🔑 Key Information
Activity ⭐️ Title
Unleashing Creativity: From Lens to Life
Activity 🔶 Type | 📆 Dates | 📍Location
Training Course
17-26 October 2026 | Luxembourg
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❗️What Is This Training About?
Erasmus+ KA153 training course for youth workers exploring photography, creativity and Photovoice as practical tools for youth work, visual storytelling, participation and project visibility.
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ℹ️ Description About The Opportunity
Unleashing Creativity: From Lens to Life is an Erasmus+ KA153 Training Course for youth workers, facilitators, trainers and educators who are active in the field of youth work and non-formal learning.
The training explores how photography and creative methods can be used as practical tools in youth work. The project focuses on two main aspects:
- using photography to improve the visibility and communication of youth work,
- using participatory photography to help young people express their experiences, ideas and perspectives.
Throughout the training, participants will take part in practical and non-formal learning activities covering photography basics, composition, visual storytelling, creativity methods, Photovoice, the Six Thinking Hats method, digital communication, media literacy and ethical photography.
Participants will also explore how photography can support youth participation, advocacy and self-expression, particularly for young people who may find verbal communication difficult. The programme connects these methods with the European Youth Goals, the ETS Competence Model for Youth Workers, YOCOMO and Youthpass.
The training is strongly based on learning by doing. Participants will experience the full process themselves: developing ideas, taking photographs, reflecting on their meaning, selecting and editing images, creating visual narratives and preparing their work for presentation.
A central part of the programme will be Photovoice, a participatory photography method that allows young people to document issues that are important to them and use images as a starting point for dialogue and participation. During the mobility, participants will experience the complete Photovoice process so that they can later apply the method in their own youth work.
The training will culminate in a photography exhibition, where participants will present selected work created during the mobility. After returning home, participants are expected to transfer some of the methods into their local youth work and organise a photography or Photovoice activity with young people, ideally leading to a small physical or digital exhibition.
The activity is intended for people who:
- are 18 years or older
- are active youth workers, facilitators, trainers, educators, mentors or otherwise regularly work with young people
- are involved in non-formal learning or youth work
- are interested in photography, creativity and visual communication
- want to improve how they communicate and present their youth work
- are interested in using photography as a method for youth participation and expression
- are willing to actively participate in the full programme
- have a good working level of English
- are prepared to transfer the methods into their local youth work after the training
Previous professional photography experience is not required. The training is designed for participants with different levels of experience and will focus on practical methods that can realistically be used in everyday youth work.
Elligible partner countries:
Luxembourg, Türkiye, Serbia, Poland, Belgium, Spain, France, Estonia, Portugal and the Netherlands.
Practical information
Accommodation and meals are provided during the project.
Travel costs are reimbursed according to Erasmus+ rules and the applicable distance bands.
Participants should bring a smartphone or camera if possible. Each national group should also have access to at least one laptop for editing activities.
Training overview
This Training Course is
for 30 participants
from Belgium - DE, Belgium - FL, Belgium - FR, Estonia, France, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Serbia, Spain, Türkiye
and recommended for
Youth workers, Trainers, Educators
Accessibility info:
This activity and venue place are accessible to people with disabilities.
Working language(s):
English
Organiser:
AREAAA (Youth NGO)
AREAAA a.s.b.l. is a Luxembourg-based non-profit organisation founded in 2022. The organisation develops local and international activities around creativity, practical learning and the exchange of skills and experiences between people from different professional and cultural backgrounds.
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📥 Contact
Contact for questions:
Rick Brill
Facebook: https://www.instagram.com/areaaa_luxembourg/
Website: https://forms.gle/iBQfyh1JvvKAQ2Wj6
E-Mail:
Phone: +352691735967
💶 Costs
Participation fee
AREAAA does not charge a participation fee for this training activity
Accommodation and food
AREAAA will organise and provide accommodation, three meals per day and coffee breaks for the full duration of the training. There is no cost for participants.
Travel reimbursement
Yes. Travel costs will be reimbursed by AREAAA based on actual travel expenses and upon submission of the required travel documents, up to the following maximum amounts per participant:
- Luxembourg:€0
- Türkiye: €395
- Serbia: €309
- Spain: €309
- Portugal: €309
- Poland: €309
- Estonia: €309
- France:up to €417 with green travel
- Netherlands: up to €285 with green travel
- Belgium: up to €285 with green travel
Green travel applies to participants travelling from France, Belgium and the Netherlands by eligible sustainable means such as train, bus or carpooling. Any costs exceeding the maximum reimbursable amount must be covered by the participant.
📜 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/what-is-youthpass
⚠️ Important Dates
Application deadline (24h UTC): 2 September 2026
Date of selection: 17 September 2026
🔗 Official Link
Apply here:
https://forms.gle/iBQfyh1JvvKAQ2Wj6
🗂️ Documents
⚠️ Important Notice
Youth Works Hub is not the organiser, partner, or representative of the listed projects. This listing is shared for information only, based on details from the source. Deadlines, eligible countries, dates, and other details may change or be withdrawn at any time, and all funding, reimbursements, and allowances are set by the project coordinator or National Agency. Applications go directly to the coordinator or hosting organisation through the official link. Listings may include third-party links (ESC Portal, infopacks, forms) that Youth Works Hub does not control. Always verify the details on the official project page before applying.
