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ECOWEEK is an independent non-governmental organization (NGO) with international activity. Its mission is to raise public environmental awareness and to promote the princples of sustainability. ECOWEEK activity involve the general public and especially young people, in environmental protection, waste recycling, energy conservation, renewable energy, and 'green' buildings. ECOWEEK was established in Greece in 2005, and today is active in Europe and the Middle East.

ECOWEEK ... habits change ... climate change.

UPCOMING EVENTS:

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ECOWEEK 2012
MIDDLE EAST

Urban Communities & Affordable Living
& Green Design

International
CONFERENCE & WORKSHOPS

For Architects, young Architects,
Designers, Landscape Architects
and graduate students

February 26 - March 2, 2012
 ISRAEL & PALESTINE

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 ECOWEEK 2012
THESSALONIKI, Greece

International
CONFERENCE & WORKSHOPS
Urban Innovation & Green Design

For Architects, young Architects,
Designers, Landscape Architects
and graduate students

April 2-8, 2012
THESSALONIKI, Greece
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ECOWEEK 2012
KRAKOW, Poland

International CONFERENCE

For Architects, young Architects,
Designers, Landscape Architects
and graduate students

May 17-18, 2012
KRAKOW, Poland

More details shortly!
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ECOWEEK 2012
ROME, Italy

International CONFERENCE

For Architects, young Architects,
Designers, Landscape Architects
and graduate students

September 24-30, 2012
ROME, Italy

More details shortly!
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PAST EVENTS:

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ECOWEEK 2011
Urban Communities & Green Architecture

International
CONFERENCE & WORKSHOPS

For Architects, young Architects,
Designers, Landscape Architects
and graduate students

December 12-18, 2011
 ATHENS, Greece
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ECOWEEK 2011
Urban Communities & Green Architecture

International
CONFERENCE & WORKSHOPS

For Architects, young Architects,
Designers, Landscape Architects
and graduate students

September 12-18, 2011
 MILANO, Italy

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ECOWEEK 2011
Urban Communities & Green Architecture

International
CONFERENCE & WORKSHOPS

For Architects, young Architects,
Designers, Landscape Architects
and graduate students

March 28 - April 3, 2011
 Thessaloniki, Greece

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ECOWEEK 2010
Green Architecture :: Community :: Sustainability

Two-day International
WORKSHOP in IPCRI Conference
Assignment:
The new 'green' ICPRI Center
Tantur, East Jerusalem

For Architects, young Architects
and students of Architecture

October 22 - 23, 2010
 Talita Kumi Beit Jala, West Bank

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ECOWEEK 2010
YOUNG ARCHITECTS FORUM
in the Middle East
Green Architecture :: Community :: Sustainability

International
CONFERENCE & WORKSHOPS

For Architects, young Architects
and students of Architecture

July 25 - August 1, 2010
 Israel & West Bank

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ECOWEEK 2010
Ecology + Community + Architecture

International
CONFERENCE & WORKSHOPS

For Architects, young Architects
and students of Architecture

March 13-20, 2010
 Athens, GREECE

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ECOWEEK 2009:
Empowering Young Architects
Ecology + Leadership + Architecture

International
CONFERENCE & WORKSHOPS

For Architects, young Architects
and students of Architecture

March 31 - April 6, 2009
Athens

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ECOWEEK 2008:
Ecology + Environment + Architecture

International
CONFERENCE & WORKSHOPS

For Architects, young Architects
and students of Architecture

Athens

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ECOWEEK 2007:

Athens
Aegina
Thessaloniki
Patras

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ECOWEEK 2006:

Aegina

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ECOWEEK 2005:

Aegina

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ECOWEEK in exhibition BUILDING GREEN in Athens
Join us at the International exhibition BUILDING GREEN in Athens, Greece, in December 2-5, 2011 at EXPO Athens, Anthousa, related to 'green' buildings at the center of development. More


ECOWEEK 2012 in the MIDDLE EAST! EARLY BIRD Registration is OPEN!
 Greek-international NGO ECOWEEK brings together again - this time in the Middle East (Israel and West Bank in Palestine) - young and established professionals and students for a week of 'green' buildings, urban interventions and affordable housing. EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION is open. More


ECOWEEK in exhibition NRG 2011 in Athens THE EXHIBITION WAS CANCELED
Join us at the 1st International exhibition NRG 2011 that will take place in MEC in Athens, Greece, in November 17-20, 2011, related to the energy upgrade of buildings with technologies and systems for the production and conservation of energy. More details will be posted shortly.

