🇫🇷 Erasmus+ Training Course in France ⚖️ Shared Governance and Power Dynamics in Youth Organisations 🔄

Description

Learn more about an organisation coordinated by its employees, and explore the topics of power, governance and transformation in Youth organisations.

In 2023, after 10 years of cultivating participation and reflection around power and decision making , Hors Pistes transformed its governance system into a collective coordination inspired by sociocratic principles.

3 years later, we acknowledge the need of sharing with the outside world the experiences (success and failures) and all the questions that came-up throughout this experiment.

With other curious and motivated people working in the youth field we’d like to explore the topics of shared governance and transformation of hierarchical structures.

We want to open a space to question the connection between the values of youth work and the real organisations’ internal practices and power dynamics. We want to explore the sparks, the beauty but also the contradictions and limits of this type of system.

Objectives : - Reflect on different views of power and governance - Exchange on different forms of participation and group dynamics - Discover the collective coordination of Hors Pistes, based on sociocratic principles - Share different experiences of governance - Experience different methods to support decision-making in groups - Discuss the implication of youth in the governance of organisations - Identify potential transformation in your own organisation’s system

Activity details

Activity type

Training Course

Activity dates

18-26 March 2027

Location

Marseille, France

Application deadline

30 November 2026

Selection date

11 December 2026

Participants

24

Recommended for

Youth workers, Trainers, Youth leaders, Youth project managers, Volunteering mentors

Working language

English

Organiser

Costs

Participation fee

There is no participation fee for this activity.

Accommodation and food

The training will take place in a youth hostel in Marseille or in the surroundings. Participants will be accommodated in shared rooms (dorms). All the meals will be vegetarian, and the group will contribute to the community tasks. We will do our best to adapt the settings and program activities to support the participation of everyone, taking into account specific needs of each participant.

Travel reimbursement

We will reimburse the travel costs based on the cheapest possibilities, e.g. second class railway tickets, economy class flights etc., within the provided limit, from place of residency to the venue of the activity and return, based on the rates of the “distance calculator” of the EuropeanCommission https://erasmus-plus.ec.europa.eu/de/resources-and-tools/distance-calculator and related regulations as follows (green travel possible) : 10-99 km: 28,00 EUR / 56,00 EUR 100-499 km: 211,00 EUR / 285,00 EUR 500-1999 km: 309,00 EUR / 417,00 EUR 2000-2999 km: 395,00 EUR / 535,00 EUR 3000-3999 km: 580,00 EUR / 785,00 EUR

Looking for participants from

34 countries can apply. The activity takes place in Marseille, France.