Mataroa

Mataroa is a purpose driven and vibrant Greek Non-Profit Company founded in 2015 in Kalamata, with the mission to reshape the business and educational landscape in the modern urban centers of the Greek region. Places special emphasis on empowering the new generation, operating on principles of inclusion and support. Our vision is to create a society where education, technology, innovation and environmental awareness are not just ideals but accessible realities for all. Indicative Programmes - UniStart Hubs (2024-Present): Strategic partner of UniStart Hubs, a comprehensive network of innovation and entrepreneurship support structures that fosters knowledge-intensive entrepreneurship, innovation, and technology transfer across the University of the Peloponnese and the Region of Peloponnese. - EMIMSEB - Euro-Mediterranean Impact Makers: Social Enterprise Bootcamp (2024–2025): An Erasmus+ transnational project promoting social entrepreneurship across the Mediterranean through bootcamps, workshops, and international collaboration, empowering young social entrepreneurs and fostering social innovation. - Tech4Disabilities (2024): An interactive educational programme on inclusive design through 3D printing, aiming to support the inclusion of people with disabilities by creating customised assistive objects, implemented by Mataroa in collaboration with the Technical University of Crete and supported by the U.S. Embassy in Athens. - Digital Skills through Game Design (2024): An Erasmus+ Youth Exchange programme that helped young people from Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Romania, and Greece develop digital skills through game design, while promoting diversity, inclusion, teamwork, and intercultural collaboration. - CodeGirls (2015 - 2024): An interactive programming education programme for girls aged 10–16, implemented with the support of the U.S. Embassy in Athens. - Coding Bees (2022): An interactive technology education programme for adult women and girls aged 10–16, supported by Google.org. - Documentation & Promotion of 19th and 20th Century Buildings in Kalamata (2018 - 2019): A systematic documentation of buildings constructed between 1830 and 1955, implemented in collaboration with Monumenta. - OpenTourism Kalamata (2015 - 2016): A series of open thematic meetings with tourism professionals. - Cognitive Behavioural Drama (2017): A group psycho-educational programme, specifically designed for children with low self-esteem, high-functioning autism (HFA), and Asperger syndrome, supported by the George and Victoria Karelia Foundation. - Conference “Child and Sport” (2018): An open conference featuring numerous distinguished athletes and experts from the fields of sport and education.