Who we are

Two things, kept deliberately distinct. The microgreens methodology is what this portal documents: one hands-on learning methodology, running since 2025, that works for any vocation and any age. EVEC Athens — the European Voluntary and Educational Center (legal name EVROPAIKO ETHELONTIKO KAI EKPAIDEFTIKO KENTRO) — is the non-governmental organisation behind the methodology, based in Athens, Greece, working in youth, volunteering and education through European projects since 2017.

The methodology was born inside EVEC’s European Solidarity Corps project 2024-1-EL02-ESC51-VTJ-000225260 — “Stay Healthy, Beautiful and Young — Detox with Microgreens” — and is built and run by a team of international volunteers. It has been running since 2025, and this portal has been live since August 2025. What started as a way to grow food in a city with very little space became something larger: an education programme, a startup hub, and this open knowledge portal.

Read more about the people behind the methodology, or meet the organisation itself — who EVEC Athens are and everything else they do — at evec.org.gr.

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Our results — free and open to everyone

A European project result is only worth something if people can actually find it and use it after the project ends. Too many end up as a PDF nobody opens. Ours are published here, kept alive, and free for anyone — teachers, growers, youth workers, other organisations — to use and adapt. And so that you always know exactly what you are looking at, we label everything in two tiers: results that are live and in daily use, and open drafts you can help finish.

Live and in daily use

Nothing in this tier is a plan or a promise. Every item below exists now, is in use now, and is one click away — open it and check.

This portal

Status: live — since August 2025

The portal itself is a project result — built and maintained by volunteers, and still growing as each new volunteer and intern adds to it. It is also our answer to the sustainability question every application has to face: results published here stay findable, usable and free after the funding ends.

Help build it →

The toolkits — open drafts you can help finish

Status: open drafts — published for piloting, each with its own feedback form

Four practical toolkits are published as open drafts on this portal. We do not present them as finished results, because they are not: they are working documents, complete enough to use and open enough to improve.

• The 10-Day Growing Guide — from sowing to first harvest, step by step.
• A classroom toolkit for lower-secondary learners (13–14).
• A hydroponics and sensors toolkit for learners aged 15–19.
• A bootcamp toolkit for young entrepreneurs aged 18–30.

Piloting and finalising a draft open educational resource with real learners is a legitimate, fundable project activity — which makes finishing these toolkits a ready-made work package for a consortium. Open a draft, try it with your group, and use the feedback form on its page to tell us what worked and what did not.

Open the toolkit drafts →

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All results, always current

Every result we publish gets its own record with its status, audience and a direct link. This list updates automatically as new results are added.

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The project record

This record belongs to EVEC Athens, the organisation behind the methodology: EU grants for 20+ Erasmus+ and European Solidarity Corps projects since 2017 — while the microgreens methodology itself dates from 2025. These are the references as they appear in official records, so you can verify any of them; the microgreens projects and both accreditations come first. EVEC’s identifiers: OID E10172681, PIC 909448430.

As applicant

Reference	Project	Action
2025-1-EL02-KA151-YOU-000297742	Stay Healthy, Beautiful and Young — Detox with Microgreens 2	KA1 Youth
2025-1-EL02-ESC51-VTJ-000345995	Microgreens as an Educational Tool	ESC
2024-1-EL02-KA151-YOU-000229166	Plant, Market, Sell / Growing a Healthy Future with Microgreens — Youth Worker Edition	KA1 Youth
2024-1-EL02-ESC51-VTJ-000225260	Stay Healthy, Beautiful and Young — Detox with Microgreens	ESC
2023-1-EL02-KA150-YOU-000188397	Erasmus+ KA1 Youth Accreditation (valid until 2027)	Accreditation
2023-1-EL02-ESC50-QLA-000195138	ESC Quality Label (valid until 2027)	Accreditation
2019-3-EL02-KA105-005449	Non-Discrimination Mode: ON	KA1 Youth
2019-1-EL02-KA105-004915	Natur Act	KA1 Youth
2018-3-EL02-KA105-004566	Writing Peace	KA1 Youth
2018-3-EL02-KA105-004669	Move for Peace	KA1 Youth
2018-1-EL02-KA105-003872	Inclusion of Migrants in Hosting Society	KA1 Youth

