Understanding Europe Greece

Name

Understanding Europe Greece

Legal name

Understanding Europe

Website

https://understanding-europe.org

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Civic and Democracy Education

NAICS

Educational Services (611), Educational Support Services (611710), Elementary and Secondary Schools (6111)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200), Services-Membership Organizations (8600)

akta.pro primary industry

Study Abroad Provider Networks, Consortia & Membership Organizations (EDAIAAAK)

akta.pro secondary industries

Inclusive Education (Disability, Gender Equity, Marginalized Learners) (BPADAKAI), Overseas Summer School Programs (Secondary) (EDAIAHAC), Education Systems & Skills Technical Assistance (BPADAEAI)

Keywords

• Democracy education programs
• Civic education workshops
• Peer education network
• European citizenship training
• Youth civic engagement

Headquarters

HQ city

Berlin

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Grant Funding and Donations: As a nonprofit educational network, Understanding Europe operates primarily through grant funding and donations. The project is funded by Stiftung Mercator, the European Union (Erasmus+), Finkelstein Foundation, BMFSFJ (German Federal Ministry for Family Affairs), SPIEGEL Ed, Hertie Foundation, Alfred Herrhausen Gesellschaft, and other institutional funders. Additional funding comes through donations to the Schwarzkopf-Stiftung Junges Europa.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Understanding Europe Greece operates as the Greek branch of the pan-European Understanding Europe network, delivering free, peer-led democracy and civic education workshops to school classes (students aged 14+) on topics including European integration, participation, social justice, climate justice, and media & journalism. The organization also qualifies young people aged 16-27 as peer trainers and educators through structured training programs, transnational events, and a Fellowship program that develops new educational formats. All workshop services, training, and educational materials are provided at no cost as Open Educational Resources.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Understanding Europe Workshops Peer-education workshops for school classes (ages 14+) covering five topics: Europa (EU institutions, history, actors), Partizipation (democracy and youth participation), Soziale Gerechtigkeit (social inequality and anti-discrimination), Klimagerechtigkeit (intersectionality and climate), and Medien & Journalismus (critical journalism and fake news). Delivered by trained peer trainers aged 16-28 in tandem.
• Training for Trainers (T4T) Three-day qualification program preparing participants aged 16-28 to become trainers. Covers group moderation, conflict and discrimination handling, and principles of inclusive peer education, including self-reflection on attitudes, values, and privileges.
• European Summer School Annual four-day qualification event in Germany for experienced trainers from across Europe to become Peer Educators. Participants learn to train new trainers and develop educational materials for specific target groups, focusing on Europe, media, social justice, climate justice, and participation.
• Coordinators' Meetings Twice-yearly gatherings of coordinators who implement the project across European regions. Provides professional development, exchange on current topics, project developments, networking, and collaboration on strategies for the network.
• Transnational Training for Trainers (TT4T) International training events with focus topics relevant to project groups across countries. Three-day programs combining expert knowledge and experienced peer educators. Nine events held since March 2022 across Armenia, Spain, Romania, Portugal, Germany, Belgium, Austria, and Türkiye.
• Fellowship Program Annual program supporting young European educators (ages 18-27) to develop new educational formats and methods on current topics. Fellows receive 450 EUR monthly for six months and develop workshops that are published as Open Educational Resources. Programs have covered Medien & Demokratie, Thinking of Europe, Digital Europe, and Transnationale Solidarität & Resilienz.
• Educational Materials Manuals, illustrations, videos, and other educational materials available in German, English, and other languages. Includes the 4-Corner Method, EU Institutions Puzzle, European Personalities illustrations, stories of European (Dis)Integration, Copenhagen Criteria materials, and workshops on topics including Fake News, Hate Speech, disability, peacebuilding, digital citizenship, and more.
• Understanding Europe Toolbox Online tool enabling peer trainers to create customized crash course handbooks. Allows selection from modules across four topics (Europe, Media & Journalism, Social Justice, Climate Justice, and Participation) to compose 2-hour or 4-hour courses for on-site or online delivery.
• Educational Briefings Annual publications in German and/or English developed with external education experts. Topics include digital spaces and democracy education, climate crisis and civic engagement, European memory culture, and media resilience. Available as free PDF downloads.
• Understanding Europe Greece (Greece Branch) Regional branch of the Understanding Europe network operating in Greece. Part of the 11-country network that includes Armenia, Belgium, Germany, Greece, Italy, Austria, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Türkiye, and Ukraine. Implements democracy education workshops in Greek schools through local youth initiatives, coordinated by national coordinators and trained peer educators.

Quantifiable outcome

• Active in 11 European countries with over 20 local youth initiatives
• +2 more outcomes

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Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

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Partnerships

17 partnerships are on record, tiered core, major and minor.

