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Areas of expertise & Fields of activity:	Social Development: Employment Indigenous issues Information and Communications Technologies Poverty Social policy Youth Sustainable Development: Agriculture Climate change Education Energy Forests Health International cooperation for an enabling environment Partnerships Poverty Protecting and managing the natural resources Waste Management
Geographic scope:	International
Country of activity:	Greece United States of America
Millennium Development Goals:	Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger Achieve universal primary education Promote gender equality and empower women Improve maternal health Ensure environmental sustainability Develop global partnership for development
Mission statement:	To succeed in our goals, our strategy is to pursue a range of activities using a variety of methods while placing the highest possible degree of creativity and innovation. In KEAN we believe that we can only be effective by focusing on more than one type of activity and thematic field. Moreover, we understood early on that each geographical area and each different youth-group, has its own priorities and needs to which, we try to respond. As such our recent activities include the organization of a Mediterranean conference on the “Environment and New technologies”, the production of a multi-tasking table-game called “Planetbook” which raises awareness on ecological issues as well as promoting the activities of environmental NGOs, the issuing of a monthly newspaper devoted to environmental and cultural questions that concern local societies and the organization of several competitions for youth and activities such as reforestation, visits in natural sites and NGO networking events. Since our establishment, we have also been trying to broaden our geographical reach outside our headquarters in Athens, and when possible, outside Greece. That is why, today, we have local active offices in eight other areas of Greece and we have organized several seminars and actions with participants from Greece and Europe. To reach its goals KEAN has established partnerships with many similar international societies and clubs that are inspired by the same values and goals. However, today we wish to become even more active in cooperation with organizations in our immediate neighborhood. That is countries from the region of the Mediterranean and the Balkans. We aim to cooperate with organizations with an established record of activities, whether these are large or smaller ones. Moreover, we are open at cooperating with local authorities – which we have done so in several instances in the past – in order to increase the level of penetration to local audiences.
Year established:	2004
Year of registration:	2005
Organizational structure:	The Society is Managed by a Board of Directors (B.D.) consisting of five (5) members comprised of the President, Vice-President, General Secretary, Treasurer and one member who along with the equal numbering replacement members are elected by the General Meeting by secret ballot for a three-year term.
Number and type of members:	100
Affiliation with NGO networks:	United Nations DPI NGO, Anna Lindh Foundation national network
Funding structure:	Membership fees or dues Fees for education and training services Donations and grants from domestic sources Foreign and international grants

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