Dr. Athina Avagianou is a Post-Doctoral Researcher affiliated with the Department of Geography at the University of the Aegean (Greece). She has a diploma in Architecture, a Master’s degree in Geography and Applied Geo-Informatics and a PhD in Geography. Her research interests focus on youth disengagement, through the theoretical framework of youthspaces of work, and the work-related precariousness found in diverse economies, namely social economy and sharing economy via digital platforms. She has studied youth unemployment and inactivity and these two types of diverse economies in the EU South in the framework of the YOUTHShare Project ‘A Place for Youth in Mediterranean EEA. Resilient and Sharing Economies for NEETs’, funded by the EEA and Norway Grants Fund for Youth Employment (www.youthshare-project.org). In the ReWorkAegean Project ‘A hub for the diffusion of the social economy for the employment of young people Not in Employment, Education or Training (NEET) and the use of the building stock with Pilot implementation in the North Aegean’ (rework.aegean.gr), funded by the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (HFRI), Athina Avagianou studies the feasibility of a hub that brings together young NEETs (Greek and migrants), with the Social Economy practices and the alternative utilization of empty building stock. This hub aims to contribute to the social integration of marginalized people through employment and housing alternatives. For some of these projects she has received funding from the EEA and Norway Grants Fund for Youth Employment, from DAAD Research Grants, for a short-term research activity in Germany, and from ESPON for her research work under the project of “Dissemination of ESPON Results among the Scientific Community”. She has presented the outputs of her research activity in scientific conferences, and some of the research findings have been published in the form of studies, transnational reports and scientific papers.
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