• Schwarzkopf-Stiftung Junges Europa (Schwarzkopf Foundation Young Europe)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerUnderstanding Europe is a project of the Schwarzkopf-Stiftung Junges Europa. The foundation, established in 1971 by Pauline Schwarzkopf, has been running the project for over a decade. The foundation provides the organizational home, staff, and infrastructure for the project, including the main project team based in Berlin. The foundation's mission aligns with Understanding Europe's goals of promoting European understanding and fighting extremism.
• European Youth Parliament (EYP)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerUnderstanding Europe is conducted in cooperation with the European Youth Parliament. In 10 of 11 project countries, local youth initiatives are linked to EYP organizational structures. EYP provides the network infrastructure and volunteer base that enables Understanding Europe's local implementation across Europe.
• Understanding Europe Germany e.V.coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerIn Germany, Understanding Europe is executed by Understanding Europe Germany e.V., a registered association founded in 2020 by former trainers of the Schwarzkopf Foundation. This organization handles the German implementation of the program.
• SPIEGEL EdmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerSPIEGEL Ed partnered with Understanding Europe on the Fellowship Program 'Medien & Demokratie' (Media & Democracy), providing educational expertise and support for developing media literacy educational formats.
• Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (Federal Agency for Civic Education)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe German Federal Agency for Civic Education is a partner in Understanding Europe's educational network, supporting the development and dissemination of civic education materials.
• NECE (Networking European Citizenship Education)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerNECE is a European network for citizenship education that collaborates with Understanding Europe on networking, innovation, and professional development opportunities.
• AEGEE EuropeminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerAEGEE-Europe (European Students' Forum) collaborates with Understanding Europe on network building and youth engagement across Europe.
• Citizens Take Over EuropeminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCitizens Take Over Europe works with Understanding Europe on European citizenship education initiatives and advocacy.
• Connecting EuropeminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerConnecting Europe, a program of the European Policy Centre, collaborates with Understanding Europe on policy-related education and network activities.
• Youth Peace Ambassadors NetworkminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe Youth Peace Ambassadors Network partners with Understanding Europe on peacebuilding and youth empowerment initiatives.
• ALDA (European Association for Local Democracy)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerALDA collaborates with Understanding Europe on local democracy and civic participation education.
• Democracy Reporting InternationalminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerDemocracy Reporting International partners with Understanding Europe on democratic culture and civic education.
• Uppsala UniversityminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerUppsala University collaborates with Understanding Europe on academic research and educational development in citizenship education.
• DiversionminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerDiversion (Netherlands) partners with Understanding Europe on educational innovation and inclusion initiatives.
• DROGminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerDROG collaborates with Understanding Europe on media literacy and combating disinformation education.
• FryshusetminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerFryshuset (Sweden) partners with Understanding Europe on youth engagement and empowerment programs.
• Are We EuropeminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerAre We Europe collaborates with Understanding Europe on media and storytelling projects about European identity and values.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Erasmus Student Network (ESN): ESN is a Europe-wide student network supporting international student exchange and intercultural learning, with a comparable peer-led, multi-country volunteer-driven model and similar reliance on Erasmus+ funding streams.
• European Youth Parliament (EYP): EYP is the closest structural peer and active partner: in 10 of 11 Understanding Europe countries, local delivery runs through EYP organizational structures. Both organizations mobilize 16–27-year-olds across Europe to engage in civic, democratic, and European integration activities, making EYP the most directly comparable peer.
• Citizens Take Over Europe: Citizens Take Over Europe is a listed Understanding Europe partner and a directly comparable peer organization running European citizenship education and youth civic engagement programming across European countries.
• European Youth Forum: The European Youth Forum is a pan-European platform of youth organizations representing millions of young people to EU institutions. It overlaps directly with Understanding Europe's youth civic participation mission and target demographic across European countries.
• Junior Achievement Europe: Junior Achievement Europe delivers youth education programs across multiple European countries via school partnerships and volunteer educators, closely paralleling Understanding Europe's school-based, volunteer-delivered model and pan-European scope.
• AEGEE-Europe: AEGEE (European Students' Forum) is a pan-European youth network delivering non-formal civic and European integration programming to students. Listed as an active Understanding Europe partner, AEGEE operates a similar multi-country youth-led delivery model and comparable target audience.

Broad incumbents

• Council of Europe — Youth Department: The Council of Europe's Youth Department funds and operates large-scale European citizenship, democracy, and human rights education programs targeting the same age cohort and topic areas (participation, inclusion) as Understanding Europe, with greater institutional scale.
• Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (BpB): The German Federal Agency for Civic Education is a partner of Understanding Europe and a much larger, well-resourced government-backed provider of civic education materials and programming in Germany — a broad incumbent in the same mission space.

Emerging players

• Connecting Europe (European Policy Centre): Connecting Europe is an active Understanding Europe partner focusing on policy-related European civic education. It overlaps on European integration education but has a more policy-elite audience, making it an adjacent peer rather than a direct competitor.
• Fryshuset: Fryshuset is a Swedish youth empowerment organization listed as a partner that delivers non-formal education and youth civic engagement programs with similar peer-led methodology, though concentrated in Sweden rather than pan-European.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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