🇦🇹 Erasmus+ Training Course in Austria 🧭 Coaching and Mentoring Academy for Youth Workers 🤝

The quality of youth work in Europe depends on the quality of the conversations youth workers have with young people. Coaching and mentoring are things many youth workers already do by instinct, usually with goodwill, rarely with structure, and almost never with training. The Erasmus+ Training Course "Coaching and Mentoring Academy 1.0" was designed to close exactly that gap. Over six days in Vienna, 30 youth workers from 10 European countries build practical, structured competences in coaching and mentoring, and leave with a full toolkit they can use the week they get home.

What Makes This Course Different

This is not a course where you sit through theory. You will test every coaching and mentoring tool on yourself first, then design, facilitate and run your own sessions with real feedback from the group of 30 youth workers. The whole week is built on experiential learning and hands-on practice, not lectures.

What You Will Work On

🧠 Core coaching and mentoring models, including GROW, OSCAR and solution-focused coaching

🗣️ Non-violent communication and deep listening, so you can guide a young person through a real conversation rather than just delivering content to them

🔄 The 4Fs debriefing method and structured reflection tools

🎯 Goal setting, contracting a mentoring relationship, and knowing what to do when a mentoring relationship stalls

🤝 Designing, facilitating and testing your own coaching sessions, with peer feedback from youth workers across 10 countries

🗺️ If Austria is calling you, another one is open there too: Erasmus+ Training Course in 🇦🇹 Austria: Cohesive Youth Work for Community → https://youthworkshub.org/21863

What Is Covered

There is no participation fee, as the training is co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union. Accommodation, training, materials and all meals are covered directly by the host. Travel is reimbursed up to a fixed ceiling per country, against your original tickets, and only international travel is reimbursed. You book your own transport to and from Vienna, and the eligible costs are refunded after you have delivered your local follow-up session and submitted all original travel documents. Book nothing before your travel plan is approved in writing.

Who Can Apply

This call is open to residents of 🇦🇹 Austria, 🇭🇷 Croatia, 🇨🇿 Czechia, 🇫🇷 France, 🇩🇪 Germany, 🇬🇷 Greece, 🇭🇺 Hungary, 🇮🇹 Italy, 🇷🇸 Serbia and 🇸🇰 Slovakia, who will be sent by the partner organisation in their country. You should be between 24 and 35 years old, though exceptions between 36 and 39 may be agreed with the coordinator, normally for staff of the partner organisations. You need to communicate comfortably in English at B1 level or above, and be actively working with young people as a youth worker, trainer, facilitator, youth leader, educator or volunteer. Places are limited to three participants per country.

🎯 Prefer to focus on supporting organisations? Erasmus+ Training Course in 🇩🇪 Germany: Quality Support for ESC Organisations → https://youthworkshub.org/21554

What You Commit To

By applying, you agree to attend the full activity from 5 to 12 September 2026 and to engage in all preparation and follow-up. After Vienna you commit to delivering one coaching and mentoring session using tools from the training, with at least five young people aged 15 to 23, within five weeks of returning home. You also join and promote the public webinar on Monday 5 October at 18:00 CET, and bring at least one person from your own circle.

What You Leave With

📜 A Youthpass certificate, presented on the final day in Vienna

🏅 A micro-credential certificate

🧰 A full coaching and mentoring toolkit

🌍 A place in the ongoing Community of Practice

Timeframe and Practical Details

📆 Training course: 5 to 12 September 2026, in Vienna, Austria, including travel days

🧑‍🏫 Preparation runs from 20 August to 4 September 2026, in various stages

🔁 Follow-up: the public webinar takes place on 5 October, and local follow-up sessions are delivered by 17 October 2026

🌐 Language: English at B1 level or above

🏢 Hosting organisation: EMOTIC for Training and Consulting; coordinating organisation: Ukrainer in Bonn e.V.

How to Apply

Apply by filling in the online application form before the deadline. Once selected, you sign the participation agreement within three days, and then purchase your travel tickets within five days, only after your travel plan has been approved.