🎓📚 Erasmus+ Training Course in Italy 🇮🇹 Creating Something That Doesn’t Yet Exist with the Paulo Freire Method

Creating something that doesn’t yet exist it has to be the ambition of all who are alive – 28° National Week of the Method of Liberation and Conscientization by Paulo Freire is an intensive Erasmus+ Training Course taking place in Parma, Italy, dedicated to the pedagogical legacy of Paulo Freire and its contemporary application in youth work, non-formal education, and community development.

🧩 About the Training Course
📘 28th edition of the National Week dedicated to Paulo Freire’s Method of Conscientization
🇧🇷 Inspired by the Brazilian pedagogist Paulo Freire
🔄 Reworked and adapted through the long-term practice of Gino Piccio
🏘️ Based on direct engagement with young people and community life
🧠 Focused on participatory processes and critical consciousness

🎯 Educational Aims
🗣️ Activate young people’s participation in addressing real-life community problems
🌱 Strengthen critical thinking and social awareness
🤝 Develop competences to work with and for young people
🏘️ Experience education as a collective and community-based process

🛠️ Methodology & Learning Process
🔨 Manual work in the morning as a basis for reflection
🔍 Research and application of the Freirean method in the afternoon
🧠 Evening exercises focused on reflection, dialogue, and group learning
📚 Active, experiential, and anthropological learning methodologies
🌍 Multicultural learning environment

👤 Participants Profile
👥 Youth workers, youth leaders, and trainers
📚 Professionals wishing to deepen competences in participatory pedagogy
🌍 Participants from multicultural backgrounds
🗣️ Mandatory: ability to speak and understand Italian
⏳ Availability for the full duration of the training week

📍 Dates & Location
📅 17–22 August 2026
📍 Contile di Varsi, Parma, Italy

💶 Financial Conditions
💰 The week is self-managed
🍽️ Food, utilities, and material costs shared among participants
💶 Estimated total cost: 100–200 EUR per person
💳 Registration deposit: 200 EUR (deducted from final costs)

📅 Application Deadline
📆 15 July 2026

🌍 Eligible Countries
🇦🇹 Austria, 🇧🇪 Belgium (DE), 🇧🇪 Belgium (FL), 🇧🇪 Belgium (FR), 🇧🇬 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, plus partner countries worldwide

🔗 Application & Info
📧 info@studiokappa.it
🌐 http://www.studiokappa.it
🔗 Training overview: http://trainings.salto-youth.net/14331

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