🔑 Key Information
Activity ⭐️ Title
Partnership Building Activity: Young Women in Rural Communities - Inclusive Youth Work and Access to Opportunities
Activity 🔶 Type | 📆 Dates | 📍Location
Partnership-building Activity
23-27 November 2026 | Portugal
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❗️What Is This Training About?
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ℹ️ Description About The Opportunity
We invite youth workers from Programme countries and Southern Mediterranean countries to take part in an international Partnership Building Activity (PBA) in Northern Portugal focused on inclusive youth work with young women, particularly those living in rural, remote or peripheral communities.
Young women living in rural and peripheral areas experience unique realities that present both opportunities and challenges. Rural communities often offer strong social connections, a sense of belonging and growing spaces for community engagement, local leadership and social innovation. At the same time, young women may face barriers such as geographical isolation, limited mobility, reduced access to information, fewer educational and professional opportunities, persistent gender stereotypes and less direct access to youth services and international experiences.
These factors can particularly affect young women with fewer opportunities, influencing their participation in community life and their awareness of, and access to, local, national and European opportunities. Youth work has an important role to play in recognising the strengths of rural communities while addressing the barriers that prevent young women from fully participating, accessing information and benefiting from the opportunities available to them.
Youth workers and youth organisations play an important role in addressing these inequalities. They can create inclusive spaces, provide information, accompany young women in accessing opportunities and develop practices that respond to the realities of their communities.
The PBA will bring together youth workers from E+ and ESC Programme and Southern Mediterranean countries to exchange experiences and reflect on how their organisations engage young women, remove barriers and make opportunities more visible, accessible and inclusive.
The programme will include a visit to a local organisation in Northern Portugal working with young women or rural communities. This activity will offer a concrete starting point for discussion, while the main focus of the activity will remain on peer learning and the exchange of practices among participants.
Training overview
This Partnership-building Activity is
for 30 participants
from Erasmus+ Youth Programme countries 
, Southern Mediterranean countries
and recommended for
Youth workers, Youth leaders
Accessibility info:
This activity and venue place are accessible to people with disabilities.
Working language(s):
English
Organiser:
Agência Nacional Erasmus+ Juventude/Desporto e Corpo Europeu de Solidariedade (National Agency)
Co-organiser(s):
- SALTO EuroMed Resource Centre (SALTO Resource Centre)
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📥 Contact
Contact for questions:
Agência Nacional Erasmus+ Juventude/Desporto e Corpo Europeu de Solidariedade
E-Mail:
Phone: +351213010477
💶 Costs
Participation fee
This project is financed by the participating National Agencies (NAs) of the Erasmus+ Programme. The participation fee varies from country to country. Please contact your National Agency or SALTO Resource Centre (SALTO) to learn more about the participation fee for participants from your country.
Accommodation and food
The hosting of this offer will organise the accommodation and covers the costs for accommodation and food, during the activity dates.
Travel reimbursement
Please contact your NA or SALTO in order to know whether they would support your travel costs. If yes, after being selected, get in touch with your NA or SALTO again to learn more about the overall procedure to arrange the booking of your travel tickets and the reimbursement of your travel expenses. SALTO EuroMed will be responsible for the travel costs of the South-Med participants and will book the flights directly.
📜 Certificate
Participants are entitled to receive a Youthpass certificate from the organiser, for recognition of their competence development during the activity. Read more about Youthpass:
https://youthworkshub.org/what-is-youthpass
⚠️ Important Dates
Application deadline (24h UTC): 4 September 2026
Date of selection: 16 September 2026
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