🇷🇴 Erasmus+ Training Course in Romania 🤝 Contact Seminar for Strategy and New Partnerships 🧭

Description

A contact seminar for youth workers and NGO decision-makers: organisational identity, target group, long-term planning, real follow-up, and new European partnerships. Iasi, Romania, 16-20 November 2026. Fully funded, 1-2 participants per country.

This contact seminar is for people working in youth work and non-formal education who carry enough responsibility to act on what they learn, and who want their organisation to come out of it clearer and better connected.

It is not a training course on a single topic. It is a working space: every session is designed to produce something you take home and use.

Programme

Day 1 - Who we are. Getting to know each other, partner organisation presentations and best-practice exchange. Defining your target group by categories, a demographic analysis of the community your organisation actually serves, and clarifying purpose, mission, values and working directions so that the whole team can use them.

Day 2 - Where we are going. Building a long-term plan with impact: setting objectives, laying the foundation, designing for results you can measure. Then follow-up and dissemination done for real, rather than written for the report and forgotten.

Day 3 - Who we go with. Meeting members of the local community in Iasi: NGOs, public institutions and youth initiatives. Then mapping the room, identifying common strategies within the consortium, and building new objectives and partnerships at European level.

Sessions run 09:30-13:00 and 15:00-18:30. Evenings are reserved for intercultural exchange and informal networking.

What you take home

A clarified mission, set of values and target-group profile

A draft long-term plan with objectives and a timeline

A working follow-up and dissemination method

At least one concrete partnership idea with another organisation

A shared consortium map of common objectives for future applications

Youthpass certificate

Who should apply

People active in youth work and non-formal education who are in a position to act on the results:

Legal representatives

Project managers

Board members

Youth workers who know how their organisation actually runs

English B2 or above, availability for the full duration, and a mandate to take or influence decisions about your organisation's strategy. There is no age limit: what matters is the role you hold and your ability to bring the results back into your organisation.

Practical information

Dates: 16-20 November 2026 (arrival 16, working days 17-19, departure 20)

Venue: Hotel Coral, Iasi, Romania

Participants: organisations from European Union member states, 1-2 per country

Working language: English

Accommodation, meals, activities and materials are covered 100%. There is no participation fee. Travel is reimbursed up to the Erasmus+ distance band ceiling, from 28 EUR to 785 EUR per person depending on distance and whether you travel green.

How to apply

Fill in the nomination form: https://forms.gle/DKRCFHdE1X3L7JR86

One submission per participant. If your organisation nominates two people, please fill it twice.

Deadline: 30 September 2026.

All applications received by the deadline are reviewed together, so there is no advantage in applying first. We confirm places by e-mail. Please do not book any travel before your place is confirmed.

Organiser

ACS Forza Junior Costuleni, a youth organisation in Iasi, Romania, working since 2014 with children and young people from vulnerable groups through sport and non-formal education.

acsfjc@gmail.com | WhatsApp +40 758 544 488

Project code: 2025-1-RO01-KA151-YOU-000300091 | Activity: SM-PDA-P

Co-funded by the European Union

Activity details

Activity type

Partnership-building Activity

Activity dates

17-19 November 2026

Location

Iasi, Romania

Application deadline

12 October 2026

Selection date

17 October 2026

Participants

22

Recommended for

Youth workers, Trainers, Youth leaders, Youth project managers

Working language

English

Organiser

Costs

Participation fee

No fee

Accommodation and food

Accommodation and food are organised by the hosting organisation and covered 100% by the project. The price for participants is 0 EUR. There is no participation fee. Participants stay at Hotel Coral in Iasi, which is also the venue, so there is no daily commute. What is included: Four nights, from arrival on 16 November to departure on 20 November 2026 Rooms shared by 2-3 participants, each with a private shower; towels provided Three meals a day plus two coffee breaks, served on site at the hotel restaurant From dinner on the arrival day to breakfast on the departure day Free Wi-Fi and a seminar room with projector Dietary requirements (vegetarian, vegan, no pork, gluten-free, lactose-free, allergies) are collected in the application form and arranged with the hotel in advance, at no extra cost. Not covered: extra nights before 16 November or after 20 November, personal expenses, and drinks outside the meals included. Participants who wish to arrive earlier or stay longer can book directly with the hotel at their own cost.

Travel reimbursement

Travel is reimbursed up to a fixed maximum per participant, which depends on the distance between your departure city and Iasi. The amounts below are the actual maximums we will pay, not a reference to the calculator. Each participant may claim up to the amount listed for their country. Two rates apply. The green travel rate is higher and applies when the main part of the journey is made by bus, train or car-pooling rather than by plane. Most countries: up to 309 EUR standard, or 417 EUR green travel Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden. Ireland and Spain: up to 395 EUR standard, or 535 EUR green travel Portugal: up to 580 EUR standard, or 785 EUR green travel These figures are based on the distance from each capital city to Iasi. If you depart from a city significantly closer to or further from Iasi than your capital, your band may differ. Write to us before booking and we will confirm your exact maximum. How reimbursement works Book your travel only after your place has been confirmed by e-mail. Tickets bought before confirmation cannot be reimbursed. Keep every original ticket, invoice and boarding pass, outbound and return, including local transport to and from the airport or station. Reimbursement is made by bank transfer after the mobility, once the follow-up and dissemination activities have been completed. Reimbursement covers actual costs up to the ceiling for your country. If your travel costs less, we reimburse what you actually spent. Not reimbursed: taxi, Uber and Bolt inside Iasi (public transport costs around 0.80 EUR per two-hour ticket), travel insurance, visa costs, and any amount above the ceiling for your country.

Looking for participants from

34 countries can apply. The activity takes place in Iasi, Romania.