Epanekkinisis

Updated: 14/04/2018

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Greece
Epanekkinisis, which stands for “restart” in Greek, is a non-profit activity aiming to collect donations and to provide students in Greece with used laptops as well as facilitate extracurricular education in computer technology.

Epanekkinisis, which stands for “restart” in Greek, is a crowdsourcing non-profit activity aiming to collect donations and to provide to all students in Greece with a used refurbished laptop as well as facilitate extracurricular education in computer technology giving a chance to students to understand the true benefits of computing and the Internet beyond social media, games and watching videos online.

Our vision is to promote innovation by helping talented young students to realise their potential, as well as to enable university graduates to understand how computers are repaired and the public to be effectively involved with social recucling of IT equipment based activities.

Objectives
 Give to companies and individuals a chanel to donate old laptops and computers for socialy responsible reusage.
 Enpower graduates to develop educational software for used laptops.
 Provide certified training to participating volunteers, enabling them to repair the donated laptop computers to professional standards.
 Donate laptop computers to students and teachers in primary and secondary schools in Greece.
 Facilitate extracurricular education in computer technology by providing appropriate information and host competitions in order to identify talented students.

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