ECOWEEK 2011 IN MILANO: Completed successfully!
 Greek-international NGO ECOWEEK brought together, this time in Milano, nearly 200 young and established professionals - architects, designers, landscape architects and engineers from more than 10 countries - including Italy, Greece, Denmark, Germany, Russia, Romania, Poland, Serbia, USA and China - for a cultural, ecological, and architectural network happening. For the first time in Italy! ECOWEEK 2011 in Milano took place in September 12-18, and the theme was 'Urban Communities and 'Green' Architecture', involving professionals from Italy, Denmark and Greece who led one-week intense 'green' design workshops on Urban sustainability, social sustainability, new building sustainable design, existing building sustainable design, and the merging of 'green' Architecture and design.

ECOWEEK 2011 program in Milano included keynote lecture by award winning French architect Francoise-Helene Jourda, lectures by architect Marco Visconti, ARUP, Green Building Council Italia, Mario Cucinella Architects, London Olympics 2012, Italia Nostra, Integrated Environmental Solutions, Cite de l'Architecture, Architetti Senza Frontiere, Design for All Italia, Telefono Azzurro, Geologos Sin Fronteras Italia, and others. ECOWEEK 2011 was hosted by the Politecnico di Milano Bovisa, Camera del Lavoro Metropolitana Milano, Fondazione Giangacomo Feltrinelli, Casa dell' Energia, and was made possible thanks to ECOWEEK cooperation with the Ordine degli Architetti , the British Council, Lycee Stendhal, Embassy of Sweden, and media partners CASABELLA, DETAIL, ECOLOGIK, CSRWire and others. Read more

ECOWEEK 2011 IN ATHENS. EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION IS OPEN! ÅARLY BIRD REGISTRATION EXTENDED TILL SEPTEMBER 30, 2011!
 After Thessaloniki and Milano, the 8th ECOWEEK takes place again this year in Athens. ECOWEEK 2011 Urban Communities & Green Architecture international conference and 'green' design workshops will take place in Athens in DECEMBER 12-18, 2011. Internationally acclaimed speakers, ecological architecture, landscape architecture, 'green' urban interventions and design workshops, films, exhibition, site visits, networking, social entrepreneurship and more! Open to young professionals and students of Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Design and Engineering for a week of ecological design, architecture, landscape architecture, innovation and intervention in Athens, Greece.
Under the auspices of the Hellenic Ministry of Environment, Energy and Climate Change. EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION is open. Places are limited. For registration click here

ECOWEEK & AGAINST ALL ODDS PROJECT
 ECOWEEK welcomes the cooperation with AAO PROJECT in Athens, Greece June 8 - July 31, 2011.

Following on the first international Conference of the ÁÁÏ project: Ethics / Aesthetics, held at the Athens School of Fine Arts, the six Academic Workshops currently under way and Athens Here and Now with interactive works in downtown Athens, the ÁÁÏ project organizes a second international Conference, a main exhibition and two parallel events at the Pireos St Annex of the Benaki Museum. The first conference explored ethics and aesthetics as a broader platform in terms of its theoretical foundation and the spatial translations of this relationship in the new spatial and curatorial practices, in artworks and in architectural, urban and topological applications. The second Conference, to be held on June 6 & 7, 2011 at the amphitheater of the Benaki Museum, Pireos St Annex, will present the projects of the participants in the main exhibition, the inventive strategies they adopted and their works' media and objectives in an attempt to assess today's pressing social and ecological needs and the ways they are addressed.

The main exhibition of the ÁÁÏ project: Ethics / Aesthetics will be held at the Benaki Museum, Pireos St Annex from June 8 to July 31, 2011. The exhibition is structured to explore the impact of the new participatory processes on the field of spatial practices and the points of convergence and differentiation between aesthetic form and ideological background with regard to self-reference and identity. More details.

