🇮🇹 Erasmus+ Conference in Italy ✊ Stand for Our Rights 🌍 Human Rights Education, Social Justice & Activism, Turin 🇮🇹
As the spaces for human rights work continue to shrink across the globe, the Human Rights Education community is being called to reflect, regroup, and act. This Erasmus+ conference in Turin, Italy brings together youth workers, human rights educators, trainers, and activists to critically examine their practice, exchange strategies, and co-create a shared Manifesto on Human Rights Education in times of systemic violation. No participation fee. Accommodation and meals covered. Travel reimbursed.
🌍 Did You Know? Turin (Torino) is one of Italy's most underrated cities — a baroque metropolis of grand boulevards, world-class museums, and a proud industrial and activist heritage. It was Italy's first capital after unification in 1861, home to some of Europe's finest Egyptian artefacts at the Museo Egizio, and a city with a rich tradition of social movements and trade union organising that feels deeply fitting for a conference on human rights.
What Is This Conference About?
✊ Critically reflect on Human Rights Education (HRE) practice in today's complex geopolitical environment — where human rights are increasingly under threat even in traditionally "safe" contexts
🔄 Facilitate the exchange of strategies, tools, and support mechanisms among HRE practitioners from across Erasmus+ countries
📜 Co-create a shared Manifesto on Human Rights Education in Times of Human Rights Violations — a collective statement to be shared with the wider HRE community and international stakeholders
🗣️ Explore how HRE can be adapted and sustained in contexts that are openly hostile or structurally resistant to human rights values
🤝 Reconnect with shared human rights values and transform them from abstract principles into authentic, collective practices for social justice
🌍 Did You Know? Human Rights Education (HRE) is recognised by the United Nations as a fundamental right in itself — not just a teaching tool but a vehicle for empowerment, dignity, and social transformation. Yet research consistently shows that HRE practitioners face growing burnout, funding cuts, and political resistance, making peer exchange and community-building events like this conference more critical than ever.
Who Can Apply?
🌍 Youth workers, human rights educators, trainers, activists, youth leaders, project managers, volunteering mentors, and youth coaches from Erasmus+ Youth Programme countries
✊ Active in or closely connected to Human Rights Education, social justice, non-formal education, or civic engagement work
🗣️ Working language is English — a good level of English is required to participate fully
♿ The conference venue and activities are fully accessible to people with disabilities
🎓 Participants will receive a Youthpass certificate for recognition of competence development during the activity
Accommodation, Food & Travel
🏨 Accommodation at Open011 hostel, managed by the Municipality of Turin — Corso Venezia 11; shared rooms of 3 to 4 people, each with an en-suite bathroom; towels and sheets provided
🧴 Participants should bring their own shampoo, shower gel, and personal hygiene products (or purchase locally)
🍽️ Meals provided for the full duration of the conference — no food costs for participants
💰 No participation fee
✈️ Travel reimbursed after the activity upon submission of all required documents (invoice, proof of payment, original receipts, self-attendance declaration, and boarding passes) — reimbursement based on distance: 100–499 km: €211 standard / €285 green; 500–1999 km: €309 / €417; 2000–2999 km: €395 / €535; 3000–3999 km: €580 / €785
⚠️ Travel reimbursement is only possible if all required documents are submitted — missing documents cannot be reimbursed under any circumstances
Programme Structure
📅 17 June (Wednesday) — Arrival and welcome dinner
📅 18 June (Thursday) — Understanding: Official opening, check-in session, and sessions on reading the HRE context and youth field
📅 19 June (Friday) — Learning: Workshops on practices of resistance and adaptation, strategies for HRE, and supporting the HRE community
📅 20 June (Saturday) — Activating: Co-creation of the shared Manifesto, closing session and evaluation
📅 21 June (Sunday) — Departure
🎓 Methodology: participatory non-formal education — plenary discussions, expert contributions, collaborative working sessions, and reflection spaces
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