Hives Project is a non-profit civic enterprise that aims to make an impact on three main themes: culture, education and environment.
We see a strong connection between these basic elements and their creation, which strengthens and strengthens. Trying to influence the environment, we are getting in contact with the cultural and educational aspect. If we want to influence education, it ends up being cultural and environmental. The same happens with culture, which confirms the interconnection between those three aspects.
As a good practice, we have created an information office to inform the local youth of our rural area about youth inclusion and give them the opportunity to go abroad, be included in seminars and workshops abroad or in an international environment and broaden their experience and skills around the world. Besides, we want to create citizenship, creating conditions for residents to participate in ideas and projects in society.
In order to be able to offer all these opportunities, we are strongly associated with the European Union Youth Policy and the use of youth to participate in publicly funded programs such as Erasmus+.
MISION, VISION, VALUE
Environment
Ecological good practices that will support our region.
Sustainable construction, renewable energy, permaculture design, consideration of the diversity of wildlife, plants and landscapes, activities and infrastructure for our field of influence.
For this reason, we manage the house as a co living pilot project with renewable energy operation, including our own cleaning products and toiletries, and producing our own groceries. We also organize information days and small local volunteer projects.
Regenerating our farm is a project we are also developing.
Another purpose of this site is to obtain information about environmental activities, infrastructure and resources that are taking place in our area, as well as interesting articles and links to obtain information.
Culture
The aim is to drop attention to the events and customs of our area, to bring the interested people closer to traditions such as music and local traditional practices of everyday life.
Here we create a guide for those who visit Halkidiki and learn about the idioms, culture and traditions of the era.
Education
We are between non formal and informal education, closer to perfection that non formal education has the best practices. It is also worth mentioning good practices in the field of formal education!
For informal Education, we organize volunteer projects aimed at developing the skills of young volunteers.
We come up with the European Solidarity Corps, a European Program that gives people the opportunity to experience abroad, so we with other youth/environmental organizations abroad.