Can a comic strip make youth work more inclusive? DRAW-IN for Youth Work, "Drawing Inclusion through Comics for Youth Work", is an Erasmus+ KA153-YOU Training Course that equips youth workers with digital comics and visual storytelling tools to promote inclusion, participation, EU values, and intercultural dialogue among young people with fewer opportunities across Europe. The Training Course takes place in Munich, Germany, and gathers 32 youth workers from eight countries for a creative, hands-on European learning experience.
This mobility is the first step of a complete learning journey. Participants are co-creators, not only attendees: the project runs through preparation, the Training Course in Munich, local pilot workshops in each country, a Study Visit in Eskişehir (Türkiye) in November, and follow-up activities, all feeding into a shared Digital Comics Toolkit.
🎯 About the Project
DRAW-IN for Youth Work is designed to improve the quality, creativity, and inclusiveness of youth work. It brings together 32 youth workers from eight countries to explore how digital comics and visual storytelling can support non-formal education, transforming complex topics such as inclusion, democracy, citizenship, and human rights into accessible visual stories. Throughout the process, participants learn, test, adapt, and share comics-based methods for working with refugees, migrants, NEETs, and other young people with fewer opportunities.
The project's main goals are to:
🎨 Develop digital and creative competences
🤝 Strengthen inclusive youth work
🧩 Create practical and reusable methods
🗳️ Promote citizenship and European values
🌍 Strengthen European cooperation
🖍️ The Training Course in Munich
The first mobility is a seven-day Training Course in Munich (28 August to 5 September 2026) that prepares participants to use digital comics and visual storytelling as practical tools for more creative, accessible, and inclusive youth work. The working language is English.
During the week, participants will:
✏️ Get practical training in digital comics and visual storytelling, creating comics, storyboards, and visual educational materials on inclusion, migration, human rights, democracy, citizenship, and intercultural dialogue
🎭 Take part in role plays and simulations on inclusion and discrimination, plus discussions and World Café sessions
🤝 Exchange with local young people and youth professionals
🧠 Join international teamwork and workshop-design laboratories, then design workshops to test at home
📓 Reflect daily and document their learning for Youthpass
By the end of the mobility, participants will have created digital comics and designed comics-based workshops to run with young people in their local communities, contributing their materials and experiences to the Digital Comics Toolkit.
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🇹🇷 The Study Visit in Eskişehir
The second mobility is a Study Visit in Eskişehir, Türkiye, in November, where the same 32 youth workers build on what they learned in Munich. They observe inclusive youth work in practice, meet local youth workers and professionals, run practical comics-based activities with young people, and improve the methods they tested in their communities. The Study Visit strengthens cooperation between the partners and supports the continued use of visual storytelling in local youth work. Participants must have valid travel and health insurance covering the full mobility period in Türkiye, and should bring their pilot-workshop results, digital materials, and a laptop or tablet when possible.
🧠 Learning Methods
The project uses non-formal education, digital creativity, and visual storytelling, and everything follows the cycle Do, Reflect, Learn, and Apply.
🎨 Digital comics, storyboards, and visual narratives to explore inclusion, citizenship, and human rights
💬 Discussions, simulations, role plays, and World Café activities on migration, discrimination, citizenship, and human rights
🤝 International teamwork where participants exchange experiences, challenges, and youth work methods
🪞 Daily reflection through group discussions, feedback, learning diaries, and Youthpass
Methods are adapted to different needs and communication levels, and every participant is encouraged to contribute, express ideas, and take an active role.
🎓 What You Will Gain
🖌️ The ability to create digital comics, storyboards, and visual materials using accessible online tools, plus basic digital content design skills
🌈 Stronger skills to adapt activities to different needs, backgrounds, and communication levels, especially with young people with fewer opportunities
🧩 Improved facilitation, activity design, and group management skills for daily youth work
🗣️ Better cooperation, active listening, and intercultural communication through international teamwork
📜 Youthpass recognition documenting the competences you developed
👥 Who Can Apply
Participants should be active youth workers, educators, trainers, or volunteers involved in youth work, preferably supporting refugees, migrants, NEETs, rural youth, or other disadvantaged groups. They should be motivated to learn digital comics and visual storytelling, work in intercultural teams, and apply the methods locally. Previous experience with comics or digital tools is not required.
