🧠 Radical Education – Pilot Training on Alternative Educational Practices for Systemic Change | Training Course | 🇩🇪 Germany

📍 Location: Weimar, Germany
📅 Dates: 14–19 September 2025

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🌍 ABOUT THE TRAINING
This pioneering Erasmus+ training course invites educators and youth workers from across Europe to explore radical educational methods that tackle structural inequalities, reimagine pedagogy, and empower young people to act for transformative social change. Rooted in critical pedagogy and radical imagination, the training steps beyond conventional practices to challenge dominant norms and explore paths toward equity, justice, and democratic renewal.

🧩 This is not just about “critical thinking” as a skill—this is about radical thinking:
🌱 Rethinking from the root
🌎 Imagining new utopias
🤝 Promoting collective action
🔥 Challenging systemic oppression

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🎯 OBJECTIVES
✔️ Create a space for educators to engage with bold, radical thinking
✔️ Explore and co-create educational practices addressing systemic crises
✔️ Build local follow-up initiatives rooted in critical consciousness and action
✔️ Establish a European network of radical education practitioners

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👥 WHO SHOULD APPLY?
This course is for educators, youth workers, and facilitators (age 18+) from Erasmus+ programme countries who are:
✔️ Working with youth on structural issues: anti-racism, climate justice, anti-patriarchy, LGBTQIA+ rights, anti-capitalism, intersectionality, ecofeminism, etc.
✔️ New to international youth work and eager to incorporate radical education practices
✔️ Committed to follow-up and applying radical methods in their communities

🌿 Priority will be given to those who are not yet established in international routines but wish to grow their radical practice locally.

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🧪 METHODOLOGY
Participants will engage with experimental methods such as:
🔊 Immersive Audio Unlearning Experiences
🧩 Board Games for Reflecting on Self & Identity
🎨 Utopia Visualization Tools
🤝 Collaborative Peer-Learning for Educational Design
🌐 Interactive digital reflection apps

All methods reflect a healthy distance from mainstream non-formal education and encourage fresh, disruptive pedagogical perspectives.

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📣 FOLLOW-UP OPPORTUNITIES
📝 A publication featuring radical educational practices
🤝 A pan-European practitioners’ network
📍 A future seminar to scale radical methods in education

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🏠 LOGISTICS
✔️ Venue: Stiftung EJBW – European Youth Education Centre, Weimar
✔️ Accommodation: Double rooms with full board
✔️ Travel Reimbursement: According to Erasmus+ distance band rules (up to €417 for green travel)
✔️ Language: English
💶 Participation Fee:

• €25 – for students/unemployed/volunteers
• €50 – for freelance youth workers/trainers
• €75 – for those in stable employment
  (If you can’t afford the fee, contact the organizers for alternatives.)

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📩 CONTACT & APPLICATION
🔗 Apply here by 29 May 2025
📅 Selection date: 8 June 2025
📞 Contact: Markus Rebitschek
📧 rebitschek@ejbweimar.de
🌐 www.ejbweimar.de

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