This toolkit is the product of the YEP project’s collaborative training course, designed to empower children and youth to actively participate in spatial planning. It equips educators, youth workers, planners, and community leaders with practical tools like photovoice, collective mapping, and model-making. This toolkit encourages reflection on ecological and socio-spatial inequalities and supports the co-creation of just, sustainable spaces…| Inter Alia
This toolkit is the product of the YEP project’s collaborative training course, designed to empower children and youth to actively participate in spatial planning. It equips educators, youth workers, planners, and community leaders with practical tools like photovoice, collective mapping, and model-making. This toolkit encourages reflection on ecological and socio-spatial inequalities and supports the co-creation of just, sustainable spaces…| Inter Alia
This toolkit is the product of the YEP project’s collaborative training course, designed to empower children and youth to actively participate in spatial planning. It equips educators, youth workers, planners, and community leaders with practical tools like photovoice, collective mapping, and model-making. This toolkit encourages reflection on ecological and socio-spatial inequalities and supports the co-creation of just, sustainable spaces…| Inter Alia
About: The purpose of the present study is, on one hand, the in-depth understanding of the powers that drive Greek political contestation today, and on the other hand, the depiction of these segments of a rather homogeneous population that tend to engage in intense political confrontation with each other.Currently, there are a plethora of scholars studying the role of political politicisation in western societies. They principally record a mixture of economic, social, demographic and technolo...| Inter Alia
“Super FEM” was a 24 months project that promoted equal treatment of all genders by exploring innovative and intersectional learning approaches to achieve personal and collective empowerment, skills development and social integration of the beneficiaries. This Toolkit is intended to be a useful tool for all those who wish to work with marginalised groups, especially femininities, in order to create a more inclusive and equitable environment for individuals who often face significant barri...| Inter Alia
This toolkit is the product of the YEP project’s collaborative training course, designed to empower children and youth to actively participate in spatial planning. It equips educators, youth workers, planners, and community leaders with practical tools like photovoice, collective mapping, and model-making. This toolkit encourages reflection on ecological and socio-spatial inequalities and supports the co-creation of just, sustainable spaces that prioritise the needs and voices of youth, esp...| Inter Alia
Take the quiz and find out which “Tribe” you belong to! (Reactionary Conservatives – Conservatives – Balancers – Progressive Activists – Resigned) Quiz duration: 5 minutes The present study attempts to systematically map social perceptions and value orientations in contemporary Greek society, through the conceptual and methodological framework of the ‘Hidden Tribes’ model. In a period of constant crises, intense political polarization and value volatility, the analysis reveals...| Inter Alia
On June 20th, we visited Thessaloniki for a special collaboration with the Thessaloniki Tenants’ Union. Together, we presented the set “The fight for home”, which was curated for and screened at PDSFF25, in Athens. The screening was followed by a discussion focused on the challenges faced by renters in Thessaloniki and in Greece. Audience members and organisers compared the realities depicted in the films with their own experiences, raising concerns about the future of housing and empha...| Inter Alia
This toolkit is the result of a collaborative training course that explores radical approaches to sustainable spatial planning through a lens of social justice, degrowth politics, and collective action. It encourages youth workers, educators, and community leaders to reflect on urban and environmental challenges and explore inclusive, hands-on methods for engaging with them. Through experiential sessions like forum theatre, collective mapping, and local policy analysis, participants are encou...| Inter Alia
Our second YEP training course in Bacău, Romania, began with a recap of the key themes discussed during the first training in Italy. These included radical spatial sustainability, socio-spatial justice, degrowth, and participatory planning, concepts that set the foundation for our shared learning journey. Building on these theoretical insights, we transitioned into the practical dimensions of youth participatory spatial planning, delving into the unique YEP methodology. We explored participa...| Inter Alia
