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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.
 

• Organized Seminars entitled «Psychology of young people» with participation of the teachers of the seven schools we supervise
• Meetings of briefing and training of teachers on specialized issues and training process.
• participation in European program Leonardo entitled «appropriate use of new technologies promotes communicative competence in the classroom».
• participation in European program Comenious in a twinning-student exchange with German, Finnish and Lithuanian schools
• visits.

promotion of holistic learning for every age educating schools’ teachers and group facilitators (holistic approaches, self-development)   human values in education   environment & sustainable consciousness   the partnership «art & environment»  contemporary visual arts initiatives (exhibitions, public interventions, land art, artists' books)   Peace Education, Human Rights Education   Global Education   lifelong learning workshops   creativity’s stimulation seminars   festivals, social acts, initiatives & collaborations upon current social issues (de-growth, solidarity, food sovereignty, unemployment, racism, bullying, discrimination, social violence)   community art & public art   reconciliation, non-violent communication handbooks' for facilitators, educators and social workers   solidarity movement, alternative models of economy   sustainable, self-sufficient communities   natural building, natural farming projects and seminars   «Peace Food Diet» global movement: nutrition as political stand and social responsibility

The Theater of Changes provides a practical and multidimensional education concerning the performing arts.
Festival of Acting Groups: students make up a group, select a piece to work on, rehearse it and finally present the outcome of this work at the Acting Groups’ Festival which takes place at the Theatre of Changes every September.
International Festival of Making Theatre (In.F.o.Ma.T.): every July during a whole week of creative interaction, Theatre Makers from all over the world have the opportunity to share and get acquainted with new working methods and ideas, regarding the following three sectors: Acting, Movement and Voice.
Scholarships: students who have shown character, consistency and discipline are awarded with scholarships and participation in International festivals, as well as free attendance at seminars given by some of the most important theatre professionals.

Ancient Greek Drama- Documentary theater- Connection with the Arabic culture.
Tomee Theatre- is a professional non profit theatre company, concerned with education and research, devoted to producing alternative approaches to classical forms of Drama and creating unique theatrical experiences stimulated by visual and audio means.
The Company was founded in Athens in 1982 by Maria Panoutsou and for its first production Tomee Theatre received the award for Best Performance and Promotion of Modem Greek Drama from the Audience, Critics and Festival Committee at the 8th Ithaca Festival. Maria’s Panoutsou work adopts a certain approach towards all the material (memories – society) which the individual artist accumulates on a daily basis and becomes o means of practice for a personal expression.
Tomee Theatre activities are mainly aiming at:
The study of Classical Greek Drama.
The practice and research in traditional and non-traditional theatrical forms. Contemporary Greek Theatre.
Drama related to other forms of Art.
Theatrical training as an Art in itself.
Art and Society.