Twelve Erasmus+ opportunities for youth workers are open right now across eleven countries, and they split into three very different formats: seven residential training courses, four online sessions you can join from your desk, and one youth exchange in Cyprus. At Youth Works Hub we opened all twelve listings and read them in full, including the parts that decide whether an application is worth your evening: exact dates, who is actually eligible, and what you pay. Deadlines run from 27 September through to 29 December, so this batch covers both the applications due this week and the ones you can plan calmly.
The training courses are where the substance is. Near Cluj-Napoca in the Carpathians, twenty-five youth workers spend nine days on storytelling as a working method, using myths, fairy tales, embodiment practice, the Way of Council, drumming and ritual. In Ioannina, Greece, the Hellenic National Agency runs a course that teaches inclusion through escape game mechanics and role play, tackling gender roles, sexual identities, disability and mental health through mythology. In Belgrade, three days on using KA153 mobility projects to strengthen youth work in your own municipality, aimed particularly at people working in remote or less accessible areas. In Zaragoza, partnership building around circular economy, art and social inclusion, with local visits and a clear goal of forming KA2 partnerships. In Slovakia, a three-day beginner course on designing European Solidarity Corps volunteering projects for young people with fewer opportunities. In Hollókő, Hungary, six days on using humour deliberately as a youth work tool. And in Hemmersheim, Germany, nine days on digital youth work, covering ICT skills, misinformation and youth activism online. If training courses are new to you, what an Erasmus+ Training Course actually involves explains the format, and what Erasmus+ covers financiallyexplains where the money comes from.
The four online opportunities are the easiest entry point in this batch because none of them require travel or time off. Ireland's National Agency, Léargas, is running a completely free Massive Open Online Course on the European Solidarity Corps from 5 October to 30 November, open to fifty-five countries, covering everything from volunteering project design and solidarity projects to grant applications, quality labels and humanitarian aid. Belgium's Democracy Reloading partnership runs four free ninety-minute webinars on youth participation in municipal decision making. Greece hosts a practice-based e-learning course combining storytelling with STEAM challenges, four live Zoom sessions plus offline hands-on work, for a €50 contribution. The United Kingdom offers a ten-week screenwriting programme for social change on a tiered fee from £25 to £300, where you choose the rate you can afford. The twelfth opportunity is different again: a nine-day youth exchange in Ayia Napa, Cyprus on fact-checking and media literacy, open to participants aged 18 to 30, though this particular call recruits only the Spanish partner group.
Costs vary more in this batch than usual, so read this part carefully before you commit. Six opportunities are free to attend: Ireland's MOOC, Belgium's webinar series, and the training courses in Spain, Germany and Cyprus. Romania asks a sliding-scale contribution of €60 to €120 where you decide the amount, Greece's e-learning asks €50, and the UK course runs a tiered fee from £25 to £300. Hungary is fully funded but deducts €25 from travel reimbursement for a shared bus, and requires participants to deliver three to four hours of colleague training and at least nine hours of youth workshops afterwards. The training courses in Greece, Serbia and Slovakia set participation fees through your own National Agency, so the answer depends on where you apply from. Travel on the residential courses follows Erasmus+ distance bands rather than ticket refunds, ranging from €28 to €1,735 depending on distance and green travel status, and how those distance bands work is worth understanding before you book anything.
In This Batch
1- 🇷🇴 Romania · Erasmus+ Training Course · 📅 27 Sep
2- 🇬🇷 Greece · Erasmus+ E-learning · 📅 30 Sep
3- 🇮🇪 Ireland · Erasmus+ E-learning · 📅 30 Sep
4- 🇨🇾 Cyprus · Erasmus+ Youth Exchange · 📅 30 Sep
5- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Erasmus+ E-learning · 📅 02 Oct
6- 🇧🇪 Belgium · Erasmus+ E-learning · 📅 04 Oct
7- 🇬🇷 Greece · Erasmus+ Training Course · 📅 11 Oct
8- 🇷🇸 Serbia · Erasmus+ Training Course · 📅 11 Oct
9- 🇪🇸 Spain · Erasmus+ Training Course · 📅 15 Oct
10- 🇸🇰 Slovakia · Erasmus+ Training Course · 📅 21 Oct
11- 🇭🇺 Hungary · Erasmus+ Training Course · 📅 24 Oct
12- 🇩🇪 Germany · Erasmus+ Training Course · 📅 29 Dec
What's in this batch:
7 Training Courses · 4 E-learning Sessions · 1 Youth Exchange · 11 Countries
🎓 Erasmus+ Opportunities
1. 🇷🇴 Reviving the Art of Storytelling in Youth Work, Romania
📅 Deadline: 27 September 2026
Near Cluj-Napoca in the Carpathian Mountains, 22 to 30 November 2026. Nine days for twenty-five participants on storytelling as a working method rather than a performance skill, built on myths and fairy tales and delivered through embodiment practices, deep imagery journeys, symbolic art, the Way of Council, singing, drumming, dancing, soul-poetry, community work and ritual. This is the most immersive course in the batch and the furthest from a classroom. Open to youth workers, trainers, youth leaders, project managers, volunteering mentors, coaches and researchers from ten countries: Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czechia, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Poland, Romania and Spain. Accommodation and food fully covered by the EU grant, travel reimbursed on country-specific limits between €255 and €375, participation fee on a sliding scale of €60 to €120 that you set yourself. Organised by Dreams for Life.
