🔑 Key Information
Activity ⭐️ Title
D.C.O.D.E. – Decoding Dopamine: A Strategic Map for Youth Workers
Activity 🔶 Type | 📆 Dates | 📍Location
Training Course
24 October - 2 November 2026 | Casa Negrea, Ighiu, Alba, Romania
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❗️What Is This Training About?
D.C.O.D.E. is an Erasmus+ Training Course in Ighiu, Romania, for 25 youth workers from five countries. It explores dopamine, attention and digital habits, offering practical non-formal tools for healthier technology use.
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ℹ️ Description About The Opportunity
D.C.O.D.E. – Decoding Dopamine: A Strategic Map for Youth Workers is an Erasmus+ Training Course that helps youth workers understand why digital technologies are so engaging, how dopamine, attention, habits, and digital environments influence young people's behaviour, and what practical strategies can be used to promote healthier digital habits.
Through non-formal education, experiential learning, and practical workshops, participants will gain tools they can directly apply in their youth work. The training will take place in Ighiu, Romania, from 24 October to 2 November 2026 (including travel days) and will bring together 25 youth workers from Romania, Spain, Portugal, Türkiye, and Greece.
After the training, Objectives
To increase youth workers' understanding of how dopamine, attention, habits, and digital environments influence young people's behaviour.
To equip participants with practical non-formal education methods that promote healthier digital habits among young people.
To strengthen participants' capacity to critically analyse digital tools and support young people in developing a balanced relationship with technology.
To encourage the exchange of good practices and foster international cooperation among youth workers.
To support participants in transferring the knowledge, methods, and tools acquired during the training into their local communities through follow-up activities.
Training overview
This Training Course is
for 25 participants
from Greece, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Türkiye
and recommended for
Youth workers, Youth leaders, Youth project managers, Youth coaches, E#ducators, Teachers
Accessibility info:
This activity and venue place are accessible to people with disabilities.
Working language(s):
English
Organiser:
Asociația VALORI EDUCAȚIONALE NONFORMALE (Youth NGO)
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📥 Contact
Contact for questions:
Rachita Natalia Larisa
E-mail: ana_canatuli@yahoo.com
E-Mail:
Phone: +40 741 180 300
💶 Costs
Costs
Participation fee
There is no participation fee.
Accommodation and food
The project is co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme. Accommodation, meals and coffee breaks during the official project period.
Travel reimbursement
Travel costs will be reimbursed by the hosting organisation according to the Erasmus+ distance-band rules and within the maximum amounts approved for the project.
📜 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): 10 September 2026
Date of selection: 24 September 2026
🔗 Official Link
🗂️ Documents
⚠️ Important Notice
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