🇵🇹 Erasmus+ Training Course in Portugal 🌍 The Power of Non Formal Education 🎓

Description

Improving the impact of Non-Formal Education (NFE), principles and methods in creating empowerment opportunities for young people as real actors of the society (from local to Europe).

Main aim

To improve our educational impacts through experiencing a non-formal educational (NFE) process

Why this Training Course?

To stimulate the participants to feel and reflect about the power of non-formal education (NFE) by experiencing different educational methods.

To broaden our perception of NFE and its potential impacts in our different realities in Europe.

To explore the complementarity between formal and non-formal educational sector.

To affirm the political dimension of non-formal education, as a way to take an active role in society (empowerment process).

To reconsider our daily educational work practices, identify our challenges in order to improve the coherence between values we promote and our daily actions.

How it will be done?

In order to have real impacts, the participants experience an innovative approach, using a full immersion in the experiential learning cycle: doing/ feeling, reflecting, transferring...

The TC is not limited to the five days the participants spend together but starts before the actual encounter. Participants should therefore be well aware that they will be actively involved from the very beginning.

Besides the planned objectives and content of the activity, in informal moments, it is also an ideal opportunity to eventually find partners for future European projects.

A fundamental flow during the training

Experiencing: different educational settings, different methods (role play, simulation activity, exercises...).

Reflecting: on the methods and its impacts, on the power and limits of NFE, on building a pedagogical process…

Transferring: to the own reality of participants, in order to improve ways of working with young people.

Sharing: different perceptions, current situations and experiences.

Developing: the building capacity of the participants, by including them in the decision process of the project designing (participants will decide some sessions they feel they need to have) but also in the implementation of the program (“Power to the People – the People who are you” moments).

Activity details

Activity type

Training Course

Activity dates

8-13 December 2026

Location

tbc, Portugal

Application deadline

Application deadline (24h UTC): 22 October 2026

Selection date

2 November 2026

Participants

30

Recommended for

Youth workers, Trainers, Youth leaders, Youth project managers, Youth policy makers

Working language

English

Organiser

Costs

Participation fee

This project is financed by the participating National Agencies (NAs) of the Erasmus+ 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 of this offer will organise the accommodation and covers the costs for accommodation and food, during the activity,

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 tbc, Portugal.