the business environment. The project aims at reducing occupational segregation and helping companies to create better workplace environments
  • POST-OLYMPIC BUSINESS - PROMOTION OF ENTREPRENEURIAL ACTIVITY OF TARGET GROUP WITH THE EXPLOITATION OF THE ATHLETIC AND OLYMPIC INFRASTRUCTURE - 2005
    The main problem that will be faced concerns the discriminations that suffer the sensitive social groups in the process of creation of new enterprise, through the exploitation of important number of Olympic and other athletic infrastructure
  • DREAM - Discrimination, Racism, Equality And Media - 2003
    The project "DREAM-Fighting against racism and xenophobia in the media", is a common initiative of 17 organizations, from all over Greece, aims in promoting diversity within the media, both in terms of broadcasts and as a labour market.
  • EMPLOYMENT PATH - 2003
    The project implementations deals with consultancy of young unemployed, especially those comming from minority or social disadvantaged groups.
  • ANDROMEDA - GENDER DISCRIMINATION IN THE LABOR MARKET - 2003
    The project attempts, through well-designed and complementary actions, to intervene to all levels of horizontal and vertical segregation and to further create the appropriate conditions for the adoption of necessary mechanisms and tools that will strength
  • EQUALITY ON BROADCASTING -  N/A 
    Equality on Broadcasting
  • OPUS - 1998
    Opening Up Information Society to Women
  • CQAF-ONLINE: COMMON QUALITY ASSURANCE FRAMEWORK-VET, A PROVIDER ONLINE MODEL - 2011

    “CQAF-online: Common Quality Assurance Framework-VET, a provider online model” project develops an operational model of a common European tools and documents for Quality Assurance (QA) for Vocational Education & Training (VET). The aim of CQAF is to help Member States and participating countries to develop, improve, monitor and evaluate their own VET systems and practices, based on common principles, criteria and tools.


    The project is a continuation of the action that was completed in October 2011, through which developed the basic structure and the content of the model. At this stage there will be the necessary corrections through an application process – test of the model to training providers, in order to be applicable for different VET providers in different EU countries. Finally, it will be developed, a user friendly online version of the model.


    The program is co funded by the European Union with the participation of organizations from Greece, Sweden, Spain, Netherlands, and Cyprus.
  • METHODOLOGICAL TOOLBOX FOR DEVELOPMENT OF NEW SKILL FOR FUTURE JOBS - 2010

    JS Toolbox is a two years programme that aims to develop a set of methodological tools in order to match the offer of vocational training, with the future needs for skills, in local and regional level. The Tool-box will be elaborated according to the following:


    ·         Future regional labor market demands per occupational sector/ and its effect on demand per occupational skill profiles


    ·         Labor market supply per type of education according to skill profiles


    ·         Inclusion of the result of the regional forecast for future skill/jobs needs into a set of skill profiles which can be used for development of new VET training programs for future jobs in the regions.


    “DIMITRA” Institute participates on this project as well as organizations from Sweden, Spain, Poland, Netherlands and Cyprus.

