🌍 About the Training
This Erasmus+ Training Course, organised by SALTO Inclusion & Diversity and SALTO Participation & Information, will take place in Romania 🇷🇴 and focuses on strengthening inclusive democratic participation of young people with fewer opportunities.
Although youth participation is strongly promoted within Erasmus+ and ESC, many young people facing social, economic, cultural, geographic, or educational barriers remain underrepresented in democratic processes. This course aims to equip youth workers, trainers, and practitioners with practical tools and competences to design and facilitate inclusive, accessible, and meaningful democratic participation processes.
This training is part of a long-term strategic initiative on inclusive democratic participation.
🗳 What Do We Mean by Democratic Participation?
Democratic participation goes far beyond voting. It includes all ways young people can influence decisions and shape their communities.
In youth work practice, this can mean:
✨ Co-designing projects and activities
✨ Participating in youth councils and consultations
✨ Engaging in advocacy and community campaigns
✨ Using digital tools, storytelling, and arts to express views
✨ Taking part in civic dialogue with decision-makers
✨ Participatory budgeting and shared governance
✨ Everyday shared decision-making within youth groups
🎯 Aims and Objectives
✨ Increase understanding of barriers faced by young people with fewer opportunities
✨ Explore and practice tools and methodologies for inclusive democratic participation
✨ Strengthen competences to address participation barriers
✨ Create peer learning and international exchange
✨ Support long-term integration of inclusive approaches into daily youth work
Participants are expected not only to benefit individually but to transfer and adapt tools within their organisations and local contexts after the course.
🛠 Themes and Methodology
The course builds on a webinar series (February–May 2026) addressing inclusion in democratic participation, including:
✨ Youth in alternative care and decision-making processes
✨ Rural youth civic and political participation
✨ Socio-economic barriers and poverty
✨ Democratic participation for neurodivergent young people and youth with intellectual disabilities
📚 Non-formal learning approach
🤝 Learning by doing, peer exchange, group work
💬 Reflection spaces and practical experimentation
🌱 The training itself models inclusive practice
Priority is given to applicants working with these target groups and/or who participated in the webinar series.
👥 Who Is It For?
👤 Youth workers, volunteers, trainers, grassroots activists
👤 Members of informal groups and community leaders
👤 Staff of youth organisations
👤 Those working with young people facing fewer opportunities
👤 Practitioners focused on democratic participation
Special encouragement is given to applicants with lived experience of overcoming barriers (social, economic, geographic, disability-related, minority background, rural isolation, etc.).
Working language: English
Accessibility: Fully accessible venue, single rooms available, adapted rooms possible, personal assistants supported.
📅 Activity Dates
🗓 01 June 2026 – 05 June 2026
📅 Application Deadline
🗓 22 March 2026 (24h UTC)
📢 Date of Selection: 06 April 2026
💶 Financial Conditions
💶 Participation fee varies depending on your country (contact your National Agency)
🏡 Accommodation in single rooms covered
🍽 Meals covered (mostly vegetarian/vegan; adaptable to dietary needs)
✈️ Travel costs covered by your National Agency or SALTO
🚌 Adapted transport can be arranged if necessary
📜 Youthpass certificate provided
📍 Location
Romania 🇷🇴 (exact venue to be confirmed)
🌍 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 🇹🇷, Albania 🇦🇱, Algeria 🇩🇿, Armenia 🇦🇲, Azerbaijan 🇦🇿, Belarus 🇧🇾, Bosnia and Herzegovina 🇧🇦, Egypt 🇪🇬, Georgia 🇬🇪, Israel 🇮🇱, Jordan 🇯🇴, Kosovo 🇽🇰, Lebanon 🇱🇧, Libya 🇱🇾, Moldova 🇲🇩, Montenegro 🇲🇪, Morocco 🇲🇦, Palestine 🇵🇸, Russian Federation 🇷🇺, Syria 🇸🇾, Tunisia 🇹🇳, Ukraine 🇺🇦
🔗 Application Link
http://trainings.salto-youth.net/14495
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