🇷🇴 Erasmus+ Seminar in Romania 🧩 OneWay: Inclusive Youth Work Practice and an International Conference for Youth Workers With A4ACTION 🎤

OneWay is an Erasmus+ seminar on youth inclusion for youth workers aged 18+, held in Predeal, Brașov County (Romania) from 19 to 27 November 2026, with applications open until 12 November 2026. It is aimed at people who work with young people with fewer opportunities and want to make their daily work more inclusive. At Youth Works Hub, we reviewed the full infopack and set out below what the seminar involves, what it covers and what you need to do.

Why This Seminar Focuses on Inclusion

OneWay is designed for people whose daily work touches young people with fewer opportunities. Its primary goal is to strengthen the capacity of youth workers to foster the social inclusion, active participation and empowerment of young people. The seminar pursues that goal through:

🧩 Inclusive youth work practices

🌐 Intercultural learning

🤝 International cooperation

As an Erasmus+ seminar, it brings practitioners together for an international learning experience in which they share real work and take concrete ideas home.

What You Will Learn by the End of the Seminar

🔍 Understanding exclusion: naming the main barriers young people with fewer opportunities face (economic, social, geographical, educational, cultural, health, disability) and comparing how these show up in participants' own countries.

🔄 Learning from each other: presenting a good practice from your own work and adapting at least one practice from another country to your local context.

🛠️ Designing inclusive activities: creating and testing with peers a non-formal education activity that is accessible, participatory and adapted to young people with fewer opportunities.

🪞 Reflecting on your own practice: recognising your assumptions and habits that can lead to exclusion, and choosing concrete changes for your daily work.

🔗 Connecting and cooperating: building contacts with youth workers, experts and stakeholders, including through the public conference, and developing at least one follow-up idea, such as a local action, a dissemination activity or a future project.

Which Youth Workers Can Take Part

The mobility brings together 25 youth workers, all over the age of 18, who are eager to take part in an international learning experience. Each partner organisation sends a group of 1–3 participants. The participant countries for this call are Romania, Italy, Latvia, France, Lithuania, Portugal and Spain.

The seminar is open to:

🎂 People aged 18+

👥 Youth workers, teachers, educators, social workers, mentors, coaches of youth initiatives and solidarity projects, volunteer coordinators, trainers or facilitators

💡 People with experience in working with young people who are willing to share it with other youth workers and learn a different approach

🌱 People with less experience who want to learn and improve their skills, to better support the inclusion of the young people they work with

Our guide to the role of youth workers explains this profile in more detail.

What the Organisers Expect From Every Participant

🗣️ Being able to understand and express yourself in English

💬 Being willing to share knowledge, ideas and useful tips

📚 Being willing to learn from others

⏱️ Committing to attend for the full duration of the event

📣 Committing to a follow-up or dissemination activity in your country after the seminar

A Public Conference on Youth Inclusion Inside the Programme

On 25 November 2026, as part of the seminar, A4ACTION and its partners host an international conference on youth inclusion. Guests from outside the organisations are also welcome: youth workers, experts, representatives of local institutions and other organisations working with young people.

The event is a chance to share what is learned during the seminar with a wider audience, to show how inclusion works in practice in different countries and to meet people who can become future partners. It is held in English, with translation into Romanian for local guests.

Each partner organisation can choose one of two roles, being part of the panel or facilitating a workshop, and participants are asked to discuss this choice with their sending organisation.

Role One: Taking a Seat on the Open Panel

The panel works as an open discussion. A few chairs are placed in front of the room, and anyone who wants to be part of the panel can take a seat and join the conversation. An A4ACTION facilitator moderates, using a few questions about inclusion in practice:

🚧 What barriers young people face in our communities

✅ What works in our daily work

🔧 What still needs to change

No speech is required. You simply bring your experience, your examples and your questions.

Role Two: Running a 45-Minute Workshop for Conference Guests

Workshops present a method or tool for inclusion that you already use with young people: something that works for you and that others can learn from and use. If your organisation picks this role, your national group prepares one workshop of around 45 minutes. Workshops run in two rounds, in different rooms at the same time, so guests can choose the ones that interest them most.