  • EQLEARN-LEARNING FOR EQUALITY AND EMPOWERMENT-LEARNING FOR ALL - 2010
    The main aim of this project is to develop skills & competences in order to ease the access of the disadvantaged groups to the labour market. EQLEARN is based on one of the deliverables of the project Channels of Access (COA). The objective of EQLEARN is to use the results of the COA project & develop a TOTAL SOLUTION for the development of competences of disadvantaged groups so that they can integrate into the society & labour market.
  • CONSCIOUS SENIOR e-CITIZEN - 2009
    The main objective of the project is making life of older people in modern world easier and more comfortable with new technologies. This project will also help in building a bridge between generations and will counteract distribution of digital society.
  • DIGEM - DIGITAL EMPOWERMENT - 2009
    Digital Empowerment - DigEm is an innovative digital empowering project that uses a creative approach to teaching basic ICT skills and provides an effective entry route for learners who are disengaged with the learning process, or who are unconfident with new technologies.  DgEm develops literacy and communication skills by using creative tools, media techniques and tools, by the creation of story ideas, focused on people's own lives, through story-telling circles, drama, photography, music, video clips and narrative. The main objectives of the project is to introduce alternative methods for the teaching of ICT skills for groups that have been excluded or reluctant to join the digital society. The project is being coordinated by DIMITRA ITD with the participation of partner organization from eight  (8) European Countries; England, Spain, Poland, Lithuania, Czech Republic, Cyprus and Greece.  The training approach will be complemented by the development of an e-content platform in order to facilitate the trainees (both trainers and end-users).
  • STEP: Supporting Talent to Employment Programme 2008-2010 - 2008
    STEP (Supporting Talent to Employment Programme) is concerned with European organisations that utilise informal and nonformal learning, delivered through artistic and cultural expression, to provide vocational support to disadvantaged and disaffected young people. This field uses music, dance, drama, visual arts, media production and design in non-formal/informal learning environments in order to create new learning, employment and career.
  • SERVICE - 1998
    Supllying Small and Medium Sized Enterprises with Relevant Vocational Indices Customer Service
  • ARTS WEB - 1998
    Innovative programme designed to train mentors in Arts and to effectively guide people who wish a career in arts.
  • ETAE - 1998
    European Trainers Against Exclusion
  • SESAM - 1995
    Development of strategic data in relation to total quality management systems in the field of ongoing professional training for women
  • FAIRGROUD -  N/A 
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  • OPEN UP THE WORLD OF TECHNOLOGY -  N/A 
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  • INNOVATION AGENT -  N/A 
    To define a new professional profile named “Innovation Agent”, to make technological audits in the SME’s, with the aim of contributing to the implementation of innovation in their organizational system and adaptation of New Technologies.
  • ENTERPRISING COMPETENCES - EU” (ECEU) -  N/A 
    Aiming to promote the acknowledgement and standardization of the entrepreneurship as a competence with a high professional value at European level, directly related to non formal and informal learning, particularly relevant in the case of women
  • Gender mind – opener / GRUNDTVIG -  N/A 
    Ιn the framework of GRUNDTVIG program, DIMITRA in collaboration with Spanish, Italian and Polish associations, specialised on issues of gender and education, participates in the project `Gender - Mind Opener'. The main project’s aim is raising gender awareness among all the persons involved in the process of education of children such as parents, grand-parents, educators etc, that will result in breaking gender stereotypes and will enable equal opportunities policies implementation.
    Through partners’ meetings and study visits including staff and learners exchange, information on opportunities referring to gender perspective in
    children education will be exchanged and it can be worked out new projects initiatives
  • EOF - EUROPEAN OUTPLACEMENT FRAMEWORK -  N/A 

    Vocational Support for People with Difficulty on Employment Access.
    The main objective of this project is to create the European Outplacement Guide – EOG, which contains the concept of outplacement including its definitions, methodologies and tools. In addition to this EOG some specific training modules will be elaborated, which enhances the outplacement tutors/mentors in their future tasks and roles. “DIMITRA” Institute participates on this project as well as organizations from Austria, Slovenia, Slovakia, Poland and Portugall. 

