🔑 Key Information
Activity ⭐️ Title
EGL-DR – Empowerment Youth, from Policy to Practice: How Municipal Approaches Can Drive Transformative Change Study Visit
🇪🇺 What is Erasmus+? Erasmus+ is the EU's programme for education, training, youth and sport, with a €26.2 billion budget for 2021–2027. It funds study abroad, internships, youth exchanges, training courses and youth worker mobility. This overview covers who is eligible, every activity type and what's funded. 👉 https://youthworkshub.org/erasmusplus
Activity 🔶 Type | 📆 Dates | 📍Location
Study Visit
23-27 November 2026 | Strasbourg, France
❗️What Is This Training About?
How can municipalities move from simply asking young people for their opinion to actually designing and managing urban spaces and youth policies together?
✅ Who can apply for Erasmus+ and ESC? Eligibility depends on activity: ages 13–30 for most Erasmus+ youth activities and 18–30 for ESC volunteering (up to 35 for humanitarian aid), plus country and residence rules. This guide covers roles, inclusion support, language needs and the profile coordinators look for. 👉 https://youthworkshub.org/whocanapply
ℹ️ Description About The Opportunity
When developing local neighborhoods and policies, municipalities need to turn their plans into practical action. To make sure these projects actually work and last, young people need to be actively involved
This study visit in Strasbourg is a hands-on opportunity to see how this works in real life. We will visit local projects that share governance with young people, giving you fresh ideas and practical tools to use back in your own town or city.
Main Objectives
Understand co-design processes: See how local research, neighborhood work, and workshops help create projects that young people actually want and need, both in official youth spaces and informal hangouts.
Discover shared governance models: Learn how youth councils, co-managed youth work practices and youth participatory budgets are set up and run in practice.
Map local partners: Find out how to get municipalities, sports clubs, cultural centers, and local groups to work together effectively.
Explore new ways of working: Visit youth labs and creative hubs, and try out interactive methods.
Share daily advocacy practices: Learn how young people and city staff can work together to pitch, showcase, and run local youth projects.
Topics:
Youth policy, youth participation
Language of the Study Visit:
All communication during the study visit will be in English; therefore, applicants must have a sufficient level of English to be able to express themselves freely.
Who is this for?
To make sure this Study Visit has a real impact back home, we are looking for local duos from the same municipality. We want to bring together 26 participants from programme countries, aiming for a balanced mix of half young people and half municipal staff.
You should apply together as a pair:
A young person or young leader (18+ years old) who is active in the local community.
A municipal officer or city worker who is responsible for youth policy in the same municipality.
Our program is practical and based on learning from each other, rooted in non-formal pedagogy. The program will include site visits in Strasbourg and non-formal workshops to get a better understanding about participatory youth work practices.
Practical Information
Arrival: Monday, 23 November 2026 (including a welcome evening)
Working Days: 24, 25, and 26 November 2026 (full days)
Departure: Friday, 27 November 2026 (after breakfast)
Accommodation: participants will sleep in Ciarus Youth Hostel or Ibis Hotel, Strasbourg
📘 What is Erasmus+? (in-depth) Erasmus+ has run since 1987 and has had over 13 million participants, funding four main activities for young people. This pillar guide covers its history, funding, research-backed benefits, the full application process and an FAQ. 👉 https://youthworkshub.org/what-is-erasmus-plus
Training overview
This Study Visit is
for 26 participants
from Erasmus+ Youth Programme countries 
and recommended for
Youth workers, Youth leaders, Youth project managers, Youth policy makers, Municipalities (only)
Working language(s):
english
Organiser:
Agence du Service Civique (National Agency)
💡 How do you prepare a strong Erasmus+ or ESC application? Read the call carefully, write specific motivation, show skills with examples, and state clear learning goals. This guide gives 10 practical tips plus the common mistakes that lead to rejection. 👉 https://youthworkshub.org/erasmus-application-tips
📥 Contact
Contact for questions:
Anne Rolland, TCA Officer
E-Mail:
Phone: +33
💶 Costs
Participation fee
This project is financed by the participating National Agencies (NAs) of the Erasmus+ Youth in Action Programme. The participation fee varies from country to country. Please contact your National Agency or SALTO Resource Centre (SALTO) to learn more about the participation fee for participants from your country.
Accommodation and food
Unless specified otherwise, the hosting NA or SALTO of this offer will organise the accommodation and covers the costs for accommodation and food.
Travel reimbursement
Please contact your NA or SALTO in order to know whether they would support your travel costs. If yes, after being selected, get in touch with your NA or SALTO again to learn more about the overall procedure to arrange the booking of your travel tickets and the reimbursement of your travel expenses.
📜 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): 13 September 2026
Date of selection: 25 September 2026
🎓 What is an Erasmus+ Training Course? A Training Course is a short funded course (5–10 days) for youth workers, educators and NGO staff to build skills through non-formal education. This guide explains who can join, what's covered and how it differs from a Youth Exchange. 👉 https://youthworkshub.org/trainingcourse
🔗 Official Link
⚖️ What's the difference between ESC and Erasmus+? The ESC is for volunteering and solidarity, while Erasmus+ is broad learning mobility (study, training, youth exchanges). This guide compares age, funding, duration and application route, and includes a "choose this if…" decision guide. 👉 https://youthworkshub.org/esc-vs-erasmus
🎂 What are the age limits for Erasmus+ and ESC? Youth Exchanges are 13–30, ESC volunteering is 18–30 (35 for humanitarian aid), and training, youth worker mobility and study/traineeships have no upper age limit. This guide breaks down every activity and how age is counted (at the start date). 👉 https://youthworkshub.org/erasmus-age-limits
💶 What costs does Erasmus+ cover? For youth activities (KA152–154) it covers travel by distance band, individual support, organisational support, preparation, inclusion support up to 100% and exceptional costs. This 2026 guide details each item and what Erasmus+ does not cover. 👉 https://youthworkshub.org/what-erasmus-covers
