Open call 1
Title: Training Course “ImpactRise: Youth Empowerment
Through Volunteering”
Dates: December 7 -14, 2025 (Including Travel Days)
Place: Berlin, Germany
Expected number of participants from Luxembourg: 4 participants without age limit
Travel cost limit for the participants from Luxembourg: 309 Euro
Organized by: Bridging Europe E.V.
The training course aims to inspire and empower youth to engage in volunteer activities, emphasizing the importance of volunteering for personal skill development and job opportunities. Six organizations from the EU are collaborating to address the challenges of unrecognized volunteer efforts and low participation among youth from disadvantaged backgrounds. Through innovative approaches, we seek to make volunteering more inclusive and diverse, promoting active citizenship and social responsibility among young people. Our training course focuses on enhancing the capacity of youth organizations and stakeholders, aligning with Erasmus+ priorities to foster youth participation and make a positive impact in communities, both rural and urban.
Objectives
- Collaborate with project partners to conceptualize their approaches to volunteering in their work context.
- Enhance individual and organizational competencies in planning, implementing, mentoring, and evaluating local and international volunteering projects.
- Develop organizational solutions for the inclusion of young people in volunteering projects, especially – from less privileged backgrounds. 4. Establish an organizational schedule and strategy for essential moves in volunteering projects.
- Enhance the abilities of youth-based non-governmental organizations and stakeholders involved in educational and social activities.
- Promote active citizenship and youth participation at the local level.
- Foster a sense of social responsibility among young volunteers.
- Make a positive impact in both rural and urban communities through volunteering initiatives.
TARGET GROUP
For the participants’ selection, the following criteria will be taken into consideration:
- Mix of existing and experienced youth workers, as well as those who are new or newish to topics such as
- Empowering Youth Workers for Gender Equality and Mental Health Awareness.
- Ready to actively promote sustainable entrepreneurial initiatives among young people. Demonstration
- of social sensibilities (socially active youth workers/volunteers with a role in local communities and interested in promoting what learnt once coming back in their country).
- Ready to actively participate in the whole project (preparation, training course and follow-up).
- Ready to share personal intercultural stereotypes and experiences and analyse them from different perspectives.
- Experienced or interested in working with Erasmus+ programme.
There will be three main meals a day – breakfast, lunch & dinner.
Open call 2
Title: Training Course “Empowering Youth Workers for Refugee Support and Employability Skills Development”
Dates: December 13 – 20, 2025 (Including Travel Days)
Place: Berlin, Germany
Expected number of participants from Luxembourg: 4 participants without age limit
Travel cost limit for the participants from Luxembourg: 275 Euro
Organized by: COPERNICUS BERLIN E.V.
- OBJECTIVES
Our training course is for youth workers, focusing on refugee support and employability skills development. This program aims to equip youth workers with the essential skills and knowledge to support refugees in their integration process and enhance their employability prospects.
Objectives - Support Refugee Integration: Deepen participants’ understanding of the challenges faced by refugees and effective strategies to support their integration.
- Enhance Employability Skills: Provide youth workers with tools and methods to improve the employability skills of refugees.
- Develop Competencies: Equip youth workers with the skills to create and implement programs that support refugee employment and integration.
- Promote Inclusive Practices: Encourage the development of inclusive practices that support refugees in becoming active members of their communities.
- Build Supportive Networks: Facilitate networking and collaboration among youth workers to share best practices and experiences in refugee support and employability skills development.
TARGET GROUP
For the participants’ selection, the following criteria will be taken into consideration:
- Youth Workers: Individuals working directly with refugees who need enhanced competencies in supporting employability and integration.
- Youth Leaders: Emerging leaders in youth organizations committed to promoting inclusive practices and supporting refugee communities.
- Educators and Trainers: Professionals involved in the education and training of youth who seek to integrate refugee support and employability skills into their programs.
There will be three main meals a day – breakfast, lunch & dinner.
Open call 3
Title: Youth Exchange “Facts Over Fiction”
Dates: January 22 – February 2, 2025 (Including Travel Days)
Place: Athens, Greece
Expected number of participants from Luxembourg: 6 participants aged 18-30 PLUS one team leader without age limit
Travel cost limit for the participants from Luxembourg: 309 Euro
Organized by: DreamTeam
The main aim of this youth exchange is to come together, review, and strengthen our critical knowledge about fake news and propaganda. Participants will then share this knowledge with their communities by creating a podcast episode. The approach will critically examine the concept of fake news, and you will gain practical skills needed to produce a podcast as the main output.
Participants will discuss the content and context of a specific issue by listening and creating podcasts, show critical attitude towards podcast shows, analyze its power to young people politically, socially, economically by asking deeper questions about what lies behind it: who profits from it, what is the real purpose driving production and distribution etc. Participants will turn into social and civic journalists, learn and create podcast episodes on relevant issues such as human rights, youth participation, social inclusion, gender equality, democracy while promoting peace and justice in our local communities.
MAIN OBJECTIVES
- Develop critical thinking and media literacy skills to question, evaluate and analyze what we listen and read.
- Develop critical thinking and media literacy skills to question, evaluate analyze what we listen read.
- Deepen our knowledge of information verification.
- Learn our rights and limitations when using the online space.
- Encourage young people to become active, engaged media consumers and users.
If the weather permits most of the sessions will take place at an outdoor amphitheatre located near the hotel. There will be three main meals a day – breakfast, lunch & dinner. Mind that reimbursement will be done when the organizers receive all relevant travel documents and after the dissemination period, approximately 3 months after the end of the Youth Exchange.
To apply any of the above mentioned projects, please visit the Google form via this link: https://forms.gle/MMymnJN1nEYZorp27
If the same applicant wants to apply for more than one project, they should fill the form out for each project separately.
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