GENERAL CONFEDERATION OF PROFESSIONALS, CRAFTSMEN AND TRADESMEN IN GREECE CENTRE FOR VOCATIONAL TRAINING (KEK GSEVEE)

Programs of Women Counselling: General Confederation of Professionals, Craftsmen and Tradesmen in Greece Centre for Vocational Training (KEK GSEVEE)

Educational non speculative company

Address: Agiou Meletiou 166, 104 45 Athens
Telephone: 210 8544666
Web page: http://www.kekgsevee.gr
E- mail: info@kekgsevee.gr

The Centre for Vocational Training GSEVEE is an educational company of non-speculative company. It was founded in 1995 with the initiative of General Confederation of Professionals, Craftsmen and Tradesmen of Greece situated in Athens and with branches in Thessaloniki, Larissa, Patra and Heraklion. It is mainly addressed to self-employing, employers and workers of the small and intermediate Greek craft-based and commercial enterprises but also in unemployed persons of all ages that seek upgrade to their professional qualifications for the facilitation of their access in the labour market.

The main aim of the function of KEK GSEVEE is the confrontation of increased needs of employers and workers of Greek small to medium-sized enterprises for life long learning, training and professional training. Fundamental objectives are: a) the promotion of the idea and practice of life long learning in the small to medium-sized enterprise and in the Greek society in general, b) the supply of open, flexible, complete and qualitative professional training aiming at the modernisation of knowledge and professional qualifications, c) the promotion of development of enterprising skills, the efficient use of modern applications, information, technology and upgrade of technical skills of professionals, craftsmen and tradesmen, d) the contribution to the recognition and consolidation of knowledge and skills acquired by profession training, e) the aid of regional dimension of life long learning, f) the prevention and confrontation of unemployment, g) the promotion of equal opportunities in the training and in the access in the market, and h) the contribution to the equivalent access in training and work of persons that belongs in socially weak groups.

The actions materialized by the KEK GSEVEE for the achievement of that aim include:

• support actions of the trade union institutions of small to medium-sized enterprises for secondary and tertiary sector of economy for the planning, organisation and concretisation of energies of training
• works of planning and development of innovative training programs, educational material and educational methods, suitable for the training of professionals craftsman
• actions of continuing professional training of self-employing, employers, workers and unemployed people
• connection with completed European programs and initiatives
• researches of training needs, studies of professional profiles, specialised studies on issues that interest the small to medium-sized enterprises with regard to the training and the employment
• scientific publications and educational material
• actions of projection and publicity of issues of life long learning, professional training and education for adults
• actions of information and counselling to small enterprises as well as support to employed and unemployed for subjects of the labour market and promotion in employment

During 2000-2006 K.E.K. INE/National Workers' Union of Greece was activated in the field of promotion of providing equal opportunities in the sector of employment thus being the coordinator institution of the Program "Collaboration in the Family and in the Work"

Laoura Alibranti; 13-¡Òrfll-2006

NATIONAL CENTRE FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH, EKKE
14-18 Messoghion Av.-Athens 11527-GREECE
www.ekke.gr

Director: Prof. …. ’fantopoulos

The research personnel of EKKE consists of scientists of various disciplines: sociologists; anthropologists; political scientists; geographers; economists; demographers; criminologists; statisticians; historians; etc. The comprehensiveness of its scientific work is enhanced by the activities of administrative and specialised technical personnel, some of whom work in the fully equipped Computer Centre.

EKKE strives to achieve a mutually beneficial relationship between its researchers and the entire scientific community, as well as with other research centres and with institutions of Higher Education, both in Greece and in the European Union.

≈  ≈ is comprised of three active Research Institutes:

• The Institute of Urban and Rural Sociology (IURS)
  Director: Prof. Th. Maloutas
• The Institute of Social Policy (ISP)
  Director: Prof. I. Sakellis
• The Institute of Political Sociology (IPS)
  Deputy Director: Dr J. Tsiganou

¡. STRATEGIC OPERATIONAL FRAMEWORKS

• Society and Space
• Citizens, Politics and Social Transformation
• The Welfare State: Inequalities and Exclusion, within the context of the information society and research infrastructure.

