Meaningful Participation: Innovation in Youth Participation Repertoires for Community Building is an Erasmus+ Training Course that invites youth workers to explore participation as a lived community-building practice. The project goes beyond participation as attendance or consultation and focuses on belonging, shared responsibility, long-term engagement and collective care. Through reflection, exchange and co-creation, participants will rethink how youth participation can become relational, sustainable and rooted in local communities.
📅 Activity Dates
31 March – 7 April 2026
🇪🇸 Location
San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Spain
🎯 Aim of the Training
🤝 Empower youth workers to foster meaningful youth participation
🌱 Expand participatory repertoires focused on community building and inclusion
🧩 Strengthen social cohesion through relational and process-based participation
🌍 Support long-term engagement and collective responsibility in youth work
🧭 Key Objectives
🕊️ Understand concepts of peace, violence, human rights, conflict and conflict transformation
🫂 Deepen understanding of meaningful participation linked to belonging and care
🔄 Explore youth participation as a relational and collective process
🗺️ Map local community needs addressed through innovative participation practices
🛠️ Co-create participatory tools that strengthen youth communities
📣 Design and present at least six local follow-up actions
🤝 Build a sustainable European cooperation network
🧭 Key Objectives
🕊️ Understand concepts of peace, violence, human rights, conflict and conflict transformation
🫂 Deepen understanding of meaningful participation linked to belonging and care
🔄 Explore youth participation as a relational and collective process
🗺️ Map local community needs addressed through innovative participation practices
🛠️ Co-create participatory tools that strengthen youth communities
📣 Design and present at least six local follow-up actions
🤝 Build a sustainable European cooperation network
🧩 How the Training Works
🎓 Based on non-formal education
🤝 Experiential, relational and participatory learning
💬 Collective reflection and dialogue
🛠️ Practical tools for facilitation and community care
🌍 Sharing experiences from diverse local realities
📍 Designing concrete follow-up actions rooted in local contexts
👥 Participant Profile
🧑 Youth workers, educators, facilitators, active volunteers
🎂 Aged 18+
🤝 Involved in youth organisations, community initiatives or grassroots movements
🌱 Interested in participation, community building, inclusion and care practices
🔥 Motivated to actively contribute and transfer learning locally
🌍 Eligible Countries
🇧🇪 Belgium, 🇧🇬 Bulgaria, 🇬🇷 Greece, 🇪🇸 Spain, 🇫🇷 France, 🇵🇹 Portugal, 🇷🇴 Romania, 🇩🇪 Germany, 🇭🇷 Croatia, 🇮🇹 Italy, 🇨🇾 Cyprus, 🇲🇹 Malta, 🇦🇹 Austria, 🇲🇰 North Macedonia, 🇷🇸 Serbia, 🇹🇷 Türkiye
💶 Costs & Funding
✔️ Accommodation, food and programme costs covered
✈️ Travel costs reimbursed according to Erasmus+ distance bands
🏛️ Organising Organisation
Libre-pensadores de la Sierra de Madrid (LPS)
🌍 Network promoting meaningful youth participation, human rights and community building through non-formal education and collective action
📌 Working Language
English
📅 Application Deadline
28 February 2026
📝 Application Form
https://forms.gle/fpEtwA6VyG9WwJ8f9
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