🇬🇷 Erasmus+ Training Course in Greece 🧰 Building Better Tools for Youth Exchanges 🤸

Description

Tools for Youth Exchanges (TYE) is an engaging and practical training experience, where you can explore, test, collaborate and construct tools for building better youth exchange projects.

About the Training

A Youth Exchange needs content — but behind the content are tools. TYE enables participants to explore, share, and adapt tools around group processes, learning, and involvement of young people, and how to facilitate these during a youth exchange.

Bring your current tools, half-finished ideas, and open questions — and get ready to take them apart, rebuild them, and make them stronger. Together, we will trade tools, explore and experience methods, and co-construct approaches that raise the quality of youth exchanges.

This is not about ready-made solutions. It’s about rolling up your sleeves, testing what you know, what works, fixing what doesn’t, and leaving with a toolbox that is richer, sharper, and ready for use.

Learning Approach

The TYE course is built on the past experiences of participants and offers non-formal leaning and training experiences, where doing, reflecting, giving feedback and reworking go hand in hand.

You will:

- Open up your toolbox and share your practice

- Try out tools in action, not just talk about them

- Break down methods to understand how and why they work

- Rebuild and adapt tools to fit your reality

- Co-create new “prototypes” to try out in future youth exchanges

What Can You Expect to Learn?

- To increase awareness of group processes and experience tools that facilitate group development

- To develop competences in designing and facilitating learning in youth exchanges

- To explore tools that support the learning process, including debriefing and recognition of learning.

- To explore tools and models that promote intercultural learning, youth participation and dialogue

- To explore and experience methodologies and approaches in support of realising a youth exchange project

- To prepare for quality Erasmus+, Youth Exchanges

Who Can Apply?

This training is for youth workers and youth leaders (voluntary or professional) who work directly with young people and are involved in, or planning, Erasmus+ Youth Exchanges.

Eligible participants include those who:

- Have experience organising and/or participating as a team member in an international youth exchange

- Have applied for youth exchange project funding and are awaiting an answer, or have a pending youth exchange

- Have applied for a youth exchange project and been rejected, and are planning to apply again

- Have an interest in preparing a quality application for a youth exchange within the new generation of the Erasmus+ programme

You should:

- Be at least 18 years old

- Have a good level of English (no translation provided — you should be able to understand and communicate comfortably in English)

- Be engaged in working with young people, with direct contact with young people already involved or wanting to get involved in an international youth exchange

- Be ready to actively build, test, and share

Important to know

Working language: English (no translation provided)

You will be by default accommodated in twin rooms (a great opportunity to get to know a colleague youth worker better), but if you have a specific reason to have a single room, we can cater for that.

A draft agenda is attached at the end of this call.

Activity details

Activity type

Training Course

Activity dates

2-7 November 2026

Location

Thessaloniki, Greece

Application deadline

Application deadline (24h UTC): 27 September 2026

Selection date

6 October 2026

Participants

24

Recommended for

Youth workers, Youth leaders

Working language

English

Organiser

Costs

Participation fee

This project is financed by the participating National Agencies (NAs) of the Erasmus+ and European Solidarity Corps 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

The hosting NA of this offer will organise the accommodation and cover 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.

Looking for participants from

34 countries can apply. The activity takes place in Thessaloniki, Greece.