The Sporades Islands Preservation Foundation

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Welcome

The Sporades Islands Preservation Foundation (SIPF) invites you to these idyllic Aegean islands for a learning vacation with hands-on experience to preserve and reconnect our community and yours with sustainable life practices. With the sparkling Aegean Sea and beautiful Sporades Islands as a major backdrop, you can celebrate the traditional Greek life with feasts, tours and cultural events while working on local sustainability projects. Our team of experienced educators, craftsmen and artisans will work to meet the needs of your group, organisation or institution. You are sure to return home relaxed, renewed and ready to develop sustainable life practices in your community.

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Our Vision

The Vision for the SIPF is to be a catalyst in assisting the Island’s populace to rediscover traditional occupations as well as emerging occupations, and explore technical and scientific advancements which can improve living and economic conditions. 
Plums being dried using traditional, sustainable methods
Traditional Recipe Demonstration at The Sporades Centre for Sustainable Life
The Center will promote and support activities that enhance the cultural and spiritual traditions of the island. Of utmost importance is the protection and conservation of the fragile environment and ecosystems of the islands; and to decrease the exodus from the Islands of those seeking employment elsewhere.

Our Mission

The Mission for the SIPF is to provide a living, active, learning laboratory both within and outside the Sporades Islands Center for Sustainable Life (SICSL) for all ages. This will be achieved through continuing education, cooperative learning and practices, experiential and practical activities, and ongoing projects. Both local expertise and outside professional and academic assistance will be utilized.

Sporades Center for Sustainable Life

Through education and cooperative learning, the Sporades Islands Preservation Foundation fosters the rediscovery of sustainable practices, traditional and progressive.

The Center (located in the town of Glossa, Skopelos Island) promotes the vitality of the Sporades islands’ fragile environment, agriculture, nautical pursuits, and traditional interdependent occupations and skills.

Glossa, Skopelos

Our Goals

Our Goals are to:

  • Introduce new ways of using energy to conserve both natural and economic resources through projects with school children and their families
  • Educate the workforce and schoolchildren regarding current and emerging practices of traditional agriculture through a land lab program
  • Assist the community to expand current markets and create new profit markets through exploration of  commercial ventures via product testing, packaging and marketing
  • Enhance existing educational, cultural, and spiritual opportunities for the island’s residents through support activities such as  ‘lending’ use of the Center facilities and promotion of activities with the religious leaders of the islands
  • Promote ‘soft tourism’ through shared ventures, projects, and volunteerism  with the Sporades Islands Pathways program
StafyloFest 2017

Who We Are

The Sporades Islands Preservation Foundation (SIPF) is a non-profit organization which operates locally and internationally from its base in Glossa Skopelos, Greece. Directed by the visionary and founder, Tom Amygdalitsis, our specialists of trades, crafts and academia are working passionately for the protection of the environment and for sustainable development of local traditions and progressive practices.

Tom Amygdalitsis ( Founder)

As a non-governmental organisation (NGO), The SIPF relies on the hard work and support of our volunteers. Through their efforts and contributions we have been able to begin to make our goals and vision a reality on Skopelos Island.

Tom Amygdalitsis at the NOSTOS EXPO 2017
NEW FREE E-BOOK!
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Professor Apostolos D. Panagiotou has very kindly donated his book "Production and Use of Energy" to the SIPF and users of this site are welcome to download and enjoy it for free. It contains valuable information about renewable energy sources and includes many experiments you can try at home!

Check our Catalogue of Educational, Fun and Enhancing Programs

Study Abroard With SIPF

For more images and videos from our projects, please view our Media Gallery

What We Do

We develop hands-on training programs on techniques of traditional occupations related to land, sea and the natural environment.
These programs are carried out in cooperation with local and international educational institutions, with community partners and specialized craftsmen.

We organize volunteer teams to carry out activities that protect and promote the natural environment.
We offer seminars on environmental topics to raise community awareness and to generate technical knowledge about renewable sources of energy and organic land cultivation.
We hold festive celebrations to increase the participatory spirit and strengthen the social in the community.
Our facilities are available for all kinds of uplifting spiritual and cultural events which contribute to the quality of everyday life.

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