About the Training Course 🇭🇺🌲

Organised by Élményakadémia KHE (Hungary 🇭🇺), this 12-day intensive Erasmus+ Training Course in Galyatető, Hungary (18–29 March 2026) is designed for youth workers, educators, trainers and helping professionals who want to deeply understand outdoor experiential education.
Participants will experience group-building activities, rope elements, wilderness basics, expedition skills and experiential education models — all while learning how to use nature as a powerful educational tool.

Goals & Learning Outcomes 🎯🌿

• 🌲 Nature as a Tool: Learn how to use nature in youth work & group processes
• 🧭 Strong Self-Experience: Participate in outdoor experiential activities
• 🩺 Wilderness Awareness: Intro to outdoor risk management & first aid
• 🧠 Experiential Learning Models: Reflect on methods, concepts & practice
• 🗣️ Facilitation Competence: Improve skills for leading educational activities
• 🧩 Program Design: Learn how to structure outdoor & experiential programs
• 🇪🇺 ETS Framework: Understand the European Training Strategy & self-reflection

Methods Used in the Course 🏕️🪢

• 🧗 High & low-rope elements
• 🏞️ Two-night outdoor expedition
• 🔄 Meta-reflection & structured debriefings
• 🎒 Experiential learning (“learning by doing”)
• 👥 Individual, small-group and large-group reflections
• 🌍 Sharing good practices among participants

Outdoor Education Competences You Will Gain 🧭🌿

• 🧩 Facilitation of outdoor experiential activities
• 🪢 Basic competence in rope elements
• 🥾 Using hiking & expeditions in your youth work
• 🚨 Basics of outdoor risk management
• 🌱 “Leave No Trace” principles
• 🩺 Intro to wilderness first aid
• 🧗 Experience of high-ropes activities
• 🌍 Competences for working with vulnerable youth outdoors

Non-Formal Education Learnings 🎓✨

• 👥 Improved facilitation & group-learning skills
• 📚 Ability to integrate experiential learning into program design
• 🇪🇺 Understanding the ETS competence model
• 🔍 Deepened self-reflection & facilitator awareness
• 🧭 Ability to apply outdoor experiential education in youth work

Participant Profile 👥🏕️

This training is for:

• 👥 Youth workers, trainers, educators, instructors, facilitators, coaches, psychologists
• 🎓 Professionals working with young people
• 🎒 Physically able to hike 15–20 km/day & carry a 50L backpack
• 🏕️ Comfortable spending two nights outdoors
• 🗣️ Able to communicate in English
• 💪 Motivated to develop outdoor & facilitation competences
• 🔞 Age 21+
• 📅 Must attend the entire training program

Eligible Countries 🌍🇪🇺

🇦🇹 Austria • 🇧🇪 Belgium (DE/FL/FR) • 🇧🇬 Bulgaria • 🇭🇷 Croatia • 🇨🇾 Cyprus • 🇨🇿 Czech Republic • 🇩🇰 Denmark • 🇪🇪 Estonia • 🇫🇮 Finland • 🇫🇷 France • 🇩🇪 Germany • 🇬🇷 Greece • 🇭🇺 Hungary • 🇮🇸 Iceland • 🇮🇪 Ireland • 🇮🇹 Italy • 🇱🇻 Latvia • 🇱🇮 Liechtenstein • 🇱🇹 Lithuania • 🇱🇺 Luxembourg • 🇲🇹 Malta • 🇳🇱 Netherlands • 🇳🇴 Norway • 🇵🇱 Poland • 🇵🇹 Portugal • 🇲🇰 North Macedonia • 🇷🇴 Romania • 🇷🇸 Serbia • 🇸🇰 Slovakia • 🇸🇮 Slovenia • 🇪🇸 Spain • 🇸🇪 Sweden • 🇨🇭 Switzerland • 🇹🇷 Türkiye

Accommodation, Food & Costs 🏡🍽️💶

• 🛏️ Rooms for 2–3 people (bedlinen & towels included)
• 🍽️ 3 meals/day + snacks
• 🍽️ First meal: dinner on arrival day • Last meal: breakfast on departure
• 🚍 Travel options shared after selection
• 💳 Participation fee: 30 EUR (can be waived for financial hardship)
• 🧾 Travel reimbursement up to 100% within allocated budget
• 🚫 No taxi / first class tickets covered
• 🌱 Green travel encouraged (bus, train, car-sharing)
• 🔗 Distance-based reimbursement rules apply via EU calculator

Application Deadline 📅

4 January 2026 (24h UTC)
📢 Selection date: 18 January 2026
🌐 Training page: http://trainings.salto-youth.net/14202

Application Link 🔗

http://trainings.salto-youth.net/14202

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