📌 Project Type: Erasmus+ Training Course
📅 Dates & Locations:

  • France (Cornus, near Montpellier): 13–21 October 2025
  • Portugal (Madeira, Funchal): 21–29 November 2025
    📅 Application Deadline: 1 September 2025
    📍 Venues: France (gîte with private rooms), Portugal (Youth Hostel Pousada da Juventude)
    👥 Number of Participants: 24 youth workers, trainers, educators, youth leaders, health professionals
    🌐 Eligible Countries: France 🇫🇷, Italy 🇮🇹

🌟 About the Project

Words for Change is a two-part training course that empowers youth workers and educators to address gender and sexuality education with confidence, inclusivity, and creativity.

Young people today navigate a digital world full of opportunities and risks — from online freedom to cyber harassment and stereotypes. This training equips participants to go beyond traditional prevention campaigns, building inclusive and critical approaches to gender, sexuality, and relationships.

🎯 Objectives

✔️ Deepen knowledge of gender, sexuality, and history
✔️ Strengthen youth workers’ ability to reflect and take positions on sensitive issues
✔️ Create practical educational tools & toolkits on gender & sexuality
✔️ Exchange good practices across Europe
✔️ Build a European peer network for future collaboration

📚 Methodology

🌍 Non-formal education methods: workshops, group reflections, debates, energizers
🧠 Theoretical inputs combined with participatory learning
📝 Writing-based tools for reflection & creativity
🤝 Peer exchange & collective intelligence to design new approaches

🏡 Accommodation, Food & Travel

  • Accommodation & meals fully covered by Erasmus+
  • France (Cornus): Shared rooms in a gîte
  • Portugal (Madeira): Shared rooms in a youth hostel
  • Pocket money & travel reimbursement included (based on Erasmus+ distance calculator)
  • Green travel encouraged (bus, train, carpooling)

👥 Participant Profile

  • Open to youth workers, educators, social workers, psychologists, trainers, youth leaders, health professionals
  • Must be 18+ and active in education, youth work, or social inclusion
  • Motivated to work on gender & sexuality education
  • Ready to share experiences and collaborate
  • Diversity & inclusion strongly encouraged

🔗 Application Info

📅 Deadline: 1 September 2025
📌 Selection Date: 13 September 2025
👉 Application link: Apply here