2. 🇬🇷 Storytelling and STEAM Challenges in Youth Work, Greece
📅 Deadline: 30 September 2026
Online via Zoom, 6 to 29 October 2026. A practice-based e-learning course that pairs storytelling with STEAM challenges, structured as four live Zoom sessions plus short asynchronous inputs, offline hands-on challenges, peer learning and reflection. No previous robotics, engineering or advanced STEAM experience is required, though the course is aimed at practitioners who already work with groups. Working language is English. Open to applicants worldwide. Participation contribution is €50; accommodation, food and travel do not apply as the course is fully online.
3. 🇮🇪 A Free Massive Open Online Course on the European Solidarity Corps, Ireland
📅 Deadline: 30 September 2026
Online on the HOP platform, 5 October to 30 November 2026. This is the widest-open opportunity in the batch and costs nothing at all. Léargas, Ireland's National Agency, runs a self-paced MOOC covering the essentials of the European Solidarity Corps: personal, organisational and community impact, recognition of learning, starting a volunteering project, solidarity projects, grant applications, quality labels, humanitarian aid and strategies for supporting young people, with networking built in. Open to participants from fifty-five countries, stretching well beyond the usual Programme Country list to include Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Jordan, Lebanon, Moldova, Morocco, Palestine, Tunisia and Ukraine among others. Completely free, with no travel or accommodation costs because nothing is in person.
4. 🇨🇾 Truth Seekers: Fact-Checking, Media Literacy and Critical Thinking, Cyprus
📅 Deadline: 30 September 2026
Ayia Napa, 8 to 16 October 2026. The only youth exchange in this batch, and the only opportunity aimed at young people rather than youth workers: nine days on critical thinking, media and digital literacy, fact-checking tools, digital safety and intercultural dialogue, with participants positioned as multipliers who take the methods home. Ages 18 to 30 plus one group leader with no age limit. Advanced English and prior Erasmus+ experience are not required, but availability for the full duration is. Important eligibility note: this specific call recruits the Spanish partner group only. Accommodation and meals fully covered, travel reimbursed up to €580 per person from Spain, Youthpass certificate on completion. Organised by Almaturia, applications through a Google Form.
5. 🇬🇧 Screenwriting for Social Change, United Kingdom
📅 Deadline: 02 October 2026
Online, 12 October to 14 December 2026. A ten-week programme combining creative writing, personal reflection, filmmaking and group dialogue, where participants develop authentic stories and work towards purpose-driven short films through facilitated sessions on character development and world-building. Longer and more demanding than a webinar, and correspondingly more involved. Open to applicants worldwide. The fee is tiered so you choose what you can pay: £300 solidarity rate, £250 standard, £125 reduced and £25 access rate, covering all materials, training content, coordination, activities and a certificate. Organised by Creative Writing for Social Change.
6. 🇧🇪 Youth Participation in Municipal Decision Making, Belgium
📅 Deadline: 04 October 2026
Online, with sessions on 7 October and 25 November 2026 remaining in this round. Four ninety-minute webinars from the Democracy Reloading partnership covering what makes a municipality genuinely supportive of young people, how to empower them in practice, how to build a strategy and how to manage youth participation in municipal decisions. Aimed at youth workers, youth leaders, youth policy makers and municipal youth policy officers from thirty-five countries. Completely free, with no travel or accommodation involved.
7. 🇬🇷 Escape Games, Role Play and Mythology for Inclusion, Greece
📅 Deadline: 11 October 2026
Ioannina, 16 to 21 November 2026. Six days using role playing, escape game mechanics and a gamified educational approach to work through inclusion topics that are hard to open up in conventional formats: gender roles, sexual identities, disability and mental health, framed through mythology and storytelling. Aimed at youth workers, trainers, youth leaders and inclusion and diversity officers from thirty-four countries. Accommodation and food covered by the hosting organisation; travel reimbursement and participation fee both vary by country and are decided by your National Agency. Organised by the Youth and Lifelong Learning Foundation, the Hellenic National Agency.
