🔑 Key Information
Activity ⭐️ Title
European Meeting Weaving Inclusion: IDENTITIES & ART (TEIA)
Activity 🔶 Type | 📆 Dates | 📍Location
Training Course
1-9 August 2026 | Covilhã, Portugal
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❗️What Is This Training About?
This meeting aims to support youth workers and facilitators to better respond to the needs of young people. 8-day arts-based training in Covilhã on inclusion and diversity through arts-based workshops and co-creation, offering practical youth work tools.
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ℹ️ Description About The Opportunity
This meeting aims to support youth workers and facilitators in developing their socio-educational competences to better respond to the needs of young people, with a particular focus on LGBTI+ and neurodivergent youth. Through arts-based methods, participants will explore inclusion and diversity in a creative, practical, and accessible way.
This project addresses the ongoing challenges of discrimination and exclusion by equipping youth workers with tools that promote inclusion, understanding, and empowerment.
Arts are used as a central approach throughout the meeting, enabling participants to explore themes such as identity, diversity, and belonging. The programme includes workshops, storytelling, multimedia, crafts, co-creation processes, and textile art.
The learning process is participatory and experience-based, encouraging reflection, exchange, and immediate application in participants’ professional contexts.
The project aims to:
- Strengthen inclusive and intercultural competences
- Provide practical tool for youth worker
- Support work with LGBTQIA+ and neurodivergent youth
- Encourage active participation and social inclusion
- Promote personal and professional development
The programme combines:
- Creative workshops (textile arts, crafts, multimedia)
- Group work and Intercultural exchange
- Exploration of the town of Covilhã
- Reflection and skills development activities
All activities are designed to be immediately transferable to participants’ professional contexts.
Inclusion is the core of this project. The meeting creates a safe and supportive environment, particularly for LGBTI+ and neurodivergent participants.
It promotes:
- Promoting gender equality
- Respect for diversity
- Supports for participants facing discrimination or cultural barriers
- Recognition of different identities, experiences and ways of learning
This project targets Portuguese-speaking (lusophone) youth workers, facilitators and individuals active in youth work who are interested in inclusion, diversity and creative methodologies.
A total of 47 participants will be selected.
This nine-day mobility will take place in Covilhã, a town in central Portugal. Its environment offers a range of spaces that support both learning and cultural immersion, allowing participants to connect with local context while engaging in this project.
Training overview
This Training Course is
for 45 participants
from Belgium - DE, Belgium - FL, Belgium - FR, Denmark, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Portugal, Sweden
and recommended for
Youth workers, Trainers, Youth leaders, Youth project managers, Volunteering mentors
Working language(s):
Portuguese
Organiser:
Cap Magellan (Youth NGO)
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📥 Contact
Contact for questions:
Louisa Ribeiro
E-Mail:
Phone: +331 79 35 11 00
💶 Costs
Participation fee
This project is financed by Erasmus+ Programme in the field of youth. There is no participation fee.
Accommodation and food
All the costs of the program, accommodation, food and activities will be covered by the organisers. All participants will be provided with three meals per day – breakfast, lunch, dinner.
Travel reimbursement
Germany 395€
Denmark 395€
Sweden 395€
France 309€
Belgium 309€
Luxembourg 309€
Portugal 28€ (in case the distance travelled between the place of residence to Covilhã is between 10-99km) OR
Portugal 211€ (in case the distance travelled between the place of residence to Covilhã is between 100-499km)
📜 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): 30 June 2026
Date of selection: 1 July 2026
🔗 Official Link
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