While preparing yours, think about:

🧰 The method or tool: what it is and which young people it is for

🏷️ The barrier: what kind of exclusion or barrier it helps with

🪜 The steps: how it works, step by step

📦 The materials: what you need to run it

🌉 The transfer: how others can adapt it to their own context

Each group sends a short description of its workshop before the seminar (title, aim, short description, materials needed); the infopack gives 3 November 2026 for this. During the seminar you get time to prepare and test the workshop with the other participants, with support from the facilitators. You do not need to be an experienced trainer, as the organisers are interested in real practice, not perfect presentations.

How to Apply for OneWay

Applications are made by completing the online registration form. The organisers recommend reading the InfoPack with attention before filling it in, and you can contact them if you need further information. Selected participants are contacted by their sending organisation shortly after.

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Getting Ready Before You Travel to Predeal

📍 Your local reality: think about the main barriers the young people you work with face (economic, social, geographical, educational, cultural, health, disability) and how your organisation responds to them.

🎙️ Your conference role: decide together with your sending organisation whether you will join the panel or facilitate a workshop, and let the organisers know.

🧭 Your travel: send your travel plan to the organisers before buying any tickets.

📸 Your stories and materials: if you have photos, short videos or stories from your work with young people that show a good practice, bring them. They can become part of the toolkit and the multimedia collection. Please make sure the people who appear in them agree to share them.

Groups of selected participants are also contacted before the mobility about information, activities or presentations they need to prepare in advance.

The Organiser: A4ACTION

A4ACTION, the Association for Initiatives and Continuous Development, was founded in October 2012. Its work is focused on young people, youth workers and educators.

🎯 Mission: to generate continuous development for young people and communities through non-formal learning activities, volunteering and civic involvement.

🔭 Vision: to provide all young people with space to reach their full potential through learning and with opportunities to actively contribute to the development of the community they belong to.

OneWay is implemented as part of A4ACTION's Erasmus+ accreditation in the youth field (Youth field Accreditation 2021-2027) and is co-funded by the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union.

The Partner Network Behind the Project

🇮🇹 JOINT (Italy)

🎓 Hermes Academy (Italy)

🇱🇻 DGT Latvia (Latvia)

🇫🇷 Youth ID (France)

🇪🇸 Bungai Asociacion (Spain)

🇭🇺 Fiatalok Egységben Egyesület, Youth Together Association (Hungary)

🇱🇹 TAVO (Lithuania)

🇵🇹 FAJUB (Portugal)

Seminar Calendar and Arrival Times

The seminar runs between 19 and 27 November 2026, and the first and last days are travel days.

🛬 Arrival day: check-in starts at 15:00.

🛫 Departure day: plan your trip before 11:00.

📅 Detailed programme: the infopack gives 6 November 2026 as the date by which it is sent to selected participants.

Recognition of Your Learning Through Youthpass

All participants receive a Youthpass certificate, the European tool for recognising learning in Erasmus+ youth projects. Daily reflection time during the seminar helps you notice what you are learning and describe it in your Youthpass.

What Comes After Predeal: Two Free Resources for Youth Workers

OneWay does not end in Predeal. A4ACTION and the partner organisations will turn what is shared and created together into:

🗺️ An interactive toolkit: methods, tools and step-by-step tips for working with young people with fewer opportunities, based on the practices tested during the seminar.

🎬 A multimedia collection of inspiring practices: short videos, audio stories and photos that show real examples of work with young people.

Your practices, workshops and stories are the base of these resources. Some sessions and the conference workshops are documented during the seminar (photos, short videos, short interviews), always with your consent. Afterwards, your sending organisation receives more details on how you can contribute and how the resources will be shared.

Staying at Hotel Draga Maria

The venue is Hotel Draga Maria in Predeal, Brașov County, about 40 km from the city of Brașov.

🛏️ Rooms: rooms of two, three or four people, shared by participants of the same gender. Each room has a private bathroom with a bath or shower, a hairdryer and towels.

🍽️ Meals: provided at the hotel restaurant. Any dietary requirements can be catered for if you tell the organisers before the mobility.