As partner in other consortia

Reference	Project	Action
2025-1-RO01-KA153-YOU-000298169	Empowering NEET Youth for Sustainable Future	KA1 Youth
2023-3-ES02-KA153-YOU-000183352	NaturAmbience — Promoting Environmental Sustainability through Youth Work	KA1 Youth
2023-1-PL01-KA210-VET-000160460	Reducing Pollution and Empowering Youth through Himmeli Creation	KA210 VET
2022-3-PL01-KA152-YOU-000102616	Bullying Proof	KA1 Youth
2022-3-PL01-KA153-YOU-000102517	Supporting Young Migrants — International Training for Youth Workers	KA1 Youth
2022-1-BG01-KA153-YOU-000069311	Establish Youth-Friendly Spaces	KA1 Youth
2021-1-BG01-KA153-YOU-000012310	Animate Yourself! Socio-Educational Animation Tools for Young NEETs	KA1 Youth
2019-1-BG01-KA105-061304	Young Improvers for Youth Development	KA1 Youth
2019-1-DK01-KA105-060015	Faino	KA1 Youth
2019-1-RO01-KA105-062404	Your Voice Matters!	KA1 Youth
2018-3-PL01-KA105-061143	UKS Conrad	KA1 Youth
2018-2-PL01-KA105-051497	Sports Club Beniaminek 03	KA1 Youth
2017-3-AT02-KA105-002000	Break the Silence	KA1 Youth

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What we do, in practice

• We host European volunteers. International volunteers have built and run the methodology from the beginning — the growing, the workshops, the writing, the recipes.
• We produce open educational resources. Three free self-paced Academy courses are live and complete; four practical toolkits are published as open drafts for piloting; everything is free.
• We run workshops. Hands-on sessions in Athens, delivered by our team and volunteers.
• We work with schools. Bringing microgreens into classrooms as a cross-curricular, hands-on teaching tool.
• We support young entrepreneurs. Free growing space, mentoring and brand support through our cooperative.
• We translate science for the public. Making publicly funded research readable by the public that funded it.

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Partner with us

EVEC Athens, the organisation behind the methodology, is looking for partners across Europe — schools, NGOs, youth organisations, universities, research groups and social enterprises — for projects in youth work, education, green skills, youth entrepreneurship, urban food and science communication.

What we bring to a partnership — every item below is concrete and checkable on this portal:

• A working growing space in Athens. Real production infrastructure, in use today and offered free to young entrepreneurs — not a plan for one.
• A live dissemination platform. This portal — 110+ open articles, a 29-guide crop database, a plain-language Science Library, three free courses and a tested cookbook — keeps project results visible and usable long after the funding ends.
• Practical volunteer-hosting experience. European Solidarity Corps volunteers have built and run the methodology from the start — hosting them well is a skill we practise, not a claim we make.
• Direct reach to several audiences at once. Young people, teachers, youth workers, entrepreneurs and the general public.
• A theme that scales from a classroom to a business. Microgreens connect education, green transition, health and entrepreneurship in one concrete, low-cost activity.

A note on documentation: EVEC’s organisational identifiers (OID E10172681, PIC 909448430), both accreditations and the full project reference list above are the record your application form asks for — every reference is checkable in official EU records. If you are drafting an application, write to erasmus@evec.org.gr and we will also send a short partner description ready to paste into the form.

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Use our work

Our educational materials are free to use. If you are a teacher, youth worker or organisation and something here is useful to you, take it and use it — that is what it is for. We only ask that you credit the source, and we would genuinely like to hear what you did with it. If what you use is one of the four toolkit drafts, the feedback form on its page is the best way to tell us — piloting a draft and reporting back is the most useful contribution an outside reader can make.