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EVEC Microgreens
A hands-on teaching method
The microgreens methodology
Free courseware, toolkits and Erasmus+ partnership — for VET schools, youth work, classrooms and growers.
The organisation behind it EVEC Athens — accredited Greek NGO, European projects since 2017
- OID
- E10172681
- PIC
- 909448430
- Erasmus+ Youth accreditation
- 2023-1-EL02-KA150-YOU-000188397
- Valid until
- 2027
Co-funded by the European Union
The method
The crop is the curriculum.
The microgreens methodology is a hands-on teaching method: a fast, low-cost, living crop becomes the thing learners grow while they learn. Launched in 2025, it was developed and piloted inside a funded European Solidarity Corps project (2024-1-EL02-ESC51-VTJ-000225260).
- A complete grow cycle — sow to harvest — fast enough that every learner finishes it.
- A tray, water and light — low-cost, with no garden and no lab.
- One method across ages and rooms, from schools to adult education.
Here to grow, not to fund? Home growers · Business · Cooperative · Cooks
The organisation
The organisation behind it.
The microgreens methodology is developed and maintained by EVEC Athens — an accredited Greek NGO running European projects since 2017. Every identifier below is registered with the European Commission and can be checked in its public Erasmus+ and European Solidarity Corps registers.
- OID
- E10172681
- PIC
- 909448430
- Erasmus+ Youth accreditation
- 2023-1-EL02-KA150-YOU-000188397
- ESC Quality Label
- 2023-1-EL02-ESC50-QLA-000195138
- Validity
- both valid until 2027
Our formal Erasmus+ accreditation is in the Youth field and our ESC Quality Label covers volunteering; the methodology and its open materials serve VET, schools, adult education and research alike.
Founding project
The methodology was developed and piloted inside a funded European Solidarity Corps project. 2024-1-EL02-ESC51-VTJ-000225260
Working within: Erasmus+ & ESC · Horizon Europe
The portal is free and open.
What we bring
A partner that arrives with material, not a blank page.
Bring EVEC Athens into a consortium and the methodology arrives with a body of work already built and maintained — open access, and ready to use in a proposal.
- Science libraryPlain-language summaries of open-access research — each summary links to its original source study (Source ↗).
- ToolkitsDownloadable, for VET · schools · youth · adult education.
- Courses & coursewareFree, structured, self-paced.
- Crop & varieties databaseOne practical guide per crop.
- Project resultsWhat our European projects have produced.
- 110+ plain-language articles & guidesThe working knowledge base behind the method.
- A cookbookMicrogreens in real kitchen use.
Everything here is free to read and use.
For project writers
Send one paragraph. Get three concrete ways in.
We built and piloted this method inside a funded ESC project — so we read your idea as project-writers, not marketers. Tell us about yours: the priority, the audience, the gap you’re closing. We’ll reply with three specific ways microgreens could fit — an activity, a work-package theme, a result, or a dissemination angle. That’s your hook: the one angle where microgreens genuinely belong in your project.
- 01You send one paragraph — through the form or straight to erasmus@evec.org.gr.
- 02We read it against the methodology and the portal’s real materials.
- 03You get three concrete angles back — a real reply from the people who built the method.
Free and open. A real reply — not an autoresponder.
Find your fit
Find where your project fits.
Whoever you are, the next step is the same — but here’s where your project type already has materials to build on.
- For VET teachers & trainersA VET toolkit and free courses.
- For schools & classroomsA schools toolkit and free courses.
- For youth workersYouth-work materials; the method was born in an ESC project.
- For adult educatorsAn adult-education toolkit and free courses.
- For universities & researchersThe plain-language science library.
Not sure which fits? Find your hook →
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Ready to see where microgreens fit your project?
The microgreens methodology is developed and maintained by EVEC Athens — an accredited Greek NGO running European projects since 2017. It keeps a working urban microgreens growing space in Athens, used for demonstrations and open to partners for study visits.
OID E10172681 · PIC 909448430 · accreditations valid to 2027
One paragraph to erasmus@evec.org.gr, and you’ll get three concrete ideas back.
General enquiries: Contact us →
Co-funded by the European Union.
This portal presents the microgreens methodology; the organisation behind it is EVEC Athens — the European Voluntary and Educational Center (evec.org.gr). Views and opinions expressed are those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Commission. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.
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