8. 🇷🇸 Using KA153 Mobility Projects to Strengthen Local Youth Work, Serbia
📅 Deadline: 11 October 2026
Belgrade, 8 to 10 December 2026. Three days on the quality development and implementation of KA153 Mobility of Youth Workers projects, with the specific angle of using them to raise the standard of youth work in your own town rather than treating mobility as an end in itself. Built around practical experience exchange between participants. Open to youth workers from NGOs and institutions and to municipal staff working in the youth sector across twenty-three countries, with particular encouragement for people working in remote or less accessible areas and those with fewer opportunities. Accommodation and meals provided by the Serbian National Agency; participation fee and travel reimbursement depend on your National Agency. Organised by Foundation Tempus.
9. 🇪🇸 Partnership Building Around Circular Economy, Art and Inclusion, Spain
📅 Deadline: 15 October 2026
Zaragoza, 23 to 28 November 2026. Six days of best-practice exchange on circular economy, art, social inclusion and non-formal education, delivered through interactive sessions and local visits, with an explicit outcome in mind: building strategic partnerships for Erasmus+ Key Action 2 projects in youth and adult education. Aimed at youth workers, trainers, project managers, facilitators and staff of organisations already involved in Erasmus+ projects, from thirty-four countries. No participation fee. Full accommodation and meals including breakfast, lunch and dinner. Travel reimbursed on distance bands from €28 up to €1,735 per round trip. Organised by Viaje a la Sostenibilidad.
10. 🇸🇰 Volunteering Projects for Young People With Fewer Opportunities, Slovakia
📅 Deadline: 21 October 2026
Slovakia, three days ending 7 December 2026. A beginner-level course on designing volunteering initiatives within the European Solidarity Corps framework specifically for disadvantaged young people, covering inclusion methodology, funding options and what international cooperation actually offers underserved groups. Aimed at youth workers, youth leaders, project managers, inclusion workers, social workers and refugee workers who work directly with disadvantaged young people, from thirty-nine countries including Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine. Accommodation in single rooms and meals included, travel reimbursement and participation fee through your National Agency, Youthpass certificate provided. Organised by SALTO Inclusion and Diversity.
11. 🇭🇺 Humour Is Serious Business: Using Humour to Engage Young People, Hungary
📅 Deadline: 24 October 2026
Hollókő, 27 November to 3 December 2026. Six days on humour as a deliberate youth work tool: how to engage young people through it, how to recognise different types of humour and where each one works, how humour shifts across cultures, and how to build humour-based activities you will actually run afterwards. Open to applicants aged 18 and over from nine countries: Hungary, Poland, Portugal, Armenia, Serbia, Latvia, Croatia, Montenegro and Spain. Accommodation and meals covered in shared housing, travel reimbursed between €0 and €417 by country with a €25 deduction for a shared bus. One condition to note before applying: participants commit to delivering three to four hours of colleague training and at least nine hours of youth workshops after the course. Organised by Magammal Viszek Alapítvány.
12. 🇩🇪 Digital Youth Work for Civic Engagement, Germany
📅 Deadline: 29 December 2026
Hemmersheim, 12 to 20 February 2027. The longest lead time in this batch by a wide margin, which makes it the one to bookmark rather than rush. Nine days of practical training in ICT skills, social media engagement and digital content creation, alongside critical media analysis, recognising misinformation and using platforms for youth activism, delivered through interactive, gamified and blended learning. Open to youth workers, youth leaders, youth coaches and aspiring youth workers from six countries: Cyprus, Czechia, Germany, Italy, Norway and Serbia. No participation fee, accommodation and food covered by the Erasmus+ grant, travel reimbursed between €285 and €417 depending on country, with green travel required for some. Organised by Brezn e.V.
Three things decide which of these twelve is right for you: your eligibility, your budget and how far ahead you can plan. Eligibility is the one that catches people out, because only five of the twelve open to the usual thirty-four Programme Countries. Ireland's MOOC reaches fifty-five countries and the two worldwide e-learning courses in Greece and the UK have no country restriction at all, but at the other end Germany accepts six countries, Hungary nine, Romania ten and Serbia twenty-three, and the Cyprus exchange recruits only the Spanish partner group. Check that line first and you will save yourself an evening.
On budget, six of the twelve cost nothing beyond getting there, and two of those require no travel at all. On timing, one closes on 27 September and three more on 30 September, so those four need attention immediately; the Spanish, Slovak and Hungarian courses give you into late October; and the German course does not close until 29 December for an activity in February 2027, which is the most comfortable planning window in the batch. Youth Works Hub reads every listing before publishing it and states the fee, the eligible countries and the real dates up front, precisely so that you can rule out the wrong ones in seconds instead of opening twelve pages. Which countries can apply to Erasmus+ covers the general eligibility rules if your residence and nationality differ. Pick the ones you qualify for, read the full listing, and apply before the window closes.
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