🔑 Key Information
Activity ⭐️ Title
Democracy Hacks: Shaping Strategies and Solutions
Activity 🔶 Type | 📆 Dates | 📍Location
Training Course
28 June - 3 July 2026 | Hannover , Germany
❗️What Is This Training About?
This training will equip you with the practical skills to defend democracy in your community and beyond. With expert trainers, you will enhance your digital literacy skills, gain tools for grassroots action, create your own workshop and more!
ℹ️ Description About The Opportunity
Now more than ever, there is a need for achievable and realistic solutions to strengthen democratic processes. Democracy Hacks: Shaping Strategies and Solutions will focus on practical strategies and skill-building for youth to tackle pressing democratic challenges.
As a participant of our training, you will:
- practice media literacy skills to decode misleading narratives
- create strategies to mobilize grassroots action and digital activism
- gain skills to facilitate workshops on democracy
- participate in non-formal education and peer learning
In this training course, you will uncover the dangers of misleading political narratives and relate it to real-world examples. Together, we will then delve into building strategies to combat democratic erosion within the context of current social and political landscapes.
You will learn the key ingredients of effective activism to spark action online and at a local level. Alongside expert trainers, a local organization will provide good practice examples based on its experience. With fellow youth workers and leaders, you will leap into action by co-creating online workshops that draw on the skills and knowledge learned during the activity. As a follow-up activity, we will organise a series of online events for you to deliver these workshops and practice facilitation to then implement these in your own life and/or work.
Training overview
This Training Course is
for 20 participants
from Austria, Belgium - DE, Belgium - FL, Belgium - FR, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Netherlands, Republic of North Macedonia
and recommended for
Youth workers, Trainers, Youth leaders, Youth project managers, Youth policy makers, Volunteering mentors, Youth coaches, Youth researchers
Working language(s):
English
Organiser:
International Young Naturefriends (Youth NGO)
IYNF is one of Europe’s leading youth organisations, committed to shaping a just and sustainable future through non-formal education. Since 1975, we have been building a community of individuals and organisations through educational training, exchanges, and networking. Find our more about us here: https://www.iynf.org/.
📥 Contact
Contact for questions:
Esmée Schimmelpenninck
E-Mail:
Phone: +31 616 40 38 74
💶 Costs
Costs
Participation fee
50 EUR for participant part of IYNF's member and partner organization/ 75 EUR for non-members
Accommodation and food
Accommodation and meals will be fully covered
Travel reimbursement
Travels in accordance with IYNF's green travel policy will be reimbursed, under the following maximums:
Travel Distance Green Travels Non-Green Travel
- 10 - 99km 56 EUR not allowed
- 100 - 499km 285 EUR not allowed
- 500 - 1999km 417 EUR 309 EUR (justified cases)
- 2000 - 2999km 535 EUR 395 EUR
📜 Certificate
Participants are entitled to receive a Youthpass certificate from the organiser, for recognition of their competence development during the activity. Read more about Youthpass:
https://youthworkshub.org/15122
⚠️ Important Dates
Application deadline (24h UTC): 27 May 2026
Date of selection: 29 May 2026
