🌍✨ Training Course in Hungary – GLOW: Growing Leaders of Wellbeing 🌱 Empower Youth Workers to Support Mental Health! 🇭🇺

📚 About the Training Course
Hosted in Szeged, Hungary, GLOW – Growing Leaders of Wellbeing is an intensive Erasmus+ Training Course designed to strengthen youth workers’ competences in supporting young people’s mental health, resilience, emotional literacy, stigma reduction, and wellbeing practices through non-formal learning methods.
The course provides youth workers with practical tools, emotional-support techniques, stigma-awareness strategies, and the ability to design impactful mental-health-related initiatives within their local communities.

📅 Activity Dates
12–20 March 2026

📅 Application Deadline
12 January 2026

📍 Location
Szeged, Hungary 🇭🇺

🌟 Themes & Learning Focus
This training course develops youth workers’ skills across interconnected mental-health themes, including:

• Mental health literacy & wellbeing foundations
• Taboo, stigma reduction & inclusive communication
• Emotional regulation tools (EFT, stress & anger management)
• Mental health advocacy & campaigning
• Designing sustainable awareness campaigns
• Erasmus+ opportunities for mental-health-related youth work
• Transnational cooperation & sharing good practices
  The goal is to ensure participants become confident, informed, and mental-health-sensitive youth workers capable of creating safer, more supportive spaces for young people.

🎯 Objectives of the Training Course
O1 – Improve Mental Health Literacy
Participants understand and apply at least five core mental-health concepts, including CBT basics and positive psychology.

O2 – Address Stigma & Taboo
Participants design non-formal activities that reduce stigma and promote open conversation.

O3 – Strengthen Emotional-Support Toolbox
Participants learn and practice practical emotional-support techniques and identify safe usage contexts.

O4 – Develop Mental Health Campaigns
Participants create sustainable mental health awareness campaigns adaptable to their communities.

O5 – Foster Transnational Cooperation
Participants exchange good practices and contribute to international collaboration.

O6 – Use Erasmus+ for Mental Health Youth Work
Participants identify Erasmus+ opportunities and develop at least one project idea supporting youth wellbeing.

🧠 Methodology
The course follows non-formal education principles, including:

• Experiential learning (Kolb Cycle)
• Interactive workshops & team-building
• Creative sessions & campaign-design labs
• Reflection groups & Youthpass process
• Peer-to-peer exchange & Open Space
• Expert-based inputs on CBT, positive psychology, emotional tools
  A mental-health-sensitive facilitation approach ensures safe, inclusive conditions for learning.

👥 Who Can Participate?
Open to:

• Youth workers, youth leaders, educators, trainers, teachers, volunteers
  Priority for those who:
• Work with young people with fewer opportunities
• Face mental-health-related challenges in their daily youth work
• Want to implement wellbeing practices in local communities
• Can participate fully in preparation, training, and follow-up
  Participants must be 18+ and able to communicate in English.

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

💶 Costs & Practical Info

• No participation fee
• Accommodation & food covered by organisers
• Travel costs reimbursed based on EU distance calculator
• Youthpass certificate provided

Application Link
http://trainings.salto-youth.net/14233

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