≈  ≈'s Organisational Chart

EKKE's research strategy and key areas evolve around the following axes:

• Developing viewpoints, conceptual frameworks and research methods that permit an in-depth understanding of the evolving social reality.
• Linking EKKE's activities with the needs of Greek citizens.
• Linking scientific research with the policy-making process: The development of viewpoints and know-how for state policies and innovative actions within key areas of Greek society. The study and evaluation of Greek reality will link pragmatic social needs to policy-making, thereby optimizing the results over time.
• Contributing towards the articulation of national guidelines and operational plans, in co-operation with Greek policy-making institutions.
• Developing the appropriate research infrastructure and systematically monitoring research fields through "observatories" and "data banks."
• Promoting and disseminating research methods and findings, both in Greece and abroad, via the publication of scientific studies, the organisation of conferences, seminars, lectures, etc.

Scientific Studies and Research regarding Gender Issues Centre (former Diotima)

Research Centre on Gender Issues (former Diotima)

Civil non profitable company Target group: Women
Address: 24 Nikis street, 105 57, Sintagma, Athens
Telephone: 2103244380
Website: http://www.genderissues.org.gr The Research Centre on Gender Issues (KGME - former Diotima), a civil non profitable company that was founded in 1989, focuses on gender equality issues and participates actively in social and political actions both in Greece and abroad.

The basic aims of KGME are the following: to promote equality of opportunities among men and women in all areas of economic and social life, to fight against all kinds of stereotypical perceptions regarding gender roles in family and social life, to fight against discriminations and social stigma that lead to labour market exclusion and social isolation.†

Since its establishment, KGME has developed various activities, like:

• Training / sensitizing seminars, conferences and meetings.
• Networking with local society, enterprises, other organizations etc. Development of an internet website.
• Programs (participation / planning) aimed at promoting equal opportunities policy in all aspects of economic and social life with special emphasis on employment.
• A documentation Centre regarding gender issues
• Participating in European networks of non-governmental organizations.
• Participating in Counselling Support Services Programs.
• Implementing education and training programs.
• Conducting researches and scientific studies.
• Developing of products and expertise in areas relevant to its objectives.

During the period 2000-2006, its main activities regarding counselling and career guidance to women were (or are) the following:

1. Exchange and development of new products and expertise through the participation in programs such as:
   • "EQUAL E-QUALITY"
   • "EQUAL - ANDROMEDA"
   • "Cooperating in the Spheres of Family and Employment"
   • "EQUAL MEVEL"
2. Counselling services through the Support Services Centre and through the implementation of the following programs:
   • PERSEPHONE
   • Support and solidarity of women in Greece and abroad.

Support Services KGME operates as a certificated Counselling Services Centre and provides a series or services aiming to support, empower and sensitize women, public and private organizations, non-governmental organizations and the Greek society in general. It addresses to unemployed women and/or women in danger of social exclusion (single parents, long-term unemployed, immigrants and repatriates). The Support Services Centre aims both at supporting women who face various problems in employment integration and at fighting against stereotypes that creates various problems to women's social and economic integration.
It implements two kinds of activities:

• Counselling and Support (Reception Service - Social Service, Psychological Counselling Service, Career Guidance Service, Counselling in Legal Issues Service, Promotion in Employment Service).
• Sensitizing, Networking, Dissemination (Sensitising Seminars, Conferences - Meetings, Sensitising - dissemination material, Actions aimed at activating women target groups.
• KGME has also implemented (or implements) career guidance actions that promote equal opportunities policy, in terms of the following programs:
• Action Project "PERSEPHONE".
• "Support and Solidarity to Women of Greece and abroad".

