🇭🇷🎶 Erasmus+ Training Course in Croatia 🇭🇷 Music, Human Rights and Youth Advocacy for Change-Makers Songs for Action 🎤✊🇭🇷

🌍 Project Overview
Songs for Action is an Erasmus+ Training Course designed for youth workers, activists, educators, and musicianswho want to use music as a tool for social change, human rights education, and youth participation.

This training empowers participants to translate the EU Youth Strategy and European Youth Goals into powerful creative actions through songwriting, composing, recording, facilitation, and advocacy. Using the Songs for Rights – LACPA method, participants will explore how music can amplify messages, mobilise communities, and inspire collective action.

This is a hands-on, practice-oriented training where learning happens through doing, creating, and collaborating.

📍 Location
Karlovac, Croatia 🇭🇷
Venue: Ekodrom – Karlovac, a creative and ecological space supporting learning, sustainability, and artistic expression.

🗓 Activity Dates
19–25 April 2026
🛬 Arrival day: 19 April 2026
🛫 Departure day: 25 April 2026

📅 Application Deadline
9 February 2026

👥 Participant Profile
🧑 Youth workers, activists, educators, musicians
🎶 Experience in music (writing, singing, playing an instrument) and/or youth/social work
✊ Interested in human rights, advocacy, and youth participation
🌍 Residents of: Italy 🇮🇹 Germany 🇩🇪 Croatia 🇭🇷 Netherlands 🇳🇱
🔞 Aged 18+
🌱 Motivated to apply the Songs for Rights methods in local communities

🎯 Training Objectives
🎶 Learn how to promote European Youth Goals through music
✊ Understand and apply the Songs for Rights LACPA method
🎤 Develop facilitation skills using music games and creative exercises
📝 Explore different songwriting techniques
🎧 Learn how to record, produce, and share original songs
🎥 Create simple music videos for advocacy purposes
📢 Learn how to advocate through music and reach the right audiences

🧠 Learning Approach
🎶 Music-based non-formal education
🤝 Experiential and participatory methods
🎤 Creative workshops and group collaboration
✊ Advocacy-focused learning
🌍 Strong connection between European values and local action

🍽 Practical Information
🥗 Food: All meals are vegetarian
🎸 Equipment: Participants are encouraged to bring their own instruments if possible
🛡 Health & Travel Insurance: Participants are responsible for their own insurance
🌱 Sustainability: Green travel options are strongly encouraged

📄 Funding
This activity is funded by the Erasmus+ Programme – Key Action 1, covering accommodation, food, and programme costs according to Erasmus+ rules.

📩 Contact Person
Manuela Van den Broeck
Project Coordinator
📧 info@songsforights.org

📎 Application Form
https://forms.gle/VWpKrDtoRThYJ8Nt8

📘 Infopack
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1A5kDJ1UyPkTEamRhWkvrRuDXQ14G3RoP/view?usp=drivesdk

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