Nineteen Erasmus+ training courses and online sessions for youth workers close between today and Sunday, spread across twelve countries, and after 27 September every single one of them is gone. Sixteen are residential training courses where travel, accommodation and food are covered under the Erasmus+ youth mobility rules, and three are free online webinars you can join from your desk. The themes run from street based youth work in Ljubljana to neuroinclusive practice with AI in Bulgaria, from fact checking in Cyprus to storytelling in a Romanian mountain retreat. At Youth Works Hub we track these calls daily, and this is the tightest deadline cluster of the month: five of the nineteen close on 24 September alone. If you have never taken part in one of these before, read what an Erasmus+ Training Course actually is first, because the format surprises people who expect a lecture hall.
Eight are worth reading before the rest. The Slovenian course in Ljubljana is festival style rather than classroom style, built around critical perspectives on community and street based youth work, and it ends with a field visit to local organisations. Bulgaria pairs cognitive diversity with practical AI use and sends you home having co-created a Neuro-Inclusive AI Pocket Guide. Cyprus is a full fact checking and digital resilience course, which is unusually concrete for this field, though it is open only to residents of Spain. Poland offers mindfulness, emotional regulation and burnout prevention, which matters if your job is holding space for other people all week. Latvia runs a five day outdoor leadership training built on nature, movement and reflection. Greece teaches the mechanics of designing Cooperation Partnerships under Key Action 2, which is the single most useful thing an NGO coordinator can learn this autumn. Türkiye hosts a partnership building event for accredited ESC and youth organisations that is open to applicants from more than fifty countries. And Romania closes the week with a storytelling retreat in the mountains, myths, tales and nature based practice included.
Three quick honesty notes before you apply. Eligibility on these calls is narrow and specific: some accept four countries, some accept fifty five, and two are limited to residents of a single country or pair. Read the eligibility line on each listing before you write anything. Three of the nineteen ask for a participant contribution rather than being free at the point of entry, and those amounts are stated plainly in the descriptions below. And the online sessions carry no travel at all, so they are the fastest thing here to say yes to. If you are unsure what Erasmus+ covers and what it does not, that guide explains the distance bands and the accommodation rules in plain language, and the umbrella guide to youth worker mobilityexplains why these courses have no upper age limit.
According to the European Commission, Erasmus+ mobility of youth workers (KA153) funds travel through fixed distance band contributions and covers accommodation, food and activity costs for the duration of the course. You are not paid a salary and you do not pay a course fee in the normal case: the host organisation holds the grant and covers your stay, while your travel is reimbursed up to the band amount for your distance. Three courses in this batch differ. Latvia asks a contribution of €150 to €250 from participants aged 25 and over and is free for those under 25, with travel not covered. Poland's nonviolent communication course asks €60. Romania's storytelling retreat uses a sliding scale of €60 to €120. The three online sessions are free with no travel involved. Every participant who completes one of these courses is entitled to a Youthpass certificate.
In This Batch
1- 🇨🇿 Czechia · Training Course · 📅 21 Sep
2- 🇲🇹 Malta · Training Course · 📅 22 Sep
3- 🇹🇷 Türkiye · Training Course · 📅 22 Sep
4- 🇪🇸 Spain · Online Webinar · 📅 22 Sep
5- 🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Online Webinar · 📅 23 Sep
6- 🇸🇮 Slovenia · Training Course · 📅 23 Sep
7- 🇷🇴 Romania · Online Webinar · 📅 24 Sep
8- 🇸🇮 Slovenia · Training Course · 📅 24 Sep
9- 🇨🇾 Cyprus · Training Course · 📅 24 Sep
10- 🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Training Course · 📅 24 Sep
11- 🇵🇹 Portugal · Training Course · 📅 24 Sep
12- 🇵🇱 Poland · Training Course · 📅 25 Sep
13- 🇱🇻 Latvia · Training Course · 📅 25 Sep
14- 🇬🇷 Greece · Training Course · 📅 25 Sep
15- 🇵🇱 Poland · Training Course · 📅 26 Sep
16- 🇷🇴 Romania · Training Course · 📅 27 Sep
17- 🇬🇷 Greece · Training Course · 📅 27 Sep
18- 🇷🇴 Romania · Training Course · 📅 27 Sep
19- 🇵🇱 Poland · Training Course · 📅 27 Sep
What's in this batch:
16 Erasmus+ Training Courses · 3 Online Webinars · 12 Countries · All Closing by 27 September
🎓 Erasmus+ Opportunities
1. 🇨🇿 Erasmus+ Training Course in Czechia 💡 Turning Ideas Into Real Youth Work Projects 🛠️
📅 Deadline: 21 September 2026
Learn how to turn your ideas into real youth work projects, from structuring a project to engaging supporters and receiving constructive feedback. Explore tools and good practice examples used by experienced organisations. Open to applicants from Czechia, France, Poland and Slovenia only.
