🚶‍♀️⚖️ Erasmus+ Training Course in Spain 🇪🇸 Walking Towards Gender Equality Strengthening Youth Work Practices Through Feminist and Intersectional Approaches

Walking Towards Gender Equality is an Erasmus+ Training Course taking place in Cocentaina (Alicante), Spain 🇪🇸, bringing together youth workers, youth leaders, educators, and members of youth organisations to critically explore patriarchy, gender inequalities, and feminist perspectives through non-formal education.

The training focuses on analysis, debate, reflection, and practice, supporting participants in developing tools to address gender equality, diversity, and democratic participation in their local youth work contexts.

🧩 About the Training Course
⚖️ Erasmus+ Training Course for youth work professionals
👥 26 participants from EU Member States and third countries associated to the Programme
🏨 Hosted at Hotel Anna, Cocentaina (Alicante), Spain
🧠 Focus on gender equality, feminism, patriarchy, and intersectionality
🤝 Non-formal education, peer learning, and experiential methodologies

🎯 General Objective
🧠 To empower youth workers and youth leaders to challenge patriarchy and promote gender equality and respect for diversity by developing critical understanding of gender-based stereotypes and their impact on individuals and communities, fostering reflective learning, exchanging good practices, and co-creating adaptable non-formal education tools for local contexts.

🎯 Specific Objectives
⚖️ Understand patriarchy as a systemic social structure and its social, cultural, and political impacts
🧩 Critically analyse gender stereotypes through an intersectional perspective
📚 Share and reflect on good practices and educational resources from participating countries
🛡️ Strengthen facilitation and safe-space management skills
📢 Support youth empowerment and the creation of counter-narratives challenging patriarchal norms

⚠️ Mandatory Dissemination Activity
📌 Participants are required to plan and implement a dissemination activity after the training in their home countries
📄 A short report with pictures and description must be submitted
📆 Dissemination must be completed before 15 July 2026

👤 Participant Profile
👥 Youth workers, youth leaders, teachers, coordinators, and members of youth organisations
🎂 18+ (no upper age limit)
🗣️ Able to communicate fluently in English
⚖️ Basic or no prior knowledge on gender topics required
🤝 Motivated to organise local activities with young people
🌍 Open-minded, flexible, and respectful of diversity
⭐ Priority given to participants with fewer opportunities and those working with youth with fewer opportunities

🚫 This is not a youth exchange
🚫 Not suitable for those looking for holidays, partying, or free time

📍 Dates & Location
📅 15–22 May 2026 (including travel days)
📍 Cocentaina, Alicante, Spain 🇪🇸

🏨 Accommodation & Food
🏨 Hotel Anna, Cocentaina
🛏️ Triple rooms
🍽️ All meals included: breakfast, lunch, dinner, coffee breaks
🏢 Activities hosted at the Youth Council of Cocentaina (opposite the hotel)

✈️ Travel & Reimbursement
✈️ 100% travel reimbursement up to Erasmus+ distance calculator limits
🚆 Eligible transport: plane, train, bus, carpooling
🚫 Taxis not reimbursed
📄 Tickets and boarding passes required
🩺 European Health Insurance Card or private insurance required

📅 Application Deadline
📆 16 March 2026

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

🔗 Application Form
https://forms.gle/ALy1E5T3cTK49jeK7

📘 Infopack
https://drive.google.com/file/d/16ejRatk5-B2NQBQaB0g_62bosDwMUblI/view

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