📶 Internet: free wireless internet in the hotel rooms.

♿ Accessibility: if you have any accessibility or special needs (for example reduced mobility, hearing or visual impairment), tell the organisers in the application form or by email, so everything can be prepared in advance. You only need to share what you feel comfortable sharing.

The Best Route From the Airport to the Hotel

✈️ Train from Bucharest Henri Coandă International Airport to Bucharest Gara de Nord, the main train station in Bucharest

🚆 Train from Gara de Nord to Predeal

🚕 Taxi from Predeal train station to the hotel

Timetables and train tickets can be checked and bought online. Local taxis only accept cash in RON, so you will need cash to get to and from the hotel. The shuttle bus service from the airport to Predeal will NOT be reimbursed, and the organisers strongly advise against using it due to previous issues with these transport companies.

Your Packing List for Late November in the Mountains

🙂 Good attitude, optimism and willingness to cooperate

🩺 Medication you need, your European Health Insurance Card or medical documents for treatment in Romania

🧥 Warm clothes: comfortable, windproof and waterproof clothing and mountain boots for outdoor activities. Predeal is a very cold mountain town, where temperatures at the end of November are often below 0°C and it can snow. For indoor activities pack lighter clothing, as it is warm at the accommodation (the difference between outside and inside can be more than 20 degrees)

💻 Laptop or tablet for preparing materials

🎭 Items for the Cultural Night: small things that help the others understand your culture. It takes place on one of the evenings, and you are welcome to bring traditional food and drinks

🗂️ Materials for the conference: if your organisation facilitates a workshop, bring what you need to run it (printed materials, cards, games, photos or videos from your work)

Practical Facts About Romania

💱 Currency: Leu (RON), plural Lei. Notes of 1, 5, 10, 50, 100, 200 and 500, all plastic. Euros are NOT accepted for cash payments, and 1 euro is about 5 lei.

💳 Card payments: common and safe in shops, restaurants, hotels and tourist places, but the organisers recommend having some cash for the area of the accommodation.

🚨 Emergency number: 112. The operator will ask if you need the police, fire or medical service.

🏥 Insurance: bring your European Health Insurance Card (EHIC). A travel insurance for the whole trip is also recommended.

Costs Covered by Erasmus+

The seminar is co-funded by the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union, and costs are covered according to the Erasmus+ rules:

🛎️ 100% of meals and accommodation

🎯 100% of costs during the activities

🎫 Travel costs, up to the limits listed in the next section

Maximum Travel Budget per Person

The infopack sets a normal travel budget and a green travel budget for each partner group:

🇮🇹 Italy, JOINT (3 participants): 309 EUR normal / 417 EUR green

🇮🇹 Italy, Hermes Academy (2 participants): 309 EUR normal / 417 EUR green

🇭🇺 Hungary (3 participants): 309 EUR normal / 417 EUR green

🇫🇷 France (1 participant): 309 EUR normal / 417 EUR green

🇱🇻 Latvia (3 participants): 309 EUR normal / 417 EUR green

🇪🇸 Spain (3 participants): 395 EUR normal / 535 EUR green

🇱🇹 Lithuania (3 participants): 309 EUR normal / 417 EUR green

🇵🇹 Portugal (3 participants): 395 EUR normal / 535 EUR green

🇷🇴 Romania (4 participants + 2 facilitators): 211 EUR normal / 285 EUR green

How Your Travel Costs Are Reimbursed

Reimbursement depends on the type of travel (green or normal) and the travel distance, and is based on travel documents. According to the Erasmus+ guide, green travel means using low-emission transport for the main part of the trip, such as bus, train or car-pooling. Participants who choose it receive up to four days of extra individual support to cover the travel days for a return trip, if relevant.

🧾 Keep all your travel documents (invoices, boarding passes, plane tickets, bus and train tickets and so on).

🔎 Only the cheapest means of transport and fares can be covered, and tickets should be bought only after the organisers confirm your itinerary.

🚖 Taxi costs cannot be reimbursed, unless A4ACTION tells you otherwise.

