From recognising the early, invisible signs of gambling risk in young people in Romania and co-creating the tools to select and prepare the most vulnerable participants for safe, inclusive youth exchanges, to balancing democracy's polarities against polarisation and misinformation in Bulgaria, harvesting olives and pressing oil for climate action in a rural Greek grove, and diving into inner work and sustainable living at one of Germany's oldest ecovillages — this batch of 5 Erasmus+ opportunities spans 4 countries, split between sharpening the youth worker's craft and deeply experiential learning.
Erasmus+ training courses, seminars and youth exchanges cover travel and stay. One is open "as soon as possible," and the rest close between 27 July and 2 August 2026.
What's in this batch:
2 Training Courses · 1 Seminar · 2 Youth Exchanges · 4 Countries
🎓 Erasmus+ Opportunities
🇬🇷 Greece — Olive Cultivation, Sustainability and Climate Action (Youth Exchange) 🫒
📅 Deadline: As soon as possible!
Spend ten days in a rural Greek olive grove discovering how ancient olive traditions can help tackle climate change. Harvest olives, press oil at a traditional factory, explore permaculture and circular economy, and create OliVideos to inspire sustainable communities across Europe. Open to applicants from 🇬🇷 🇪🇸 🇺🇦 🇷🇴 🇮🇹 — learn the climate future from a 3,000-year-old crop.
🇩🇪 Germany — Inner Work and Ecovillage Life for Change-Makers (Youth Exchange) 🫂
📅 Deadline: 27 July 2026
Live in one of Germany's oldest ecovillages and dive deep into inner work, sustainable living and authentic connection at ZEGG. Join gardening and community life, explore emotions, boundaries and group dynamics, and grow as a change-maker with young people from across Europe. Open to applicants from 🇫🇷 🇪🇸 — change the world starts with changing how you show up in it.
🇧🇬 Bulgaria — Democratic Participation and Youth Leadership (Training Course) 🗳️
📅 Deadline: 31 July 2026
Bringing together youth leaders and youth workers, this course tackles the real pressures on democratic societies today: political polarisation, misinformation, declining trust in institutions and low youth participation. Through the Polarities of Democracy framework you will explore how seemingly opposing democratic values can be balanced to foster dialogue, cooperation and inclusive decision-making. Interactive workshops, simulations, group discussions and reflection build your competencies in critical thinking, media literacy, conflict transformation, facilitation and democratic leadership, and afterwards national teams design and run their own local democracy campaigns back home. Open to applicants from 🇧🇬 🇭🇷 🇭🇺 🇲🇰 🇹🇷 — leave able to run a democracy campaign, not just discuss one.
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🇷🇴 Romania — Youth Work Against Gambling Risks (Training Course) 🎲
📅 Deadline: 31 July 2026
Gambling risks rarely begin with a visible crisis. Young people often meet them first through sports betting, online ads, influencers, gaming mechanics or financial pressure, and youth workers who spot these situations early may lack the language and methods to respond without judgement. This course strengthens your capacity to recognise early warning signs, understand cognitive biases and persuasive online design, facilitate safer conversations about money, emotions and risk, and know the boundaries between youth work and therapeutic intervention. You leave with ready-to-use non-formal methods, then each national team tests at least five of them back home. Open to applicants from 🇪🇸 🇬🇷 🇭🇷 🇮🇹 🇹🇷 and 1 more — name and tackle a risk most youth work quietly misses.
🇷🇴 Romania — Building Safe and Inclusive Youth Exchanges (Seminar) 🛡️
📅 Deadline: 2 August 2026
How do you select and prepare the most vulnerable young people for an international youth exchange, ethically and safely? This thematic seminar brings together experienced youth workers to co-create the tools and shared methodology to do exactly that, with a focus on under-18s and young people facing mental health challenges, disabilities or very vulnerable circumstances. Through workshops, case studies and peer learning you will build common standards for inclusive participant selection, group leader preparation and adaptable exchange agendas, strengthening the quality, safety and inclusiveness of future mobility projects. — the safeguarding groundwork that makes inclusion real, not just a word.
Five Erasmus+ opportunities across 4 countries, split cleanly between craft and experience. On the craft side: spotting gambling risks early in Romania, balancing democracy's polarities in Bulgaria, and building the safeguarding standards for genuinely inclusive youth exchanges. On the experiential side: harvesting olives and pressing oil for climate action in a Greek grove, and inner work and ecovillage living for change-makers at ZEGG in Germany — these are not calls you'll see grouped together again. Romania hosts two of the five (the gambling-risk training and the inclusive-exchange seminar), and the two youth exchanges are open to young people generally rather than just youth workers. The Greek olive exchange moves as soon as possible; the rest close between 27 July and 2 August 2026. Choose yours.
