🇧🇬🛡️ Erasmus+ Training Course “CyberSafe” in Plovdiv, Bulgaria – Strengthening Digital Literacy & Online Safety for Youth Workers 🇧🇬✨

🌐 About the Training Course
CyberSafe is an Erasmus+ Training Course designed to strengthen digital literacy, critical thinking, and online safety skills of youth workers across Europe. In a time of increasing digital risks, misinformation, AI-generated fake content, and cyberviolence, this project equips youth work professionals with practical tools to stay safe online and to better support young people in the digital world.

Through intensive learning, peer exchange, and hands-on methods, participants will explore how to recognise online threats, protect personal data, and respond to digital challenges affecting young people and communities.

After the mobility, participants are expected to deliver follow-up workshops in their local contexts, ensuring sustainable impact and knowledge transfer within organisations and communities.

🎯 Project Objectives
🧠 Build skills to recognise online threats and AI-generated fake content
🚨 Increase awareness of cyberbullying and cyberviolence
🔐 Train youth workers in practical steps for online protection
📱 Strengthen critical thinking and digital skills for safe internet and social media use
🌍 Deliver follow-up workshops in partner countries to spread knowledge locally

👤 Participant Profile
✔️ Age: 18+ (no upper age limit)
✔️ Background: youth workers, trainers, youth leaders, volunteers, project managers, NGO staff, mentors, coaches, administrators
✔️ Experience in youth work and strong interest in digital literacy and online safety
✔️ Motivation to improve digital competences
✔️ Participants with fewer opportunities are strongly encouraged
✔️ Conversational English required

📍 Location
Plovdiv, Bulgaria

🗓️ Activity Dates
21 February – 1 March 2026 (including travel days)

🌍 Eligible Applicant Countries
Bulgaria 🇧🇬, Greece 🇬🇷, Türkiye 🇹🇷, Italy 🇮🇹, Poland 🇵🇱, Portugal 🇵🇹, Spain 🇪🇸, Lithuania 🇱🇹, Netherlands 🇳🇱

🗣️ Working Language
English

💰 Costs & Practicalities
🍽️ Accommodation and food fully covered
🏨 Shared hotel rooms (2–3 persons)
🥗 3 meals + 2 coffee breaks per day
🎒 Training materials included
✈️ Travel costs reimbursed according to Erasmus+ distance rules

📅 Application Deadline
30 January 2026

🔗 Application Link
Participants Application Form: https://forms.gle/Z4CkPkuUu27N3Bdm8

🏢 Organiser
Can You Association (Youth NGO)

📩 Contact
Denitsa Yordanova
team.canyou@gmail.com

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