Fail #NOT events and informational events about the Incubator and Accelerator programs
16 July 2019: Eugenia Thanou, Director of Médecins du Monde Greece and Thodoris Georgakopoulos, Director of DiaNEOsis Content, joined forces at HIGGS and shared all their secrets about projects that have failed. More specifically, they talked about the difficult moments in their professional career and gave advice on how to deal with a possible failure…
23 January 2019 – Two NPO experts, Gerasimos Kouvaras, Country Director, ActionAid Hellas, and Sotiris Petropoulos, HIGGS Director shared with us their secrets about failed projects, the difficult moments in their career and the unique lessons, tools, and methodologies. 🔸 Gerasimos Kouvaras: Country Director of ActionAid Hellas since 2007. Gerasimos has been involved with studying,…
28 February 2018 – We launched our new “Fail #NOT” events with Greenpeace Greece. Nikos Charalampidis, Executive Director, Greenpeace Greece, spoke about the organization’s projects focusing on examples of “failure” and how they have turned into “lessons”. More specifically, the speaker presented the reasons that led to the failure, as well as the ways the…
15-16 May 2017 – On the occasion of the 5th cycle of the Accelerator program, we held meetings with 20 representatives of Nonprofit Organizations in 4 cities (Preveza, Arta, Igoumenitsa and Ioannina). Our goal was to inform organizations about HIGGS services and programs and mainly about Accelerator program, but also learn more about their own work…
Small or medium-sized Nonprofit Organizations with a maximum number of 40 permanent and full-time employees can apply for the 5th Accelerator program until June 14, 2017. Furthermore, during HIGGS open days from 31st March until 7th June you will have the chance to meet the HIGGS team, to learn more about Accelerator program and our…
23-25 January 2017 – On the occasion of the 4th Accelerator Cycle, we held an informational event for HIGGS’s program and services in Komotini, at “PERPATO” – Association for people with kinetic disabilities and friends. The 18 representatives of the 13 organizations that participated in the event had the opportunity to get informed about the services…
12 September 2016 – On the occasion of the start of the submission period for participation in the 3rd cycle of the Accelerator program, we held an information event for Nonprofit Organizations in southern Greece, at the Polyedro bookstore in Patras. The purpose of the event, which was attended by 17 representatives from 10 organizations,…
We organized our Inaugural Accelerator Workshop on January 28th 2016 in Thessaloniki, at Manolis Anagnostakis Hall, hosted by the Municipality of Thessaloniki. The response of 25 Nonprofit Organizations to our first call and our interaction during the workshop encouraged us to keep moving forward with this new endeavor.
Our first Accelerator Workshop in Athens was held on February 1st 2016, at the multi-event loft space “EVDOMOS”, which was attended by 63 persons from 47 Nonprofit Organizations, associations, organizations and institutions. We were pleased to receive positive comments after the end of the presentation and the shared view of the gap that HIGGS comes…
We, at HIGGS, have as a mandate to help those who help! Our project aims at empowering 14 non-profit organizations in Greece through state-of-the-art tailor-made educational programs and counseling provided by our highly experienced team free of charge!
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