On May 10th Inter Alia hosted a gathering in Athens, at Akadimia Platonos, as part of the European Schools of Care bringing together artists, activists, and thinkers to face up with the subtle and brutal ways authoritarianism damages not only bodies but also the psyche, flattening difference, demanding conformity, and freezing public imagination. In a world with excessive images of atrocity and shaped by overlapping crises, such as genocide, war, fascism, ecological collapse, the event pose...| Inter Alia
Join us on Tuesday, May 20th at 18:30 (GMT+2 / Greece time) for our Annual Members’ Meeting — a space to reflect on the year’s work, exchange ideas, and engage in open discussion with Members and friends of the Programme. This event is a great opportunity to: Interested in Joining the Programme? Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/KTt9qbb5RpWlDGVyl-jVIg Help us prepare: Please take 3 minutes to fill out this short form — it includes introductory ques...| Inter Alia
YEP! (Citizens and EU Values-2024-CHILD-Project Number: 101190098) considers the direct involvement of children and youth in decision making processes that influence their lives and everyday experiences a fundamental prerequisite for sustainable transitions that are “just for all”. YEP!’s activities involve children into spatial planning processes to create more equitable and sustainable environments to promote social justice, democracy, and well-being. In particular, YEP! promotes...| Inter Alia
EU Media Freedom In Deepening Crisis Amid Rising Authoritarianism Media freedom, the first line of defence against authoritarianism, is crumbling across the EU, according to Liberties’ Media Freedom Report 2025 (Report). Governments influence the media by allocating state funding to government-friendly outlets and using public service media for their communication tools; journalists face widespread threats and violence, with female journalists targeted the most, and are denied requests fo...| Inter Alia
On March 28, we gathered in Inter Alia’s Community Space for an event that brought together locals and internationals to explore one of the most pressing issues of our time: the housing crisis. Titled “(NOT) Feeling at Home”, the evening invited students, workers, interns, and volunteers—whether Greek or from abroad—to reflect on their personal experiences and the broader impact of housing insecurity. The event began with an insightful presentation by Nikos Papakostas – co funder ...| Inter Alia
„Respekt für Griechenland“ volunteers have created low-treshold accessible workshops, based on their research about political developments in different Greek historical periods. Each person has conducted desk and field research on a specific period and will act as an „expert“ in this certain political period. The idea for „Soirees“ is for the ‘experts’ to present to an invited audience their findings and facilitate interventions and round-table discussions among the participa...| Inter Alia
On this year’s 23 February, elections took place in Germany. The results sparked intensive debates about Germany’s role in the upcoming years, especially within the European Union. With a clear shift to the right, leftists are facing an ever-increasing set of challenges – an accelerating climate catastrophe, the cost-of-living crisis, Germany’s continuous support for the genocide in Palestine and the pressing threat posed by far-right parties and their allies around the world. Despite...| Inter Alia
On Saturday, March 29, Galileo Circolo Arci hosted us for an intense day of dialogue, exploration, and collective action. Together, we deconstructed traditional maps and reimagined the urban space of our city through our experiences as women, queer people, and marginalised identities. We discussed the right to the city, safety, accessibility of public spaces, and the urgent need for community. We reflected on who designs public space and how, and imagined more inclusive alternatives. Through ...| Inter Alia
Positively Different Short Film Festival 2025 was embraced by the Athenian audience, who, with an impressive turnout and warm participation became part of a four-day celebration full of cinema, discussions and encounters, creation and daring imagination. This year, the programme of the festival presented more diverse than ever, with 48 films that composed 9 thematic sets, which unveiled aspects and intersections of different societies, struggles and identities from all corners of the globe. T...| Inter Alia
The YEP training course on radical spatial sustainability in Galatina had been a dynamic journey of learning, reflection, collective dreaming, and collaboration. We began with an insightful walk-and-talk session that encouraged participants to engage with one another and reflect on their diverse socio-spatial experiences. The discussions focused on both positive and negative practices and policies, accompanied by real cases of socio-spatial justice and injustice in Galatina. These were then...| Inter Alia