Research Centre for Gender Equality

Laoura Alipranti

Research Centre for Gender Equality, Ministry of Interior Legal Entity under Private Law

Target group: Women Address: 51 Ch. Trikoupi street & Valtetsiou street, 106 81, Athens
Tel.: 2103898000
Website: http://www.kethi.gr
E- mail: kethi@kethi.gr The Research Centre for Gender Equality (KETHI), a Legal Entity under Private Law, was founded in 1994. The main office is located in Athens and there are four branches in Thessalonica, Patras, Heraklion and Volos.† KETHI is supervised and funded by the General Secretariat for Equality of the Ministry of Interior Affairs, Public Administration and Decentralization.

The basic aims of KETHI are improving women's status and enabling their advancement in all areas of political, economic and social life, extirpating discriminations against them and conducting social research and scientific studies on gender equality issues.†

To achieve these objectives, KETHI has developed various activities, such as:

• Providing documentation and information on issues regarding women's rights, gender equality in employment, entrepreneurship, and social integration and promoting information exchange regarding gender equality between European and international organizations.
• Networking of organizations aiming to improve women's status in employment, entrepreneurship and social integration.
• Sensitising, educating, and training agencies, groups, organisations, and individuals regarding gender equality.
• Planning, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating projects that promote gender equality.
• Supporting experimental institutions working for women's empowerment and equal participation.
• Raising awareness on gender equality by printing and publishing studies, research, and other informational material, through producing audio-visual material and organizing lectures and conferences.

1. Activities regarding Counselling and Career Guidance of Women and Promotion of Equal Employment Opportunities
   • Providing information and expertise on employment, entrepreneurship and social integration issues, as part of the following programs/action projects:
     • Integrated Interventions aimed at the support of Women (5/2003-12/2006). This Program includes the following Action Projects: Integrated Interventions aimed at the support of Women in the regions of Athens and South Attica, Equal abilities - Equal opportunities, Persephone.
     • Local employment initiatives (9/2003 - 12/2006 and in South Attica 5/2005 - 12/2008).
     • "IMPLEMENT" (11/2004 - 10/2006)
     • Entrepreneurship and Technological Development Centres (KETA) (10/2005 - 12/2007)
     • Equal ANDROMEDA (2/2002 - 3/2005)
     • "Cooperating in the Spheres of Family and Employment" (11/2002 - 2/2004)
     • Equal E - QUALITY (2002-2004)
   • Providing counselling services in the "Information and Counselling Centres for Women's Employment, Entrepreneurship and Social Integration".
2. Information and Counselling Centres for Women's Employment, Entrepreneurship and Social Integration (1996 - 2003)
   Information and Counselling Centres were founded in Athens, Thessaloniki, Patras, Heraklion and Volos under the supervision of the General Secretariat for Equality and the support of European Union. They address women who face employment and social integration problems, who need legal help or/and who are threatened by social exclusion (single parents, abused women, immigrants, repatriates, inhabitants of isolated areas) approaching issues such as: unemployment, social and employment integration or reintegration, information on training, entrepreneurship and employment programs that are implemented by public organizations, legislation, women's abuse, emigration/repatriation and geographical isolation.†
   Information and Counseling Centers' activities:
   
   • Counselling Services aimed to support women
     • Career Counselling
     • Counselling and Psychological and Social Support
     • Counselling regarding legal issues
     • Providing Information
     • Counselling for Social Groups threatened by social exclusion
   • Developing a network of KETHI's units and of support structures for women's employment in Greece and in the European Union
   • Developing methodologies and counselling material
   • Developing methods that reflect the needs of women with special personal and social characteristics.
   • †Activities aiming at disseminating/promoting the project.

Social Policy Center (KEKOIPO

Laoura Alipranti

Social Policy Center (KEKOIPO), Municipality of Kifissia. Legal Entity under Public Law

Address: 70 Dionysiou street & Gortynias street, 145 63, Kifissia, Greece
Tel.: 2108019633
Website: http://www.kifissia.gr
E- mail: pronia@kifissia.gr

KEKOIPO is a Legal Entity under Private Law, which operates under the authority of the Municipality of Kifissia since 1995 and practices social policy. Its target group includes citizens of Kifissia and of other municipalities (approximately 62.000 people).

