Overview
Since 20 September 2021 self-declared 'non-commercial organisations' are no longer required to provide a lobby budget. See above timeline for this registrant's historical lobby budget.
Lobbying Costs
None declared
Financial year: Jan 2022 - Dec 2022
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
8.5 Fte (10)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
0
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
ACADEMY OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP (AKEP)
EU Transparency Register
049215512245-42 First registered on 12 Nov 2013
Goals / Remit
The Academy of Entrepreneurship (AKEP) is a not-for-profit organization founded in 2007 and a well established Greek training structure. It acts in collaboration with the Federation of Hellenic Associations of Young Entrepreneurs (OESYNE) and the Educational Association of Athens ' HFAISTOS' and aims to contribute to the creation of a healthy business environment for the development of entrepreneurship in Greece and in Europe as well as to support young entrepreneurs’ business goals and plans.
From 2007 onwards, AKEP has acquired a strong background in the design and delivery of specialised entrepreneurship workshops, both face-to-face and online, developing the necessary skills required by young entrepreneurs to start-up, grow and expand their business in national, European and international markets. Since 2007, the Academy has been organizing various workshops for young and future Greek entrepreneurs in order to help them grow and further develop their own business.Main EU files targeted
Erasmus+projects:
- SOSUSK – Social and Sustainable skills for young NEET population
- ENEU – Empowerneurship for Newcomers in Europe
- Soc Entrep4NGOs – Social Entrepreneurship eLearning Programme for NGOs
- SE4ARTS - Social Entrepreneurship 4 Arts
- WIDE – Wellbeing in Digital Education
- ECCE - Empowering Creative Circular Entrepreneurs
- Succession Ready - Interactive Succession Readiness Toolkit
- INCLUDED - Promoting Inclusive Employment in the GLAM Sector through Open Innovation
- ENTREPUBL - ENTREpreneurial skills in the PUBLic sector: a digital approach
- BECBA - Boosting Employability through Circularity of Bio-waste in Rural areas
- GreenY - Promoting Youth-led Women Entrepreneurship for the development of Inclusive Green Economy (E+ nr. 618866)
- EUROTHON - European Hackathon:shaping youth ideas on the future of Europe, 2020-2-IT03-KA205-019469
Migrants' microintegration into work and social life, 2020‐1‐NO01‐KA204‐076456
- IEaSIT - Interactive Early Stage Crisis Intervention Toolkit, 2020-1-IE01-KA202-066033
- Improving Instructional Practices in Adult Learning and Supporting Adult Trainers’ IPAL - Professional Development, 2020-1-ES01-KA204-0476948
- European Network for Focus on Upskilling Pathways "Focus”, 2019-1-PL01-KA202-065777, focuses on the current situation of vocational training in Europe and supports the exchange of good practices on the topic of defining paths of improvement of competences (Upskilling Pathways)
- Cultural entrepreneurship for neets and start-ups 'RESONANT', 2019-1-DK01-KA202-060192, aims to give new instruments to NEETs, interested in cultural field, and to cultural start uppers/ entrepreneurs who want to improve their business models.
- Entrepreneurship and soft skills through FAiry Tales: an iNnovaTive Approach to entrepreneurShip educatIon in primAry schools (FA.N.T.A.S.I.A.), 2019-1-UK01-KA201-061809, aims to foster the entrepreneurial mindset and knowledge of transversal and entrepreneurial skills of primary students aged 6-9 through an innovative software based on fairy tales
- EXPRESS, 2019-2-SE02-KA205-002578, main goal to empower young migrants and refugees, creating and/or strengthening supporting services for the development of self- enterprises by this target population and strengthening cooperation among relevant actors
- COMPETE!, 2019-1-IT02-KA203-062350, general objective the development of skills and competences supporting graduates in acquiring and developing soft skills and key competences, to foster their employability, and socio-educational and personal development, in order to help them be actively involved in work and social life.
- START UP BIO, 2019-1-IT01-KA202-007492, CUP G35G19000120006, aims to support and facilitate transition and innovation processes of rural enterprises, accompanying them to the conversion from a traditional production to an organic production.Address
Head Office
Tsiller 61
Athens 11144
GREECEEU Office
Tsiller 61
Athens 11144
GREECEWebsite
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People
Total lobbyists declared
10
Employment time Lobbyists 100% 7 50% 3 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
8.5
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
No lobbyists with EP accreditations
Complementary Information
None declared
Person in charge of EU relations
Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR
Person with legal responsibility
Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR
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Categories
Category
Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar
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Networking
Affiliation
International partnerships/Cooperations:
1) StartUp Nations Mational member for Greece.
2) Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW) National Partner.
3) Euclid network
5) Euro-Mediterranean Youth Platform
6) Anna Lindh Foundation
7) ELSIR mundus
9) Vision 2020 - The horizon network
10) Glocal Factory
11) T-hap
12) Empact showcase
National partnerships:
1) Federation of Hellenic Associations of Young Entrepreneurs
2) Employment and Career Structure, Liaison Office, the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Unit of A.T.E.I. of Thessaloniki.