  • SPORTS INSTRUCTORS -  N/A 
    The project aims at improving the theoretical and practical education of the stakeholders involved in vocational education by an exchange of practices carried out in the countries of the participating institutions. The participants will familiarize themselves with the national qualification framework of the countries involved to determine the professional standards of the sports instructors they have in common, the schooling and certification procedure, as well as the technical vocabulary sports instructors should possess. The project is organized in five stages, comprising six topics that will be approached throughout the two years; the participants will share information through the partner website, and they will put it into practice in workshops, debates and visits in sports centres that will be organized during the project meetings. At the end of the project, the partner institutions will issue a brochure and a CD containing models of good practice in the development of the professional skills of the sports instructors, in accordance with the EQF.
  • MIGRANTS IN THE MEDIA -  N/A 
    “Migrants in the Media” project aims to improve the interaction between third-country nationals (immigrants) and Member State citizens by promoting intercultural competences with programming - and journalistic staff of national Public Service Broadcasters (PSB) and media skills with immigrant organisations. The outcomes of the project will help on the long term to improve PSB as a platform for intercultural dialogue and to act as a binding factor between all citizens of the multicultural society, helping to create an atmosphere of mutual understanding and intercultural communication. Immigrant organisations will establish themselves as mediators between the immigrant communities and the media organisations by offering the media better access to immigrant communities, to provide better skilled immigrant spokes persons and information on the opinions and developments inside the immigrant communities.
  • ACT-EUR -  N/A 
    Accompagner le developpement des competences transversales par l'experience de la mbilities transnationale en Europe
  • QUASAR -  N/A 
    Development of strategic data in relation to total quality management systems in the field of ongoing professional training for women
  • FORMAXYLOS -  N/A 
    Training of craftsmen in new technologies for wood processing
  • Conservation and restoration of Architectural Heritage -  N/A 
    Development of educational tools for the conservation of Architectural Heritage
  • EQUIP -  N/A 
    Recearch on I.T. skills and attitude of Women that participate in training programs in Greece
  • SMART LANGUAGES TOOLBOX FOR EUROPEANS -  N/A 
    The objective of the project is to create a tool that will help students of secondary education as well as business people to learn different languages. As far as secondary education children are concerned, learning will be targeted towards the everyday activities (eg introducing new people, visiting restaurants, weather, outing, shopping etc) whereas for business people learning will target business activities such as making a professional phone call, writing a professional email, paying an invoice etc.
  • EUPA-VALIDATION OF FORMAL, NON FORMAL AND INFORMAL LEARNING: THE CASE STUDY OF PERSONAL ASSISTANTS -  N/A 
    The project aims to develop a qualifications framework for Personal Assistants based on learning outcomes (Los), to identify Los that may be easier to be developed through non formal and informal learning and to use this information to design methodological tools to be used during formal training for these outcomes, to develop with the aid of an Assessment Tool a European certification for secretaries and Pas and to develop a modular curriculum & training material that will enable Pas to certify and to assign credits to the modules of this curriculum.
  • WISAR: ECONOMY ORIENTED LIFELONG LEARNING STRATEGIES IN THE REGION -  N/A 
    The WiSaR project sets out to develop regional economy-oriented strategies for lifelong learning on a cooperative basis.The project pursues the development of local strategy for life long learning which:
    •It is relative and corresponds to the needs of region, local economy and enterprises
    •In has been shaped with the involvement of local economic organizations and formers of for life learning.
  • EM-KIT “EMPOWERMENT KIT FOR IMMIGRANT WOMEN WITH LOW EDUCATIONAL/WORKING EXPERIENCE” -  N/A 
    The EM-Kit “Empowerment Kit for immigrant women with low educational/working experience” is a 2 year project which aims at improving accessibility to pre / vocational /professional education for immigrant women, especially those with low educational / working experience, in order to help them to enter labor market and become more active members of society. The project will result to an empowerment kit in key competences based on the needs of the target group. The preparatory kit will comprise a set of modules needed for entrance to formal pre / vocational / professional education by immigrant women with low educational / working experience and it will be an important step for immigrant women’s access to employment and active citizenship through conscious choice of profession, development of individual action plan and acquirement of competences necessary for successful attendance of vocational programs in the host country.  The training will be combined with continuous individual support provided by the bilingual mentors with intercultural background.
  • CQAF-VET: COMMON QUALITY ASSURANCE FRAMEWORK AT VET-PROVIDER LEVEL -  N/A 

    “CQAF-online: Common Quality Assurance Framework-VET, a provider online model” project develops an operational model of a common European tools and documents for Quality Assurance (QA) for Vocational Education & Training (VET). The aim of CQAF is to help Member States and participating countries to develop, improve, monitor and evaluate their own VET systems and practices, based on common principles, criteria and tools.


    The project is a continuation of the action that was completed in October 2011, through which developed the basic structure and the content of the model. At this stage there will be the necessary corrections through an application process – test of the model to training providers, in order to be applicable for different VET providers in different EU countries. Finally, it will be developed, a user friendly online version of the model.


    The program is co funded by the European Union with the participation of organizations from Greece, Sweden, Spain, Netherlands, and Cyprus.
  • RIZARI ONE - 1999
    Framework of ideas for the regeneration and preservation of Ambelakia in the prefecture of Larissa
  • EBEM - European Bridges for European Minorities -  N/A 
    The project supports actions implemented by young people against discrimination within all social levels
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