 New at ECOWEEK!

The Green House by ECOWEEK is the reference and meeting point for innovation and ecology, by NGO ECOWEEK in Athens, Greece, to promote innovation, cooperation, synergy, 'green' entrepreneurship, 'green' products and technologies, and will be dealing with integrated (sustainable) development, energy conservation and renewable energy, ecological building, urban planning and sustainable communities, recycling and composting, landscape architecture and permaculture, organic food and healthy eating, transportation and communication, and more. The GREENHOUSE will start its activity and open its doors in December 2011. For more details (in Greek) click here . For more information contact us

 New at ECOWEEK!

ECOWEEK.net is the place for young professionals to meet. The ECOWEEK family is growing every year. ECOWEEK counts more than 1000 participants, from more than 20 countries from around the world. ECOWEEK.NET is the place to network, to create international professional partnerships, to promote your work and ideas, to communicate with ECOWEEK peers, to network with the ECOWEEK distinguished professionals, to learn more about 'green' design, to register early and save to ECOWEEK workshops around the world, to get discounts in selective online stores, and more! ECOWEEK.NET is the international platform for young professionals. To join click here

Google SketchUp at ECOWEEK 2011 in Milano!

Google SketchUp, the free 3-d software, now with new environmental plug-in features, will be taught at a 3-hour free session on Sunday September 11, 2011, by Google Software Engineer Simone Nicolo, at ECOWEEK 2011 in Milano, Italy. Registration required. For more information, click here


ECOWEEK at ÅCOLIFE at TECHNOPOLIS, Athens. Join us on Saturday 28/5 at 12:00 for a presentation on ECOWEEK, by ECOWEEK Chairman architect E. Messinas.

ECOLIFE - 6th Fair Ecolife returns to "Technopolis" in Athens 27-30 May, 2010 and is continuing to stay on the cutting edge of Green Development. Ecolife, the first trade fair for organic and environmentally-friendly products aims to create new business and networking opportunities for participating companies and organizations. For more information, click here

Join ECOWEEK in Athens 27/5 at Athens Direct / ECOWEEK Lounge in Athens.
Join us on Friday May 27 at 6pm at the Athens Direct / ECOWEEK Lounge on Ermou 44, 5 floor for a presentation by architect E. Messinas, ECOWEEK founder and Chairman, on the ECOWEEK 2011 program in Thessaloniki and the planned program in Milano, Italy. Also about 'green' buildings. Places limted. For reservations please call: 210-3318570-2.

Visit ECOWEEK at the 2nd Exhibition "Exoikonomo EXPO 2 & Building the Future" that will take place on May 9-11, 2011, at the Syntagma Metro Multi-purpose Hall. Free Admission.

ECOWEEK 2011 Urban Communities & Green Architecture - Conference & Workshops in Milano, ITALY! September 12-18, 2011
 EARLY BIRD Registration is open for ECOWEEK 2011 in Milano, Italy! In collaboration with the Politecnico di Milano, ECOWEEK is planning one more exciting and educating week on 'green' Architecture, sustainable design, and urban communities, for young and established architects, landscape architects, designers and graduate students from Italy, Greece, Europe, the Middle East and other countries. Keynote speaker: Award-winning French architect Francoise-Helene Jourda. Read more details: click here

ECOWEEK 2011 Urban Communities & Green Architecture - Successfully completed!
 ECOWEEK 2011 was completed on April 3, 2011. It took place for the first time in Thessaloniki, Greece, with more than 330 registered participants, from 16 countries from Europe, the Balkans, the Middle East, the Far East, and the Americas, and 37 design workshops. Award-winning keynote speakers: architect Diebedo Francis Kere - in cooperation with the Goethe Institute Thessaloniki, landscape architect George Hargreaves in cooperation with the British Council, and architect Louis Becker of Henning Larsen Architects in Denmark - in cooperation with the Royal Danish Embassy. ECOWEEK 2011 included thematic lectures by experts from ARUP, MOTT MACDONALD FULCRUM and BIOREGIONAL CONSULTING, and interdisciplinary workshops led by architects, landscape architects and engineers and hosted in their offices, site visits and more! Conference website: click here