3) Employment and Career Structure (D.A.STA.) of the University of Macedonia.
4) Educational Association of Athens HFAISTOS
5) DIKTIO – NETWORK for REFORM in Greece and Europe.
6) Epirus Gastronomy Club
7) Aephoria.net
8) Demokritos University
9) BioMimicry Greece
10) Knowl social enterprise
11) Institute of Entrepreneurship Development
12) Mazinnov, French Greek innovation network
13) Militos
14) Praxi, help forward network
15) University of Thessaly
16) Diktio, Network for reform
17) Youth Entrepreneurship Club
18) ThinkBiz
19) Bluegrowth
20) αέλια Working Life Lab
21) Hellenic-German Chamber of Commerce
22) Hellenic-Spanish Chamber of Commerce
23) Innovation GreeceMember organisations
Educational Association of Athens "HFAISTOS" (50)
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Financial Data
Interests represented
Does not represent commercial interests
Closed financial year
Jan 2022 - Dec 2022
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
Since 20 September 2021 self-declared 'non-commercial organisations' are no longer required to provide a lobby budget. See above timeline for this registrant's historical lobby budget.
Total organisational budget in closed year
269,814€
Major funding types in closed year
EU funding, Other
Major contributions in closed year
Type Name Amount Grant ERASMUS + 249,516€ Other financial info
None declared
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
none
Groups (European Parliament)
N/A
Communication activities
- Open Innovation platform for SME's
Other activities
• DG Enterprise – Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs:
o "BizonBoard" 2013-2015 (Ref. 325391): Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs is a cross-border exchange programme which gives new or aspiring entrepreneurs the chance to learn from experienced entrepreneurs running small businesses in other EU countries. AKEP is one of the 6 Intermediary organisations in Greece
o "YOU ENTER IN EUROPE 2" 2015-2017 (Ref. 652993): The core activity of the project is the organization of relationships among new and experienced entrepreneurs: the new entrepreneur stays abroad from 1 to 6 months and works with the host entrepreneurs in order to share skills, information, experiences useful to improve their business.
• Erasmus +
o Sustainable Enterprise and Leadership for Youth – SELFY 2015-2017 (Ref. 011981): The objective of SELFY is to enable young people to lead and be enterprising so that they can become full, equal and productive members of society. An innovative methodology (SLAM!) is used for coaching and providing the necessary support.
o Key Action 2 - Capacity Building for Youth Workers to bring tourism bridges between Africa and Europe – Tbridges 2015-2017 (Ref. 559005): The project objectives are to promote the cooperation between African and European Countries in the field of youth and introduce ICT based learning and e-learning for entrepreneurship in the tourism sector.
o KA 2 ELIST – European learning Innovation for Sustainable Training 2014-2016 (Ref. 2014-1-IT02-KA204-003644): The objectives of the project are: the development and consolidation of entrepreneurial competences (knowledge, skills and attitude) in rural populations aiming at creating new pathways for employment with non-formal and informal learning activities & contribute to a positive impact on local development in a sustainable way, considering environment, economy and social context.
• LLP Programme
o Grundtvig - "Eurofolio" 2014-2015 (Ref. 538286): Developing and Providing the Achievement of the Key Competencies in Young Adults that Employers Require When Recruiting. AKEP is responsible for the quality assurance.
o Leonardo Da Vindi - "Bridging the Gap" 2014-2016 (Ref. 2013-1-GB2-LEO05-10657): The project will produce a training methodology and materials to enable business incubators, VET trainers and employment centres, to work alongside local entrepreneurs so they can engage also with marginalized/disadvantaged learners in order to empower them to develop the qualities, skills, experiences, attitudes necessary to initiate their own enterprises. AKEP is responsible for dissemination.
o Leonardo Da Vinci - "Interjob4Youth" 2012-2014 (Ref. 2012-1-ES1-LEO05-49493): INTERJOB4YOUTH project is a strategy to enhance employment mobility through an online job search services across Europe. It will have the potential to increase the efficiency of the job market by increasing the number and quality of matches between employers and job seekers.
o Leonardo Da Vinci - Partnerships - "C2C" 2011-2013: the project aims to contribute to the local economy and job creations by supporting the development of a sustainable catering sector through the provision of high quality training and business support, jointly develop and disseminate common tools and methods to continuing education professionals to provide high quality business support and adequate training to the catering sector.
o Leonardo Da Vinci TOI - "Fresh Start" 2011-2013: The project aims to develop a specialized train-the-trainer course in order to provide European VET trainers with new skills that enable them to pass their training on developing young offenders’ entrepreneurial skills.
• CIP-ICT-PSP-2013-7 - OPENISME - Open Innovation platform for SMEs 2014-2017 (Ref. 621121): The objective of OPENSME is to help unlock the innovation capacity for SMEs, through the creation of novel "Open Innovation" partnerships between European SMEs and research partners.- Meetings
Meetings
None declared
- Meetings