Main objectives of KEKOIPO are the dissemination/promotion of the municipality's activities and development, the detection of its social needs and the development of programs that would satisfy these needs. Its long-term objective is the improvement of citizens' quality of life and the prevention of social problems.

KEKOIPO has developed activities that include (among others):

• A social service department that provides counselling, psychosocial and economic support, information etc
• Implementation of a Counselling Program aiming to support women.
• Coordination of the following Action Project: "Integrated Interventions aimed at the support of women in the regions of Athens and South Attica" (as part of "Employability and Vocational Training" Project - GGI), 2004-2006, see also www.gynaika-ergasia.gr
  This Action Project aims at improving and facilitating women's integration and participation in the labour market. It provides special information, counselling and social support. 360 women, employed and unemployed, participate in the project.
  Services:
  
  • Counselling
  • Counselling and psychosocial support
  • Counselling regarding legal issues.

  General Secretariat for Equality (GGI) is the Final Responsible of the Program, which is co-financed by the European Union and the Greek government. Research Centre for Gender Equality (KETHI) acts as its scientific advisor.

  Institute of Educational and Professional Orientation (I.E.K.E.P.)

  Programs of Women Counselling: Institute of Educational and Professional Orientation (I.E.KE.P.) Centre for Vocational Training.

  Address: Averof 3A, 14 232, Nea Ionia.
  Telephone: 210 2586970
  Web page: http://www.iekep.gr
  E- mail: info@iekep.gr

  IEKEP is an organisation non profitable, Legal Entity under private low, which was founded in 1990 and it is addressed to unemployed men and women, workers but also to groups of people threatened by social exclusion. The correspondence to the increasing demands of globalized market for Professional Training and Professional Orientation, the promotion of professional and social integration to unemployed people, the development and the application of programs in national and European level, the studies elaboration and the production of educational tools, the development of a completed orientation action and the development of methodological career management tools are some of the project objectives. The promotion of equality between the two sexes constitutes an important dimension of IEKEP's objectives, not only in the given training and counselling but also in the relative tools development. More precisely, the efforts for women's support and intensification run through all the institution's actions.

  For the achievement of these objectives IEKEP has developed various activities included:

  SUPPLY OF PROFESSIONAL TRAINING 2000-2006

  • Supply of Professional training to various subjects (eg economy-administration, pedagogic and instructors' education, environment etc).
  • Development and application of innovative pilot and completed programs (like the Community Initiative EQUAL, the Program LEONARDO DA VINCI, the Innovative Measures of ARTICLE 6, the Initiative YOUTHSTART etc)
  • Elaboration of studies and researches on issues concerning the promotion of the equality of two sexes, the employment and the labour market, the professional orientation and career management, the accreditation of qualifications, etc)
  • The development and the production of model educational material and Professional Orientation material.
  • Actions of application of Professional Orientation and Promotion to the Employment.

  During the period 2000-2006 the activity developed by the institution concerning the professional orientation and women's counselling and the promotion of equal occasions in the work place lies on:

  1. The transport and the development of know-how and new products in the framework of participation in programs like:
     • Application of New Methods of Work to Cultural Differentiated Groups: "Intelligent Adaptation" Enterprises and immigrant women's skills improvement.
     • "Perse-Foni"
     • DIAPLUS of Employment Training. Open Methodology for Life-long Career Management.
  2. the women's preparation, support and intensification for their promotion in the labour market and the supply of counselling services in the framework of the application of actions of professional orientation and promotion to the employment.

  Laura Alibrandi

  Family and Child Care Centre

  By Laoura Alipranti

  Family and Child Care Centre (KMOP)
  Social Service Target group: Individuals in danger of social exclusion
  Address: 75 Skoufa street
  Telephone: 2103637547, 2106234550
  Website: http://www.kmop.gr
  E- mail: kmop@teledomenet.gr

  The Family and Child Care Centre (KMOP), a non-governmental organization that was founded in 1979, collaborates with the Ministry of Social Solidarity. Its main objective is the support of families through a series of integrated social services, the local development of under-privileged areas, the support of individuals threatened by any form of discrimination and social exclusion, the scientific research and the development of expertise in social policy issues.

