🗳️🇧🇪 Erasmus+ E-learning in Belgium “Democracy Reloading Webinars 2026” 🌍 Youth Participation in Municipal Decisions 🇧🇪

🌐 Democracy Reloading Webinars 2026 is an Erasmus+ E-learning series taking place online, coordinated from Belgium – FR, focusing on strengthening youth participation in municipal decision-making.

🏛 This initiative includes four 90-minute webinars in 2026, each dedicated to one of the four key competences municipalities need to successfully implement youth participation in local governance.

💡 Each session features a presentation from a local municipal youth policy officer and introduces one core task based on the Democracy Reloading approach, supporting municipalities in building meaningful, sustainable youth engagement structures.

📩 Registered participants will receive invitations to all four webinars. Three days before each webinar, participants will receive the meeting link via email.

📚 Webinar Topics & Dates

🟢 Webinar 1: The Supportive Municipality
📅 22 April 2026 | 15:00–16:30 CET
Focus on benefits of youth engagement in municipal decisions, addressing doubts, identifying key actors and establishing initial conditions for youth participation.
🎤 Guest speaker: Maja Björkebäck, Sustainability Strategist – Human Rights, Children’s Rights, Public Health, Jönköping Municipality

🟢 Webinar 2: Empowered Young People
📅 20 May 2026 | 15:00–16:30 CET
Focus on inclusion, representativity, empowering youth voice, motivation and long-term engagement.

🟢 Webinar 3: Strategy and Structure
📅 7 October 2026 | 15:00–16:30 CET
Focus on building and optimising sustainable youth participation strategies and structures within municipalities.

🟢 Webinar 4: Managing Youth Participation
📅 25 November 2026 | 15:00–16:30 CET
Focus on financial conditions, use of Erasmus+ grants, collaboration management and public communication of youth participation outcomes.

👥 Facilitators
Carolina Loureiro (Portugal)
Dorka Vaczi (Hungary)

👥 Participant Profile

Recommended for youth workers, youth leaders, youth policy makers and municipal youth policy officers.

👥 Total participants: 50
🗣 Working language: English
♿ Accessible for people with disabilities

💰 Participation Fee

💶 No participation fee

🏠 Accommodation and Travel

💻 Online activity – no accommodation required
✈️ No travel required

📅 Activity Dates

22 April 2026 (first webinar – full series runs until 25 November 2026)

📅 Application Deadline

19 April 2026 (24h UTC)

📅 Date of Selection

21 April 2026

🌍 Eligible Countries

🇦🇲 Armenia, 🇦🇿 Azerbaijan, 🇧🇾 Belarus, 🇬🇪 Georgia, 🇲🇩 Moldova, 🇺🇦 Ukraine, 🇦🇹 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, 🇩🇿 Algeria, 🇪🇬 Egypt, 🇮🇱 Israel, 🇯🇴 Jordan, 🇱🇧 Lebanon, 🇱🇾 Libya, 🇲🇦 Morocco, 🇵🇸 Palestine, 🇸🇾 Syria, 🇹🇳 Tunisia, 🇦🇱 Albania, 🇧🇦 Bosnia and Herzegovina, 🇽🇰 Kosovo, 🇲🇪 Montenegro

🔗 Application Link

http://trainings.salto-youth.net/14419

🌐 Democracy Reloading Website
https://democracy-reloading.eu

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