📊 Costs above the maximum travel budget for your country cannot be reimbursed.

🗓️ You can stay 1–3 days before and 1–3 days after the project at your own expense, and these costs are not reimbursed.

Paperwork to Submit by 18 December 2026

📄 Invoice from the airline or bus company (if you buy online) or from the travel agency, the electronic ticket (sometimes the e-ticket and the invoice are the same, but the exact cost must be visible) and proof of payment

🛂 Boarding passes, for each person, both ways

🎟️ Originals of all tickets (plane, bus, train and so on)

All tickets are scanned and sent by email to Ioana Șerban (address in the Links section). The originals are then sent by post, when you return home, to the postal address given in the infopack.

When the Money Reaches You

The reimbursement is made by bank transfer to your sending organisation, within one month after the organisers receive everything below:

🗃️ All the transport documents

👫 The documents from your follow-up activity: at least one activity in your local community, based on what you learned in the project, with at least 10 people (for example photos and the list of participants), sent together with the transport documents by 18 December 2026

📝 The evaluation form of the seminar, which you receive after the mobility

Who to Contact About the Mobility

For questions about reimbursement, tickets or anything else related to this mobility, you can write to Ioana Șerban or Iuliana Pavel. During the travel days, Ioana Șerban is available on WhatsApp at +40 722 227 904.

Find more Erasmus+ seminars, training courses and youth exchanges on Youth Works Hub.

Frequently Asked Questions

Who is OneWay meant for?

OneWay is meant for youth workers aged 18+, including teachers, educators, social workers, mentors, coaches of youth initiatives and solidarity projects, volunteer coordinators, trainers and facilitators. Both experienced practitioners and people with less experience who want to support inclusion better can take part.

Which countries are included in this call?

Participants can come from Romania, Italy, Latvia, France, Lithuania, Portugal and Spain. Each partner organisation sends a group of 1–3 participants.

When is the application deadline?

Applications close on 12 November 2026, a week before the seminar starts on 19 November 2026. Selected participants are contacted by their sending organisation shortly after applying.

What does Erasmus+ pay for?

Erasmus+ covers 100% of meals, accommodation and costs during the activities. Travel is reimbursed up to the maximum budget set for your country, based on your travel documents.

How much of my travel can be reimbursed?

The limit depends on your country and on whether you travel green. Italy, Latvia, Lithuania and France have 309 EUR normal and 417 EUR green budgets, Portugal and Spain have 395 EUR and 535 EUR, and Romania has 211 EUR and 285 EUR.

What is the conference on 25 November 2026?

It is an international conference on youth inclusion held as part of the seminar, with guests from outside the partner organisations. Each partner organisation either joins the open panel or facilitates a workshop of around 45 minutes.

Do I need training experience to facilitate a workshop?

No, you do not need to be an experienced trainer. The organisers are interested in real practice, not perfect presentations, and facilitators support you in preparing and testing the workshop during the seminar.

Which language will be used?

Participants need to understand and express themselves in English. The conference is held in English, with translation into Romanian for local guests.

What kind of accommodation is provided?

Participants stay at Hotel Draga Maria in Predeal, in rooms of two, three or four people shared by participants of the same gender, each with a private bathroom. Meals are provided at the hotel restaurant and free wireless internet is available in the rooms.

Can I reach the hotel by airport shuttle?

The organisers strongly advise against the shuttle bus from the airport to Predeal, and it is not reimbursed. The recommended route is by train from Bucharest Henri Coandă International Airport to Gara de Nord, by train to Predeal, and then by taxi, which only accepts cash in RON.

What do I have to do after the seminar?

You carry out at least one activity in your local community, based on what you learned, with at least 10 people. Its documents, such as photos and the list of participants, are sent with your transport documents by 18 December 2026.

Is a certificate provided?

Yes, all participants receive a Youthpass certificate. Daily reflection time during the seminar helps you describe what you have learned in it.

What weather should I expect in Predeal?

Predeal is a very cold mountain town, where temperatures at the end of November are often below 0°C and it can snow. Bring windproof and waterproof clothing and mountain boots, plus lighter clothing for the warm indoor spaces.