2. 🇲🇹 Erasmus+ Training Course in Malta 🔍 Quality Assurance and Self Assessment for Youth Organisations 📋
📅 Deadline: 22 September 2026
Explore a Self-Assessment Tool for quality youth work, developed to strengthen reflective practice and organisational accountability. Exchange approaches with peers and build partnerships for future cooperation projects. Open to applicants from Bulgaria, Croatia, Latvia, Poland, Serbia and 29 more countries.
3. 🇹🇷 Erasmus+ Training Course in Türkiye 🤝 Partnership Building for Accredited ESC and Youth Organisations 🌍
📅 Deadline: 22 September 2026
Build strong, sustainable partnerships with fellow ESC and Youth accredited organisations from across Europe. Network, exchange experience and explore future cooperation in quality volunteering projects. Open to applicants from Austria, Bulgaria, Georgia, Lebanon, Ukraine and 50 more, but your organisation needs to hold ESC or Youth accreditation.
4. 🇪🇸 Erasmus+ Online E Learning by Spain 🗣️ Helping Young People Find Their Voice and Presence Online 🎥
📅 Deadline: 22 September 2026
Join an online session helping youth workers guide young people to overcome self-doubt, speak up and feel confident on camera. Explore practical video-based methods for building presence and safe spaces online. Open to applicants from Cyprus, Estonia, France, Germany and Spain only.
5. 🇧🇬 Erasmus+ Online E Learning by Bulgaria ⚖️ Human Rights and Communal Obligation in Democracy 🗳️
📅 Deadline: 23 September 2026
Join an interactive webinar exploring how human rights and communal obligations balance within healthy democracies. Reflect on justice, due process and civic participation through dialogue with participants across the world. Open to applicants worldwide, which makes this the most accessible listing in the batch.
6. 🇸🇮 Erasmus+ Training Course in Slovenia 🤝 Street Based Youth Work and Building Community ✊
📅 Deadline: 23 September 2026
Explore what community means today through critical perspectives from street-based youth work. Take part in this festival-style Training Course in Ljubljana, reflecting on inclusion, care, participation and responsibility, with a field visit to local organisations on the final day. Open to youth workers, trainers, youth leaders, coaches and researchers.
7. 🇷🇴 Erasmus+ Online E Learning by Romania ⚽ A Partner Matchmaking Session for Newcomers in Sport 🤝
📅 Deadline: 24 September 2026
Never applied for Erasmus+ Sport before? Join a speed-dating style networking session to connect with potential partner organisations and get live answers from National Agency officers. Built specifically for first-time applicants. Open to applicants from Austria, Bulgaria, Georgia, Lithuania, Ukraine and 29 more.
8. 🇸🇮 Erasmus+ Training Course in Slovenia 🤲 Sustainable and Inclusive Volunteer Management 📚
📅 Deadline: 24 September 2026
Develop competences across the full volunteer journey, recruitment, onboarding, mentoring and long-term engagement. Share good practices with fellow volunteer coordinators in a supportive, experiential learning space. Open to applicants from Greece, Italy, Latvia and Slovenia only.
9. 🇨🇾 Erasmus+ Training Course in Cyprus 🔍 Fact Checking Media Literacy and Digital Resilience 📱
📅 Deadline: 24 September 2026
Master practical fact-checking tools, strengthen critical thinking and boost your digital resilience alongside young people from across Europe. Learn to spot misinformation and become an active multiplier of truth in your community. Open to residents of Spain only.
10. 🇧🇬 Erasmus+ Training Course in Bulgaria 🧠 Neuroinclusive Youth Work and the Responsible Use of AI 🤖
📅 Deadline: 24 September 2026
Explore cognitive diversity and neuroinclusive youth work practices, and learn how AI can help design more accessible, engaging activities. Redesign real youth-work activities and help co-create a practical Neuro-Inclusive AI Pocket Guide that outlives the course. Open to applicants from Greece, Italy, Latvia, Serbia, Spain and 3 more.
11. 🇵🇹 Erasmus+ Training Course in Portugal 💻 Future Ready Youth Work in a Digital and Diverse World 🌍
📅 Deadline: 24 September 2026
Strengthen your capacity to support young people in an increasingly digital, diverse and rapidly changing world through this international Training Course in Santa Maria da Feira. Explore digital tools and inclusive practices to become a more prepared youth worker for this era. Open to residents of France and Portugal, aged 20 and over.
12. 🇵🇱 Erasmus+ Training Course in Poland 🌿 Embodied Belonging Movement and Nature Connection 🤲
📅 Deadline: 25 September 2026
Explore embodiment, movement and nature connection to deepen self-awareness and a sense of belonging. Learn practical, body-based approaches for creating welcoming spaces for young people in your youth work. Open to applicants from Bulgaria, Croatia, Denmark, Latvia, Romania and 29 more countries.
