EXPERT: Aravella Salonikidou

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An expert on initiatives directed towards the care for the environment was included in the group of visitors during the Erasmus+ mobility hosted in Ferrol in February 2025. She is the president of the association COSMUS DIY Thessaloniki and her name is Aravella Salonikidou. 

 

 

A group of students from IES Canido involved in a previous Erasmus+ Project had had the opportunity to meet and interview her in Thessaloniki in May 2022. You can see them in the photograph. We had learnt a lot from her and put into practice some of her suggestions and, therefore, decided to invite her to Ferrol so that she shared her knowledge with a larger audience (more than 70 people in total) from several countries: Estonia, Poland, Sweden, Italy and Spain, multiplying its impact and results. 

Here is a short video of some of the workshops she carried out as well as an introduction to thank her for her ideas by three students who had taken part in the "growing loofah activity". CLICK HERE to see! 

Thanks, Aravella, It was a pleasure having you with us!

Useful LINKS if you want to learn more:

http://www.aravella.gr/?page_id=2655&lang=en (information about Aravella's curriculum)

https://www.cosmus.org/english (COSMUS DIY)

Series of videos of a previous interview carried out with Aravella by a group of students and teachers from IES Canido in May 2022, for the project "Upcycling Lives".

https://youtu.be/309yiBux6EI

https://youtu.be/4SedaXCg1HE

https://youtu.be/M3tEbHUCHVQ

https://youtu.be/NHOrM9KcP78

https://youtu.be/dczYWcRtOPs

 


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