🇧🇪 Erasmus+ Training Course in Belgium 🏳️‍🌈 Faith Identity and Open Dialogue for Inclusive Youth Work 🕊️

Description

Intersect in Diversity brings youth workers together to explore identity, queer communities, and faith, building empathy, dialogue skills, and inclusive support for LGBTQI+ youth across diverse backgrounds.

Intersect in diversity has been on the works for the past 12 months, and we are proud to present this project to you. Together, Bosco Base (Belgium), Maricuir (Spain), Salesianische Jugendbewegung Österreich (Austria).

The aim of this international activity was very clear from the beginning, creating a space where the background of our organisations would feel identified, but also challenged, creating then a conversation that explores the relationship between identity- queer communities- and faith.

Through this mobility of youth workers, we aim to equip professionals with practical tools, methods, and soft skills that foster understanding and empathy among people from diverse faith traditions and LGBTQI+ backgrounds. The programme emphasises dialogue-based learning, active listening, and conflict-sensitive communication to help youth workers facilitate inclusive conversations within their own communities.

An essential component of this initiative is bringing together youth workers who are engaged in faith-based organisations with those who are not, ensuring a broad spectrum of perspectives. By doing so, we strive to create an open, respectful, and safe space where participants can share experiences, explore challenges, and learn how to support young people who may be navigating tensions between their faith and their sexual or gender identity.

Youth workers, educators, mentors and community leaders from diverse faith traditions and LGBTQIA+ contexts. Participants should have direct experience working with young people and motivation to apply the tools in their organisations.

There is no age limit for this Training Course, but everyone must be +18.

Only residents of EU Member States and Third Countries associated with the Programme are eligible to participate.

Bring understanding to the intersection between the concepts of faith, gender identity and sexual and relational orientation.

Support participants in freely discovering their identity and accepting its different facets.

Provide and build practical tools with/for the participants to facilitate open dialogue and safe spaces for inter-faith conversations and LGBTQ+ perspectives.

Activity details

Activity type

Training Course

Activity dates

16-23 November 2026

Location

Brugge, Belgium - FL

Application deadline

6 October 2026

Selection date

10 October 2026

Participants

26

Recommended for

Youth workers

Working language

English

Organiser

Costs

Participation fee

No

Accommodation and food

Board, lodging, local transportation and programme implementation costs will be covered upon full participation in the event.

Travel reimbursement

Travel costs will be reimbursed based on the actual costs, not exceeding the lump sums based on the travel distances, in Euro: 10-99 km - 28 / green travel - 56 100-499 km - 211/ green travel - 285 500-1999 km - 309/ green travel 417 2000-2999 km - 395/ green travel 535 Only justified costs will be eligible for reimbursement. If travel costs exceed the lump sums, the remaining costs shall be covered by the participant. Participants may opt for the “green travel” options, which come with a slightly higher travel budget. Please contact the organiser for more information about eligible green travel options.

Looking for participants from

34 countries can apply. The activity takes place in Brugge, Belgium - FL.