13. 🇱🇻 Erasmus+ Training Course in Latvia 🌲 Outdoor Leadership Resilience and Self Development 💪
📅 Deadline: 25 September 2026
Step out of your comfort zone in this 5-day outdoor leadership training combining nature, movement and reflection to build resilience and prevent burnout. Contribution: free for participants under 25, €150 to €250 for everyone else, and travel is not covered. Open to applicants from Ukraine, United Kingdom, Hungary, Malta, Slovakia and 31 more.
14. 🇬🇷 Erasmus+ Training Course in Greece 🧩 An Introduction to Cooperation Partnerships Under KA2 📑
📅 Deadline: 25 September 2026
Learn the essentials of designing Erasmus+ Cooperation Partnerships under Key Action 2, from building a coherent project structure to meeting quality requirements. Network with peers and explore future partnership opportunities. This is the course to take if your organisation wants to lead a KA2 project rather than join one. Open to applicants from Bulgaria, Croatia, Latvia, Poland, Romania and 29 more.
15. 🇵🇱 Erasmus+ Training Course in Poland 🧘 Mindfulness Resilience and Mental Wellbeing in Youth Work 💚
📅 Deadline: 26 September 2026
Build practical mindfulness and resilience tools to support young people's mental wellbeing and manage everyday stress. Explore emotional regulation and self-awareness through experiential, non-formal education methods. Open to applicants from Bulgaria, Czechia, Hungary, Malta, Romania and 2 more only.
16. 🇷🇴 Erasmus+ Training Course in Romania 🧭 Writing Projects That Include NEET Young People 📝
📅 Deadline: 27 September 2026
Learn how to write effective Erasmus+ project applications supporting NEET youth inclusion and development opportunities. Strengthen your organisation's capacity to empower young people as active citizens through international cooperation. Open to applicants from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine and 33 more countries, which is one of the widest eligibility lists here.
17. 🇬🇷 Erasmus+ Training Course in Greece 🧰 Building Better Tools for Youth Exchanges 🤸
📅 Deadline: 27 September 2026
Explore, test and co-create practical tools for designing better youth exchange projects. Learn hands-on methods for group processes, intercultural learning and youth participation. You leave with methods you can run next month, not theory.Open to applicants from Bulgaria, Cyprus, Croatia, Luxembourg, Romania and 29 more.
18. 🇷🇴 Erasmus+ Training Course in Romania 📖 Reviving the Art of Storytelling in Youth Work 🔥
📅 Deadline: 27 September 2026
Rediscover the ancient art of storytelling through myths, tales and nature-based practices in a mountain retreat. Awaken your inner storyteller and explore how narrative can inspire personal and social change in youth work. Contribution: €60 to €120 on a sliding scale. Open to applicants from Bulgaria, Cyprus, Hungary, Ireland, Latvia and 5 more.
19. 🇵🇱 Erasmus+ Training Course in Poland 🕊️ Embodied Nonviolent Communication and Empathy 🫂
📅 Deadline: 27 September 2026
Explore Nonviolent Communication as an embodied practice, combining movement, reflection and authentic connection to build self-awareness and empathy. Learn to navigate conflict and relationships with greater openness and care. Contribution: €60. Open to applicants from Austria, Denmark, Finland, Lithuania, Malta and 29 more.
This is the last week of September and it is carrying nineteen Erasmus+ deadlines at once. One closes today in Czechia, three close tomorrow in Malta, Türkiye and online with Spain, two on 23 September, five on 24 September, three on 25 September, one on 26 September and four on Sunday 27 September. Nothing here rolls over into October. Poland and Romania each host three of these, Bulgaria, Greece and Slovenia two each, and Cyprus, Czechia, Latvia, Malta, Portugal, Spain and Türkiye one each. If you are a youth worker, trainer, volunteer coordinator or NGO project officer, there is almost certainly something on this list that matches what you are trying to build this autumn.
Pick by what you need rather than by where you fancy going. Organisations trying to lead their first Key Action 2 project should go straight to the Greek course on Cooperation Partnerships. Coordinators drowning in volunteer turnover should look at Slovenia. Anyone writing applications around NEET young people has Romania. Teams that want to work with neurodivergent young people, or who keep being told to use AI without being told how, have Bulgaria. And if the honest answer is that you are the one who needs looking after, Poland's mindfulness and resilience course and Latvia's outdoor leadership training are both about preventing burnout rather than powering through it. Youth Works Hub lists the eligibility line on every one of these, because a beautiful course you cannot apply to is a waste of your evening.
Two practical things decide whether you get in. The first is the application itself: these calls are competitive, selection is made by the host organisation and the National Agency, and a specific, honest motivation beats a polished generic one every time, which is why ten practical tips for a stronger Erasmus+ application is worth twenty minutes before you write. The second is your own record: every completed course entitles you to a Youthpass certificate, the official recognition tool of the Erasmus+ youth programme, and stacking three or four of those turns a scattered set of weeks abroad into a documented professional profile. Check the eligibility line, open the listing that fits, and send your application before Sunday, because on Monday this entire list is history.
Prefer a longer placement to a week long course? Youth Works Hub also lists Erasmus+ funded internships and traineeships across Europe → Internship
