🔑 Key Information
Activity ⭐️ Title
Rebuilding Confidence in the Future: A Futures-Oriented Approach to Youth Work
Activity 🔶 Type | 📆 Dates | 📍Location
Training Course
7-11 September 2026 | Youth Centre Marttinen, Virrat , Finland
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❗️What Is This Training About?
Young people’s confidence in a positive future is weakening - this has become an increasingly urgent concern across Europe. We believe it is time to move from talk to action and find concrete ways to tackle this topic within youth work.
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ℹ️ Description About The Opportunity
Young people’s confidence in a positive future is weakening - this has become an increasingly urgent concern across Europe. In Finland, this issue has risen to the forefront of official youth policy discussion as well as within the youth work practice field.
We believe it is time to move from talk to action and find concrete ways to tackle this topic within youth work. By offering a targeted capacity-building activity, Marttinen aims to strengthen its role as a pioneer in integrating futures thinking into youth work. This initiative addresses young people’s diminishing confidence in the future and explores the role of youth work in actively strengthening and restoring this confidence–help young people navigate in a fast-changing world and recognise the full potential of their own life, while also creating a better future for all.
To attain this objective, the trainers use established theoretical foundations such as the concept of futures consciousness and futures skills/literacy.
Objectives
To identify and explore the factors contributing to young people’s declining confidence in the future
To build a broader European-level understanding of young people’s current confidence in the future through the exchange of knowledge and experiences
To understand how an individual’s relationship with the future is formed and how challenges in this relationship may manifest in young people
To experience and test activities that develop futures thinking
To analyse and further develop youth work practices through sharing approaches and taking time to reflect on what is possible
To provide space for self-reflection and for strengthening participants’ own individual relationship with the future
To develop new practices and guidelines for a futures-oriented approach in youth work through both individual reflection and group work
Participant profile
Participants should:
Demonstrate a strong interest in the topic and motivation to engage with it
Be working regularly with young people who experience a lack of confidence in the future
Have at least 3 years of experience of youth work and sufficient proficiency in English to engage with conceptual discussions and youth work development
Be supported by an organisation interested in integrating a futures-oriented approach into its youth work
Training overview
This Training Course is
for 20 participants
from Erasmus+ Youth Programme countries 
and recommended for
Youth workers, Youth leaders, Youth project managers, Youth policy makers, Youth coaches
Accessibility info:
This activity and venue place are accessible to people with disabilities.
Working language(s):
English
Organiser:
Marttinen Youth Centrre (Youth NGO)
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📥 Contact
Contact for questions:
Sami Sorjonen
E-mail: kv@marttinen.fi
E-Mail:
Phone: +358447151953
💶 Costs
Costs
Participation fee
There is no participation fee
Accommodation and food
Accommodation, food funded by the project
Travel reimbursement
Travel costs are reimbursed based on the Distance calculator distance between your home town to Virrat, Finland.
Travel distance
Green trave/l Non-Green travel
10 – 99 km 56€ / 28€
100 – 499 km 285€ / 211€
500 – 1999 km 417€ / 309€
2000 – 2999 km 535€ / 395€
3000 – 3999 km 785€ / 580€
4000 – 7999 km 1188€ /1188€
📜 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 July 2026
Date of selection: 3 August 2026
🔗 Official Link
🗂️ Documents
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