🔑 Key Information
Activity ⭐️ Title
European Citizenship Academy Seminar
Activity 🔶 Type | 📆 Dates | 📍Location
Seminar
28 September - 3 October 2026 | Hendaye, France
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❗️What Is This Training About?
The European Citizenship Academy Seminar aims to create spaces for learning, exchange and professional (and personal) development for young youth workers about the European Union and education on Europe.
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ℹ️ Description About The Opportunity
This seminar is address to youth workers/youth leaders, who want to act as peer educators on the topic of the European Union.
The objectives of the seminar are to:
- Contribute to a better appropriation of the EU by young people - knowledge and understanding
- Facilitate and strengthen their participation as informed citizens
- To support youth workers in undertaking work on European education with their target groups
- Initiate sustainable partnerships between European organisations to work on the subject of education about Europe
- Produce clear, intelligible and relevant information that can be developed by and with young people to encourage their participation.
The project aims to bring real added value to youth work and to strengthen the impact that youth workers can have on young people in the construction of Europe and can have on young people in shaping the future of the European Union by investing in peer education, a method that has proved its worth in many sectors.
Non-formal education will be at the heart of the seminar, including role-plays, debates and ideathon to make the participants gain knowledge about the European Union and skills about how to integrate that topic in activities involving young people in their local environment.
This project being much focused on peer-education, applications from young people will be an asset.
Training overview
This Seminar is
for 30 participants
from Erasmus+ Youth Programme countries 
and recommended for
Youth leaders
Working language(s):
English
Organiser:
Pistes-Solidaires (Youth NGO)
Pistes-Solidaires is an association whose aim is to bring Europe closer to people and develop their European citizenship.
As a non-formal education association, Pistes-Solidaires bases its approach on experiential learning - learning by doing - and the development of innovative learning methods, particularly for young people (tools, methods, themes covered, etc.).
Our principle is to empower the people we work with and for, using an effective 3-step learning method that we apply to al l our projects: Know, Understand, Act. You can only act on what you understand, and you can only understand what you know.
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📥 Contact
Contact for questions:
Magali Lansalot
E-Mail:
Phone: +33621126623
💶 Costs
Participation fee
None
Accommodation and food
Everything is organised and covered by the project.
It will take place in Hendaye, a city located in the South West of France, in the cultural region cal led Basque Country. Composed of 18.000 inhabitants, the area in very touristic, especially during summer because of the ocean.
Travel reimbursement
The reimbursement will be made under the limit of the Erasmus+ travel grant defined by the program, depending on the distance band between Hendaye and the living place of the participants.
📜 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): 23 August 2026
Date of selection: 2 September 2026
🔗 Official Link
🗂️ Documents
⚠️ Important Notice
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