🎂 Minimum age 20 years old, with no upper age limit
🗣️ Working language is English; participants need basic communication skills and willingness to speak and cooperate
👥 Each national team consists of 4 participants: 2 experienced youth workers and 2 youth workers with fewer opportunities
🌍 At least 16 participants (2 from each partner organisation) will face barriers such as geographical, social, economic, or educational barriers, rural isolation, migrant or refugee backgrounds, or limited international experience
🔁 The same participants attend both mobilities and all project activities, including preparation, local pilot workshops, and follow-up
🏛️ Coordinator and Partners
The coordinating organisation is NextGen e.V., based in Munich, which creates innovative and inclusive learning opportunities for young people and youth workers and hosts the Training Course. The second mobility is hosted by Odunpazarı Sosyal Yardımlaşma ve Dayanışma Vakfı in Eskişehir. The project brings together eight organisations from Germany, Spain, Italy, Romania, France, Portugal, the Netherlands, and Türkiye, each responsible for selecting and preparing participants and supporting them through both mobilities and the local activities.
🏠 Accommodation and Meals
In Munich, participants stay at 2-Rent Group Hostel Rooms (AUB162), a well-connected hostel with shared twin rooms, private bathrooms, free Wi-Fi, and 24-hour reception, close to public transport.
🛏️ Simple, functional shared rooms in a quiet area of Munich
🍽️ 3 meals a day (breakfast, lunch, and dinner) plus 2 coffee breaks
🚭 Smoking is not allowed inside the rooms, and quiet hours and other guests should be respected
💶 Funding, Travel and Insurance
This Mobility of Youth Workers project is co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme (project number 2025-3-DE04-KA153-YOU-000380011). Accommodation, meals, and participation are covered, and travel costs are refunded according to the Erasmus+ Distance Calculator and the Erasmus+ exchange rate.
🎫 Do not book travel before receiving approval from your sending organisation, and keep all travel tickets and boarding passes
🛡️ For the mobility in Germany, EU participants must bring a valid EHIC, while participants from Türkiye need private insurance covering the full mobility; for the Study Visit in Türkiye, all EU participants must have private insurance covering the entire stay
💊 Bring enough personal medication for the whole stay, preferably in its original packaging
🎏 Intercultural Night
One evening is dedicated to the Intercultural Night, where each national team presents its country and culture in a creative, interactive way through food, music, games, and stories, rather than long presentations. Participants are encouraged to bring traditional snacks and beverages, small flags or decorations, music or traditional clothing, and games or quizzes, while keeping everything inclusive and respectful.
🎒 What to Bring
💻 A laptop or tablet whenever possible, as digital tools are used to create comics and materials, plus a smartphone, charger, headphones, and any necessary adapters
🪪 A valid identification document and all travel tickets and boarding passes
🧥 Layers, a light waterproof jacket, comfortable closed shoes, an umbrella, and sunscreen, as Munich in early September can be mild by day and cool in the mornings and evenings
♻️ A reusable water bottle, and a mindset to reduce waste, use public transport, and recycle where possible
📩 How to Apply
Complete the online application form carefully. Selected participants are expected to take part in the preparation process, the full Training Course, the local follow-up activities, and the second mobility in Eskişehir.
⏰ Deadline
12 August 2026.
🔗 Links
📄 Infopack: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kaP8u8bupSZgwzvhoE9zTxIBapAhoDv1/view?usp=drivesdk
📝 Application form: https://forms.gle/BBEoEmSzVEr1Aikw5
🎨 Want another Erasmus+ course that unlocks your creative side for youth work? This one is made exactly for that: Erasmus+ Training Course in 🇵🇱 Poland 🎨 Creativity for Non Creative Youth Workers ✨ → https://youthworkshub.org/21202
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