Positively Different Short Film Festival’s curatorial team brings this year’s audience 48 films separated into 9 sets. From Thursday 3 to Sunday 6 April, documentaries and fiction shorts from all corners of the world meet in (made accessible*) Astor Cinema. Leaving behind the solid ground of our bright or grim realities, we open our hearts and minds to what has yet to come. Tickets: https://www.more.com/gr-el/tickets/cinema/pdsff25 Take a look at the festival‘s trailer, HERE.Read the pr...| Inter Alia
The decline of democracy deepens, the EU’s tools prove insufficient: Report by the Civil Liberties Union For Europe with the participation of Inter Alia. Europe’s democratic recession has deepened in 2024, according to the Liberties Rule of Law Report. Countries seen as democratic strongholds are sliding towards authoritarian tendencies and the EU’s tools to safeguard the rule of law are becoming increasingly ineffective. In its sixth edition since 2019, the 600-page report identifies t...| Inter Alia
Athens Naked Truth is a campaign that aims at highlighting how community, solidarity and sisterhood can be the key in creating collective solutions and proposing concrete alternatives to the existing normalisation and institutionalisation of violence. Athens Naked Truth is an installment in a series of actions that are taking place in the context of Super FEM , which promotes equal treatment of all genders and aims to achieve personal and collective empowerment for femininities and...| Inter Alia
Rebloom Festival at Istanbul, 5 – 7 December 2024 How many of your favourite creatives – actors, dancers, composers, directors, authors – escaped oppressive lands before they produced their masterpiece? How many millions before and after them had their identities, unique skills and talents denied or forgotten due to the hardships of displacement or the dehumanising experience of incarceration? This December, our festival in Istanbul was a celebration of these artistic identities; a spac...| Inter Alia
October, for the Positively Different Short Film Festival, marks the month when our volunteers and team members come together for a 2-day training on intersectionality, accessibility and details on the selection process. After a warm-up getting to know each other, the team introduced the concept of intersectionality, which has been at the festival’s epicentre since its inception. PDSFF focuses on the multiple facets of oppression and aspires to promote creative works, cultural networks an...| Inter Alia
Let’s Talk about Degrowth is a series of workshops aiming to ignite thoughtful discussions and raise critical questions about our growth-dependent society, eventually leading to collective actions. We will use interactive activities and informative materials to build a space for collective sharing. Duration: April – November Targeted audience: Timeline: Session 1: Where we are and where we would like to be | 19 April 2024 During our first meeting, we will begin by introducing each oth...| Inter Alia
On September 21 & 22, we invited femininities, queer and trans people who live, work, frequent or have other personal attachments to the neighbourhood of Exarchia, to join us in a counter-cartography workshop, to collectively map Exarchia it as we experience it, through a gendered perspective. What happens when you walk home at night? Do you ever feel unsafe? Who has your back? Those were the questions we had been posing at ourselves and through a questionnaire and two street actions and the ...| Inter Alia
Advocacy training & Femscapes exhibition in Zagreb, Croatia (22 – 23 June 2024) Our Femscapes exhibition (Athens, 7-10 March 2024) ended with a promise to meet again in Zagreb, to work together towards the current struggles that concern us; so it happened! In June, the diverse Super FEM team, with members from Greece, Romania, Croatia, Norway, Germany and North Macedonia, gathered in Zagreb for two days of training on advocacy and collective development of a transnational, pan-European camp...| Inter Alia
Consent is still a silenced topic, suppressed, among others, by institutions’ power of decision over women’s and other identities’ bodies and sexuality. In May 2024, EU institutions agreed on the first-ever law on combating violence against women. However, rape was not included, as national governments did not agee on a common definition of this crime as sex without consent. We are a group of activists and civil society organisations from Greece, Croatia, Norway, Romania, Germany, Ita...| Inter Alia
📆 Save the date! May 30th at Valtetsiou 50-52 from 17:30 to 19:30. The long-awaited European Parliament elections will take place on 8-9 of June. The people we, European citizens, choose as our representatives will have the power to define the future of the EU for the next 5 years. With the far-right on the rise, participating in elections and arriving informed to that day is incredibly important. Migration, rights and freedoms are issues we need to collectively reflect on. Many people w...| Inter Alia
