The Hellenic Foundation of Culture announces the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding with Special Olympics Hellas, recognizing their multi-year work in the field of continuous support for people with intellectual disabilities and appreciating the importance, scope and quality of their actions.
With a common focus on strengthening the social inclusion of people with intellectual disabilities, supporting their families and raising awareness among the educational community, the Memorandum of Understanding aims, inter alia, to:
- Development of joint accession actions, definition of mixed sports or cultural action at the Hellenic Foundation of Culture.
- Strengthening volunteering with the participation of citizens of the Municipality of Psychikos-Philotheis in the joint events.
- Organisation of joint acceptance and coexistence events.
- Disposal of facilities of the Hellenic Foundation of Culture for joint events, hosting seminars, exhibitions, student accession activities.
- Develop programs and find sponsorships to support them.
- Cooperation at scientific and cultural level, e.g. research work on volunteering, disability and education.
- Design of joint programmes at international level with the involvement of international organisations.
- Definition of annual thematic priorities, such as education and social inclusion.
With the signing of the Memorandum of Cooperation, the Hellenic Foundation of Culture is certified as a Valuable Partner of Special Olympics in the framework of the Educational Program "We Play Together. We learn together."