Join ECOWEEK presentation titled ECCO ECOWEEK in the sustainable Fuori Salone itinerary on Tuesday, April 12, 2011 from 6pm at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile - which celebrates this year its 50th anniversary- in Milano, Italy. ECOWEEK will be hosted by Monostudio in Milano. Monostudio holistically develops projects from the conceptual stage of Architecture while integrating interiors, furniture, and landscape. For 35 years, its practice has been focused on remodel, restoration and reuse transformation of old landmarks - both for private and public clients. Enzo Evaso founded the original studio in Valenza, Piedmont region, Italy in 1974. Luca Guglieri and Elisa Evaso moved the studio to Milano, as main office, in 2005 with a refreshed philosophy of innovation as a way to celebrate and respect the rigorous origins and history of each building. Monostudio respecting the future, is committed to sustainable and environmental solutions in design and construction. With a unique and extended team of specialists, restoration artists, and crafts people, Monostudio has developed numerous projects. See more at www.monostudiomilano.com. Date of the event: 12/4/2011 at 18:00-22:00. Cocktail: 12/4/2011 at 18:00-22:00. Location address: Monostudio, Via Varese 8, Milano.

ECOWEEK & PIG Business
 ECOWEEK welcomes the new film 'PIG BUSINESS' about where our food comes from and how we treat animals and our food. Changing habits really starts from what we eat, where it comes from and what are the environmental implications from our decision on our daily menu. Do not miss the screening of this important film in Greece and abroad. ECOWEEK is Associate in support of the film and event 'Pig Business: The Hidden Cost of Factory Farming - Time for Change" (1/11) - View the trailer

> Next screening: EU Parliament, Brussels, 9th February 2011 read more

> ECOWEEK 2011 screening: Details will be posted shortly.




 ECOWEEK & de|zine
ECOWEEK welcomes a new collaboration with de|zine magazine starting in 2011. de|zine is a new publication dedicated to modern Architecture, innovative Design and Art in all its creative expressions. Having a common starting point to the enhancement and promotion of issues of ecological interest in the fields of design practice, but to encourage social debate around issues of ecology and sustainable urban development, de|zine assists in the actions and initiatives by ECOWEEK, promoting - through its pages and through the internet platform (www.dezine.gr) - the activity in the field and by being an active participant in fostering a fruitful dialogue in the field of ecology and green economics. The ultimate goal of this cooperation is to inform and raise awareness, particularly young people around environmental protection and sustainable integrated development, the emergence of architects, designers and ideas mentioned in bioclimatic design, landscape architecture and promote ecological building in Greece, and to familiarize young scientists, professionals and the public with the philosophy and developments in sustainable design.



Thank you for joining ECOWEEK on SUNDAY DECEMBER 12, 2010 at 14:30-15:30 at the presentation on 'Sustainable Communities & Green Buildings' by Dr. E. Messinas, Founder and Chairman of ECOWEEK and Architect and Environmental Consultant at the Building Green Expo. Expo Athens, Anthousa, Greece.

ECOWEEK & GOETHE INSTITUT Thessaloniki
 Thank you fo joining ECOWEEK on FRIDAY DECEMBER 10, 2010 at 16:30 at a lecture on 'Sustainable Communities & Green Buildings' by Dr. E. Messinas, Founder and Chairman of ECOWEEK and Architect and Environmental Consultant, at the conference "The Power of Creativity" at Goethe Institut Thessaloniki.
ECOWEEK & AUTH
 ECOWEEK presented the international conference 'ECOWEEK 2011: Urban Communities & Green Buildings' on Tuesday November 23, 2010, at 18:30 at the auditorium Al. Tsioumis, at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. Speaker: O. Datsi, ECOWEEK associate and landscape architect. For the poster: click here For future ECOWEEK presentations: click here

ECOWEEK & AKTO
 ECOWEEK welcomes the cooperation with AKTO (the Athenian Artistic and Technological Group) a pioneering organisation in Greece, developing departments in Industrial & Product Design and Photography and to introduce high technologies in the area of arts, towards common activity for the advancement of sustainable design and ecological building in Greece. More details will be posted shortly. Thank you foR joining ECOWEEK on FRIDAY DECEMBER 10, 2010 at 14:00 at a lecture on 'Sustainable Design, Sustainable Communities & Green Buildings' by Dr. E. Messinas, Founder and Chairman of ECOWEEK and Architect and Environmental Consultant, for the students of AKTO Thessaloniki.