Project Duration January 2023 – December 2024 Summary “Super FEM” is a 24 months project that promotes equal treatment of all genders by exploring innovative and intersectional learning approaches to achieve personal and collective empowerment, skills development and social integration of the beneficiaries. Target Groups Primary: Young femininities carrying intersecting identities that undermine their representation, visibility and free expression in public life. Secondary: Aims & Objec...| Inter Alia
Who has your back? Through an online questionnaire and two street actions (Avdi square, 18/7 and Koletti street, 23/7) we asked the locals about their experiences during nightlife! What happens when you walk back home at night? Who are the people you (don’t) meet? What are the objects you (don’t) come across with? How do the spaces around you look? Which are the things you (don’t) think about, or the sounds you (don’t) hear? How fast do you walk? Do you think about how your body loo...| Inter Alia
I vote for myself | Redefining a common path to 2024 EU elections EU elections are approaching! Next June, all European citizens will vote and choose 705 Members of the European Parliament that will represent EU citizens in the European Union for the next five years. Are we prepared to vote? Is there an alternative way to get ready for such an important date, overcoming individualism and choosing a collective journey to elections? As a Civil Society Organisation, Inter Alia believes in th...| Inter Alia
11 Οργανώσεις και ανεξάρτητα ΜΜΕ υπογράφουμε κοινή ανακοίνωση – καταγγελία. Προχθές το μεσημέρι (8.7.2024), στον δημιουργικό κόμβο Ρομάντσο στο κέντρο της Αθήνας, το Vouliwatch πραγματοποίησε σεμινάριο για δημοσιογράφους και εκπροσώπους της Κοινωνίας των Πολιτών σχετικά με το δι...| Inter Alia
This time, our efforts to promote participatory approaches to planning got inspired by Degrowth, and our activities were designed in the context of our series, Let’s Talk about Degrowth*. Our aim was to motivate participants to design and organise collective socio-spatial actions for degrowth, building methodologically on the Participatory Action Research process used in our project, Youth Pool. The workshops have employed interactive activities and informative materials to create a transf...| Inter Alia
We voted. But what now? Before election day, we were all convinced the far right would have swept up the control of the European Parliament from the hands of the pro-EU, traditional parties. Despite many national far right parties significantly raising their consensus among citizens, it is also true that the traditional parties, represented in the EP by the social-democrats (S&D), conservatives (EPP) and liberals (Renew), still managed to hold their position, although weakened. The centre-rig...| Inter Alia
On solidarity and repression in Germany and beyond | Op-ed by Lorenz Deutsch* It has been almost eight months since the Israeli government launched its retaliatory onslaught on the people of Gaza. In response to Israel’s genocidal violence, people from all around the world, including EU citizens, took to the streets in solidarity with Palestine. In numerous countries, governments reacted with repression and harsh police violence. Attacks on democratic rights have been extensively criticised...| Inter Alia
On the 31st of May, Inter Alia hosted the last event of the one-year series of activities ‘I vote for myself! Redefining a common path towards 2024 EU elections’. a workshop with young MEP candidates from left and progressive parties took place on Inter Alia’s grounds at Valtetsiou street at the heart of Exarchia. For the second time this May, young people had the opportunity to meet left and progressive candidates for the European Parliament, discuss their policy ideas and talk about...| Inter Alia
What about the future? Projections: will the next European Parliament shift to the right? In the past months and years, the majority of EU Member States have lived through a shift to the right. The European discourse on topics like migration and minority rights has changed drastically, allowing anti-democratic and discriminatory positions to flourish. Given this transformation of public opinion, we should take a closer look at the polls for this June’s European elections, particularly to ex...| Inter Alia
We kicked off the degrowth series in Athens, and it was a full house! During our very first onsite meeting, we introduced ourselves by explaining the reasons that brought us together in this seminar. We discussed the climate emergency and the imperative to question our socio-economic systems, as well as the current policies and practices aimed at securing a livable planet. We shared our professional, social, and political experiences and discussed how these experiences have shaped our posit...| Inter Alia
