Events - 29.05.2023

A Step Forward / Closing Event

Closing Event of the project

2020 – 2023

Wednesday 31/05/2023, 11:00am

  • 11:00 | Launch of the event – Welcoming Gratitude for the interest of attending the event
  • 11:05 | Welcoming officials and Greeting | Evgenia Thanou – General Director of Doctors of the World Greece
  • 11:15 | Welcoming officials | Steinar Matthiasson – Country officer for Greece, FMO, Brussels
  • 11:25 | Welcoming officials | Epaminondas Farmakis – Director of “Asylum and Migration” and “Local Development and Poverty Reduction” programmes in Greece, 2014-2021
  • 11:30 | Presentation of the project A Step Forward | Aliki Tzanedaki – Project Manager A Step Forward

The project “A step Forward” is being implemented under the “Asylum and Migration” programme in Greece, implemented by Doctors of the World. The “Asylum and Migration” programme in Greece, financed by Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway, was awarded a total budget of 16,5 million euros as part of the EEA Grants 2014 – 2021. The program aspires to contribute to ensuring legal protection, support and care for the most vulnerable asylum seekers, with emphasis on unaccompanied children. The Fund Operator for the “Asylum and Migration” programme in Greece is SOL Consulting S.A in partnership with Human Rights 360.