🔑 Key Information
Activity ⭐️ Title
Beyond Take Off: From Local Youth Work to Cross Border Connections
Activity 🔶 Type | 📆 Dates | 📍Location
Partnership-building Activity
7-11 October 2026 | Tbilisi, Georgia
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❗️What Is This Training About?
Partner Building Activity bringing together youth workers, youth organisations and local youth work actors from Iceland and the Eastern Europe and Caucasus (EECA) region.
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ℹ️ Description About The Opportunity
About the activity
Beyond Take‑Off: From Local Youth Work to Cross‑Border Connections. The activity focuses on strengthening cross‑border cooperation grounded in local youth work realities, with a particular emphasis on inclusion as a practical and lived dimension of youth work. The PBA creates a structured yet informal space for participants to exchange practices, understand each other’s contexts, and build trust‑based partnerships that can lead to future Erasmus+ Youth cooperation projects.
Rather than jumping straight into project writing, the activity is designed to support participants in moving from local practice to meaningful international cooperation, ensuring that future partnerships are relevant, realistic and rooted in shared values and needs.
The programme will take place in Tbilisi, Georgia, and will include an on‑site visit to a local youth work provider, offering participants a closer look at youth work practice in the local context.
The activity responds to the need to bridge youth work realities across different systems and environments, enabling participants to learn from each other and explore how local youth work can be strengthened through international cooperation.
Aim of the Activity
The aim of this Partner Building Activity is to strengthen cooperation between youth work actors from Iceland and the EECA region by building sustainable, inclusive and value‑based partnerships grounded in local youth work realities, and by supporting the development of concrete Erasmus+ Youth projects that promote inclusion and participation in local contexts.
Objectives
The activity will provide opportunities for participants to:
- Explore and better understand local youth work realities, organisational structures, challenges and opportunities in Iceland and the EECA region
- Exchange practices and experiences related to working with diverse groups of young people at local level
- Reflect on inclusion and participation in local youth work, moving from principles to concrete practices, tools and dilemmas
- Build trust and mutual understanding as a foundation for meaningful and sustainable partnerships
- Identify shared values, interests and realistic expectations for cooperation
- Develop initial ideas for future Erasmus+ Youth projects based on common needs
- Clarify next steps, follow‑up actions and possible future cooperation or project‑development pathways beyond the residential activity
Methods and methodology
The activity will be based on non‑formal education principles, using participatory, experiential and practice‑oriented methods. The process will prioritise:
- Active involvement and shared responsibility
- Learning from participants’ real‑life youth work contexts
- Dialogue, reflection and mutual support
- Creating space for informal connections and trust building
NOTE: There will be an online onboarding meeting about a month before the event that selected participants will be required to attend.
Training overview
This Partnership-building Activity is
for 25 participants
from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iceland, Moldova, Ukraine
and recommended for
Youth workers, Youth leaders, Youth project managers, Municipality youth workers
Working language(s):
English
Organiser:
The Icelandic National Agency of Erasmus+ and European Solidarity Corps (National Agency)
Co-organiser(s):
- SALTO EECA (SALTO Resource Centre)
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📥 Contact
Contact for questions:
Óli Örn Atlason
E-Mail:
Phone: +3545155800
💶 Costs
Participation fee
This project is financed by the Icelandic National Agency of the Erasmus+ Youth in Action Programme and SALTO EECA. Participants will not be charged participation fee.
Accommodation and food
Unless specified otherwise, the hosting NA and SALTO of this activity will organise the accommodation and covers the costs for accommodation and food.
Travel reimbursement
The Icelandic National Agency and SALTO EECA will cover the travel costs of the selected participants.
After being selected, get in touch with your NA or SALTO again to learn more about the overall procedure to arrange the booking of your travel tickets and the reimbursement of your travel expenses.
📜 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): 28 June 2026
Date of selection: 7 August 2026
🔗 Official Link
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⚠️ Important Notice
1️⃣ Source of Information
This announcement has been prepared based on the information provided by the source.
2️⃣ No Affiliation
YouthWorks Hub is not the organiser, partner, or representative of the projects listed. All applications must be submitted directly to the project coordinator or hosting organisation through the original link, email, etc.
3️⃣ Content May Change
The project coordinator is solely responsible for the accuracy and details of the opportunity. Deadlines, eligible countries, activity dates, and other details may change, or the announcement may be withdrawn entirely, at any time after publication. Always check the original link before applying.
4️⃣ Funding
All funding, travel reimbursements, and allowances are determined and provided by the project coordinator or National Agency. YouthWorks Hub is not responsible for any payments or financial matters.
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💡 Final Note: All listings are shared for informational purposes only. Please always verify details directly through the official project coordinator or programme website before applying.
