📌 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
