🇱🇹💻📱 Erasmus+ Training Course in Lithuania 🇱🇹 Strengthening Digital Youth Work, Media Literacy and Critical Thinking SMART YOUth 🌐🧠🇱🇹

🌍 Project Overview
SMART YOUth is an immersive Erasmus+ Training Course designed for youth workers, educators, trainers, and youth project professionals who want to strengthen their competences in digital youth work, media literacy, and critical thinking.

In response to the rapidly growing impact of digitalisation on young people’s lives, this training equips professionals with practical tools, methods, and attitudes to support young people in navigating complex digital environments in a safe, ethical, and critical way.

The course strongly focuses on online safety, digital wellbeing, ethical behaviour, misinformation, privacy, and responsible participation in digital spaces, while also highlighting the positive potential of digital tools for youth engagement and empowerment.

📍 Location
Birštonas, Lithuania 🇱🇹
Venue: Hotel “Royal Spa Residence”, Birštonas

🗓 Activity Dates
17–22 May 2026

📅 Application Deadline
3 April 2026
🗓 Selection Results: 10 April 2026

👥 Participant Profile
👤 Youth workers and educators
🧑‍🏫 Trainers and youth leaders
🧭 Youth project coordinators and managers
🤝 Volunteering mentors and youth coaches
🏘 Community leaders and activists

Participants should
✔ Have at least 1 year of experience in youth work, non-formal education, mentoring, counselling, or project-based work with young people
✔ Be able to communicate in English
✔ Be available for the full duration of the training

🌍 Eligible Countries
Austria 🇦🇹 Belgium 🇧🇪 Bulgaria 🇧🇬 Croatia 🇭🇷 Cyprus 🇨🇾 Czech Republic 🇨🇿 Denmark 🇩🇰 Estonia 🇪🇪 Finland 🇫🇮 France 🇫🇷 Germany 🇩🇪 Greece 🇬🇷 Hungary 🇭🇺 Iceland 🇮🇸 Ireland 🇮🇪 Italy 🇮🇹 Latvia 🇱🇻 Liechtenstein 🇱🇮 Lithuania 🇱🇹 Luxembourg 🇱🇺 Malta 🇲🇹 Netherlands 🇳🇱 Norway 🇳🇴 Poland 🇵🇱 Portugal 🇵🇹 Republic of North Macedonia 🇲🇰 Romania 🇷🇴 Serbia 🇷🇸 Slovak Republic 🇸🇰 Slovenia 🇸🇮 Spain 🇪🇸 Sweden 🇸🇪 Switzerland 🇨🇭 Türkiye 🇹🇷

🎯 Training Focus & Objectives
💻 Digital youth work practices
🧠 Critical thinking and information literacy
📰 Media literacy and misinformation awareness
🔐 Online safety, privacy, and ethical behaviour
🌱 Digital wellbeing and responsible participation

Participants will learn how to
✔ Guide young people in complex digital environments
✔ Integrate digital tools meaningfully into youth work
✔ Strengthen young people’s critical thinking skills
✔ Promote ethical and safe online participation

🧠 Learning Methodology
🎲 Non-formal education principles
🧩 Experiential learning and reflection
🎭 Role-playing and simulations
📚 Case studies from real youth work contexts
💬 Group discussions and peer learning
🤝 Collaborative tasks and practice-oriented workshops

🏁 Learning Outcomes
By the end of the training, participants will
✔ Be better equipped to apply digital tools in youth work
✔ Strengthen media literacy and critical thinking among young people
✔ Address risks related to misinformation, privacy, and online behaviour
✔ Promote safer, more ethical digital participation in local communities

🏨 Practical Information
🛏 Accommodation provided
🍽 Three meals per day + coffee and tea breaks
💆 Access to SPA area during breaks

💸 Costs & Funding
💶 Participation fee: Free of charge (administrative fee may apply via project partners)
✈ Travel costs reimbursed up to 100%, based on Erasmus+ distance rules
🌱 Green travel options are encouraged
📜 Youthpass certificate provided

🏢 Organiser
Society and Enterprise Development Institute (SEDI)
A Lithuanian NGO focused on civic engagement, volunteering, entrepreneurship, inclusion, and youth participation.

📩 Contact Person
Vladas
📧 vladas@vvpi.lt
📞 +370 643 98771

📎 Training Overview & Application
http://trainings.salto-youth.net/14322

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