🇫🇷 Erasmus+ Training Course in France 🌿 More-Than-Human, Imagination & Decolonial Ecology at Resprout Our Roots 🌱

What does it mean to reconnect with the living world — not as tourists, but as beings who belong to it? This training course does not offer answers. It offers something rarer: a collective space to ask better questions, try different ways of knowing, and imagine alternative futures together.

La Rapugada is organising Resprout Our Roots: More-than-Human and Imagination — a 10-day Erasmus+ training course taking place in Piegros-la-Clastre, France, from 5 to 16 October 2026. The course brings together 26 youth workers from across Europe in a rural living space surrounded by nature, for a laboratory-style exploration of ecology, imagination, ritual, and the politics of our relationship with the more-than-human world.

What Is This Training About?

The course uses the term “more-than-human” rather than “nature” — deliberately, and purposefully — to reopen the ways we understand our surroundings and collectively imagine new ways of doing, experiencing, and thinking about what surrounds us. This is a political project as much as an ecological one: the facilitators believe it is impossible to separate ecology, anti-patriarchy, the struggle against capitalism, and decolonisation.

The exploration unfolds through writing, non-formal tools, theatrical improvisation, meditation, guided walks, shared experiences, and theoretical reflection. Participants will work on ancestral rituals, knowledges, and customs — and every participant is an active part of the process. Rather than seeking definitive answers, the group collectively opens a space for exploration and encounter.

Objectives

✍️ Experiment with new daily forms of living with the living

💡 Stimulate imagination and collective creative thinking

📝 Acquire writing tools for reflection and expression

🗣️ Practice group discussion and exchange of perspectives

📚 Explore theoretical, philosophical, and political texts about modernity, nature, living, and the more-than-human

🕯️ Think about and experience the concept of ritual

🌍 Open up to decolonial issues and their relationship with ecology

Guiding Questions

The training is structured around two core questions:

🌱 How can we sprout with our own people’s roots and rituals and replant them to create a more desirable future?

🌿 How can we work towards reintegrating the more-than-human into our daily lives — and in what forms?

Who Should Apply?

🔹 Over 18 years old

🔹 Lives in a European Union country and has a sending organisation with an OID

🔹 Working with youth — as an educator, volunteer, or similar role

🔹 Interested in the topic of environment and our representations of what surrounds us

🔹 Wants to share and create around common possibilities still to be imagined

Methods

The course crosses multiple mediums throughout the 10 days:

🎭 Theatrical improvisation

🧘 Meditation and guided walks

✍️ Writing and artistic practices

🕯️ Research on rituals and ancestral customs

📖 Theoretical reflection on political and philosophical texts

🤝 Shared experiences and group discussion

The Venue

Participants are hosted in shared rooms in a joyful shared living space surrounded by nature in Piegros-la-Clastre (26400), France. The nearest airports are Marseille, Grenoble, and Lyon. Travel to the venue is by train to Saillans, where an organiser will pick up participants.

⚠️ Do NOT book tickets through Trainline — use the official SNCF or OUIGO websites. Do not purchase any tickets before they are confirmed by the organisers.

What to Bring

👟 Comfortable and waterproof clothes, raincoat and shoes

🧴 Hygiene kit and towels, flip flops for the shower

🛏️ Pillowcase and sleeping bag or bedsheets if possible

📓 A notebook for writing/drawing and pens/pencils

💧 A personal water bottle

⌚ A watch or battery-operated clock

💳 Travel and health insurance — European Health Card recommended

🍱 Typical food and snacks from your country

🎵 Games or musical instruments

Travel & Reimbursement

🌿 Eco-responsible travel is strongly encouraged. Only the cheapest public transport tickets will be reimbursed.

📍 10–99 km: eco up to €56 / non-eco up to €28

📍 100–499 km: eco up to €285 / non-eco up to €211

📍 500–1999 km: eco up to €417 / non-eco up to €309

⚠️ Every itinerary must be approved by organisers before booking. Original tickets must be sent by post after the project for reimbursement. The trip will be reimbursed by bank transfer to the partner association.

💶 No participation fee

🍽️ Food and accommodation entirely covered by the Erasmus+ programme

🎓 Youthpass Certificate provided upon completion

💬 Curious about how Erasmus+ training courses work and what participants are expected to do?This complete guide covers all the essentials before you apply: https://youthworkshub.org/15096/

Contact

📧 Maitilde de Galzain — La Rapugada: rapugadaerasmus@gmail.com

📞 +33 781 500 069

🔗 Training overview: http://trainings.salto-youth.net/14781

Activity Details

📅 Activity Dates: 05 October 2026 – 16 October 2026

📍 Location: Piegros-la-Clastre, France

👤 Activity Type: Training Course

📋 Date of selection: 19 June 2026

Deadline

⏰ 18 June 2026

Eligible Countries

🇦🇹 Austria 🇧🇪 Belgium 🇧🇬 Bulgaria 🇭🇷 Croatia 🇨🇾 Cyprus 🇨🇿 Czechia 🇩🇰 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

Apply

🔗 http://trainings.salto-youth.net/14781

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