  Since its establishment, KMOP has undertaken various programs in collaboration with a large number of organizations both in Greece and abroad, such as:
  Planning and operating the Open Tender Care Centres for Elders, Implementing an experimental program aimed at receiving and supporting immigrants, the Third European Program against poverty, Founding three (3) boarding houses for heavily retarded individuals and one (1) day care center for the slightly retarded, maintaining a social service and day care centre for Primary Education students with speech and adjustment difficulties in school. KMOP also participates in national and European programs, such as: Sexual abuse of children and Tourism. Manual of best practices around Europe concerning Reconciliation of Family and Professional Life, Time management of immigrants and refugees in the EU, Paternity and Maternity: overcoming Gender Stereotypes and Promoting Gender Equality, The Youngsters Reply: Comparisons of different parental models, Reconciliation, Men in Family Project.

  KMOP has implemented (or implements) various career counselling and guidance activities aimed at promoting equal opportunities policy, through the following programs:

  • Support services programs - programs against labour market social exclusion: Action Projects "Mentor", "New Horizons", "Asklipios", "Paremvasi (Intervention)", "Allilegyi (Solidarity)".
  • Action Project: Equal abilities - Equal opportunities
  • Action Project: Integrated intervention in Municipality of Korydallos

  KEK Institute of General Federation Labor of Workers in Greece

  Non- profitable organization

  13- April- 2006 Counseling programs for women: KEK Institute of General Federation Labor of Workers in Greece

  Address: 71a Emmanuel Benaki str, 10681, Athens
  Telephone: 210- 3327727, 210- 3327734-5
  Website: www.inegsee.gr
  E- mail: zsinog@inegsee.gr K.E.K./INE GSEE is a non profitable organization, of private law character, that was established from GSEE in 1995. The target group is unemployed persons, employed in the public or public sector and groups socially vulnerable (especially unemployed over the age of 45, unemployed women, long term unemployed, new incomers in the labor market, emigrants, immigrants, refugees, Gypsies, Pomacs, single parent families).

  Basic goals of the organization comprise of:
  

  1. the planning and development of actions for special groups of the population,
  2. the planning and the materialization of supporting services,
  3. the observation of the educational system's evolution and especially the technical one,
  4. the observation of the Continuous Occupational Training evolution,
  5. the planning and the development of activities for the Union- trade training,
  6. the research and study of issues concerning the educational policy, political training and lifelong learning,
  7. the research and study of issues concerning the education and training of adults (educational theories, methodologies of adults' education, specifications for educational packages etc.) and
  8. the evaluation of entrepreneurship programs for the Human Resource.

  For achieving these goals, KEK has developed various complete, multidimensional activities in a European, central and regional level. These activities refer mainly to the materialization of:

  • Actions in the frame of complete programs and communal initiatives
  • Actions that aim in the development of a network in a regional, national and European level
  • Actions for making known to the public and spreading the results and products of the research- studies
  • Actions for the preparation and promotion of the employment
  • Educational instruments
  • Creation of data bases and observation posts for issues concerning the employment

  Specifically, by planning and materializing complete programs and intervention, the goal is:

  • The support of social groups that are dangerous to be in the margin of the labor market
  • To contribute by creating new working positions
  • The planning and materialization of actions for the promotion and the employment
  • The support of entrepreneurship and self employment
  • The creation of a network of national and regional carriers which will help the achievement of additional goals
  • The creation of district and local relation with the enterprises for promoting employment and self employment
  • The sensitization and activation of carriers and employers
  • The supply of additional and supportive services to unemployed people
  • The sufficient function of the already existing national and regional structures for supporting the unemployed

  For the time period 2000- 2006 KEK has been activated in the field of promoting equal opportunities for employment and was the leading carrier in the project "EQUAL- E- QUALITY"

  Laura Alipranti, 13- April- 2006