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An annual competition “Thessaloniki International LGBTΙQ Film Festival” is organized since 1999. We organize also discussions, art exhibitions, cooperation with the municipality and other organization, and we are part of the Council of Social Control of the Public Television - Radio in Central Macedonia ERT3 / Greece. The film festival,  aims to    ✓ Get us in touch with the international LGBTΙQ cinema and the ideas and subjects on which each film focuses.    ✓ To bring together all the parts that are concerned with the LGBTΙQ cinema and issues. Thus more contact and communication can be achieved. This coexisting and diffusion takes place successfully every year.

Diversity and Migration:
-Towards an Inclusive City
-Migration and Intercultural Education in Thessaloniki
-Crossing the Dividing Line
-Registering racist violence
Education, Research,Public Dialogue and Media:
-Roundtable on racism, social cohesion and the media
-Learning the Other
-Library
-Migrant Voices
-Symβiosis weekly Radio Show on 100.6 FM

• Projet d'ateliers pour les élèves du primaire sur les thèmes de:
• La collecte différenciée des déchets urbains (Réduire, réutiliser et recycler)
• Ateliers de sensibilisation du public à la collecte différenciée des déchets organiques.
• L'éducation des jeunes consommateurs (consommation responsable)
• Le cycle de l'eau (traitement de l'eau à usage humain)
• Education à la santé (programme de habitudes saines: alimentation, hygiène et prévention / information sur le tabac et l'alcool)
• Ateliers sur la mémoire historique et la culture de la paix (habitudes sociales de collaboration, respect et solidarité contre le racisme, la violence et l'intolérance)
• Atelier sur l'égalité des sexes.
Quelques projets culturels également:
• "Thesspuppet festival", Festival International de Marionnettes et Pantomime Grecque.
• Résidences d'artistes du theatre de marionnettes.
• Journées pédagogiques sur les marionnettes dans l’éducation et dans la thérapie sociale.
• Cours sur le théâtre pédagogique et le théâtre social
• Cours sur la formation du doctor clown
• Cours sur la technique du clown (La clé de l'humour dans l'éducation)
• Diverses productions théâtrales.
• Organisation d'expositions d'art plastique (Installations)

In brief our main activities span from parents group-sessions aiming at self-awareness & empowerment to individual and collective leadership development, enhancing participation and active citizenship, events & conferences organisation and facilitation, fostering dialogue and synergy in the community. Titles of summing up such projects are: Parenthood and Empowerment in the Family and School, Youth Vocational Orientation Workshops, Arts for Social Change in the Community, Participatory Leadership & Conversations that Matter, Change in Organisations, Growing Leaders at the Workplace, Hospitality, Tourism and Extra-ordinary Experiences.

S.Mou.Th. has realized workshops and several large scale productions ("Romeo and Juliet", "A Midsummer Night's Dream", "Rubbish's Rubsody", "Amongst Genders", "Carmen" and the "Magic Flute". Within the framework of its activities, several events have been open to audiences with the form of "On stage" and "Off stage" performances.

Youth exchange 1.1. ”Educated Minds – Brighter Future” organized March 30 – April 7, 2011.
Youth exchange 1.1.”PHOTO TALK:One Icon – 1000 words” organized Juny 19 – Juny 29, 2011.
Youth exchange 1.1.”3D(imensions)” organized May 24 – May 31, 2011.
National Youth initiative 1.2.”Youth on the Move” organized Sepember – December, 2011.
Trans-National Youth initiative 1.2. „Green Village” organized September 2011 – February 2012.
EVS „Moving (in) Neighbourhoods” 2 months HO for 2 Turkish volunteers hosted December 1, 2011
– January 31, 2012 and EVS ”EVS brings Peace” 1 month HO for 2 Turkish Volunteers hosted February1 – March 1, 2012.
Youth Exchange 3.1. „Live YOUR City”, organized March 22 – March 29, 2012 with 12 partner organizations and 60 participants. Topic: Time Banking.
National Youth initiative 1.2.”Youth on the Move2” organized May – September, 2012.
Youth exchange 1.1.” Go Green For YOUR Planet” organized May 30 – June 6, 2012

• International summer school promoting the Greek language and culture taking place in Thrace and Aegean
• Teaching of Greek language by the means of arts and culture
• Creation of infrastructures at the International Educational Centre of Avdira, Thrace
• Establishing new potentially educational and cultural centers in Greece and abroad
• Education in the Balkans with the use of new technologies
• Greek culture networks in the Balkans and the Middle East
• Intercultural dissemination for minorities
• Support of young scientists, artists, and social groups with special needs

European Erasmus Plus projects
Workshops and seminars on:
Effective Communication, Active Listening, Effective Speaking
Empowering Activism
All about Social Solidarity Economy
Contact-beyond-contact
Improvisation Theater
Authentic Connection
Dance for deaf and hearing people
Montessori education
Positive Psychology

Activities programmed for the year 2007:
1. Conference on the occasion of the 50 Years since the Rome Treaty in March
2. Partnership in the E.U. project “Waves of Democracy”= Youth Conference, by the end of September
3. Conference: “Migration and xenophobia” in November.

Youth Consultation on City Branding
The Youth Consultation on City Branding is an action to identify strategic development proposals for the city branding and it took place in Katerini on March 23, 2019.
The young people expressed their ideas and suggestions during the discussion in which there was the presence of members of a Scientific Committee who submitted their own thoughts on the following topics:
1. Marketing and Branding as a Tool for the Development of the Cities of Pieria (architecture, urban design, communication design, logo design)
2. Participatory Design in shaping the brand/image of a City
3. Wine - Gastronomic routes
4. Religious tourism in Pieria
5. Monuments, Branding and Cultural Heritage Sites as  Means of Promoting Local Identity
6. City Branding through Festivals: Cultural Heritage, Creativity and Cultural Entities as elements of the brand of the cities
7. The role of media in shaping an image for a destination
8. Digital Cultural Design - Smart Cities
9. The prospects of highlighting Katerini's refugee status
10. Social innovation, solidarity policies and volunteering as a means of promoting a city
11. Sport as a mean of promoting an area
 
Youth Public Consultation in the framework of the National Youth Strategy 17-27
Starting in March 2018, in cooperation with the General Secretariat for Youth, we conducted a Youth Public Consultation in the framework of the National Youth Strategy 17-27 in Katerini. The participants expressed their views and commented on the priorities of the plan for that time frame of the National Youth Strategy, which was then voted on and ratified by the Greek Parliament.
The Municipal Youth Council of Thessaloniki
The Municipal Youth Council of Thessaloniki gives the chance to 15-30-year-old residents of the Municipality of Thessaloniki to take initiatives and become active through a standardized process designed by the Network of Youth Engagement - Katerini in collaboration with the Community Enterprise of Thessaloniki Municipality. Participants are able to propose and discuss issues affecting the entire youth population of Thessaloniki. Following the discussion, the topics are submitted to the Community Enterprise of Thessaloniki Municipality and presented to the Municipal Council in a consultative manner so as to effectively organize youth-relative events and activities.
SYN-THESIS | Municipal Council Simulation 
SYN-THESIS | Municipal Council Simulation of Katerini is a conference aiming at bringing youth in touch with the institutional procedures of the Municipal Council. It has been taking place for three consecutive years in Katerini, aiming at young people, high school students and public or resident students of Katerini up to 23 years old. By familiarizing them with the ways that the municipality operates, participants get to know the decision-making process, while acquiring administrative roles giving them the opportunity to discuss and decide on a virtual level on various issues related to local governance.