 ECOWEEK & EIA
 ECOWEEK welcomes the cooperation with EIA (the Hellenic Institute of Architecture) towards common activity to promote Greek architects and 'Green' Architecture in Greece. The first activity is scheduled to take place in the fall 2010. More details will be posted shortly.

Meet ECOWEEK in Athens 4/6
 Thank you for joining us on Friday June 4 at the ECOWEEK / Athens Direct Lounge. At the presentation architect E. Messinas, ECOWEEK founder and Chairman, gave a short presentation of the ECOWEEK 2010 program in the Middle East, the activity of ECOWEEK, and spoke extensively about 'green' buildings: how to make a new house 'green' but also how to make a 'green' retrofit to an existing house. More meetings are in the planning by ECOWEEK and the Athens Direct Club. More will be posted shortly. For information: 210-3318570-2.

 ECOWEEK & BRUNO ZEVI Foundation
 ECOWEEK started a collaboration with the BRUNO ZEVI FOUNDATION in Rome within the framework of a common effort to educate young architects and architecture students in Frugal and Ecological Architecture, and in an effort to bring together students of different religions, cultures and backgrounds, towards intercultural exchange and cooperation in 'green' community projects in the Middle East. The ECOWEEK 2010 Young Architects Forum in the Middle East to take place in July 25 - August 1, 2010 is the first program that ECOWEEK and the Bruno Zevi Foundation are collaborating.


ECOWEEK & EUNIC: STUDENT ARCHITECTURAL COMPETITION OF IDEAS theme: Lanscape, Environment and Architecture: Designing the Park for Environmental Awareness "A. Tritsis", Ilion, Attica
ECOWEEK starts a collaboration with EUNIC - the European Union of Cultural Institutes - the British Council, the Goethe Institute and the Institut Francais d'Athenes, towards a graduate student competition to re-design the urban Park for Environmental Awareness "A. Tritsis" in Athens. The planning and implementation of the competition is a collaboration between the three EUNIC members, namely the British Council, the Goethe Institute and the Institut Francais d'Athenes, together with the Ornithological Society, the Architecture School of the National Technical University of Athens, and ECOWEEK. A project to promote sustainable design, interdisciplinary design, and the merging of urban space with nature.

Press Conference: Wednesday, January 27, at 13:00-15:00 at the Technical Chamber of Greece at 4 Nikis str, 8 floor, Athens. Invitation | photos: 1 | 2
More details at www.newgreenpark.gr, or contact ecoweek[at]ecoweek.org

ECOWEEK & CARTECO
 ECOWEEK started a collaboration with CARTECO, a leading company in architectural solutions and materials of high quality in Greece; this collaboration will focus in the implementation of passive solar architecture and ecological building by young architects and graduate students of Architecture. CARTECO will collaborate and support the international conference and workshops ECOWEEK 2010: Ecology + Community + Architecture scheduled to take place in March 2010 in Athens, Greece.
More details will be posted in the ECOWEEK 2010 conference web page.


ECOWEEK & International Society for Arcadia

In May 2009 ECOWEEK started a collaboration program with the International Society for Arcadia - International Society for the Study and the Utilization of the Arcadian World Legacy. This collaboration will focus on programs for environmental awareness, good practice, exchange of know-how and educational programs on environmental and cultural awareness. More information will be announced shortly.

ECOWEEK & Climate Thinkers Blog: Invited by the Royal Danish Embassy in Athens, ECOWEEK Chairman E. Messinas contributed the article "Who Needs Green Architecture" to the Climate Thinkers Blog, the blog for the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December 2009. - Read more




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