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Título: TC: C-LEAD: Community-driven Learning, Education, and Design for youth workers
Tema: Education; non-formal education;inclusion; innovation;
Duração: 9 dias de 30-08-2026 a 07-09-2026
Idades dos participantes: Dos 18 aos 30 anos
Jovens portugueses: 2
Líderes portugueses: 0
Número total de participantes: 18
Idioma: Inglês
Países participantes: Portugal, Itália, Espanha, Hungria, Moldávia, Roménia, Lituânia, Bulgária, Bósnia e Herzegovina
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Resumo: The training course is based on a non-formal and experiential learning approach, designed to foster active participation, inclusion, peer exchange, and shared ownership of the learning process. Participants will not only receive tools and knowledge, but will also experience methods directly through reflection, group work, co-design, and practical experimentation.
The educational environment is built to be participatory, learner-centred, and supportive of different backgrounds and levels of experience. The project brings together both experienced youth workers and newcomers, creating a dynamic space for peer learning, mutual inspiration, and collective growth. Through this process, participants will strengthen competences in non-formal education, community-based learning, participatory facilitation, mentoring, and the design of youth-led initiatives. Special attention is also given to well-being, inclusion, and personal support. Reflection spaces, peer support, mentoring, and coaching are integrated into the process in order to support not only professional learning, but also individual empowerment and confidence in applying the methods in local contexts. Core elements of the educational approach include:
• experiential learning and non-formal education;
• peer learning and exchange of practices;
• mentoring and coaching;
• participatory design and co-creation;
• community-based learning and local needs assessment;
• reflection, documentation, and transfer of learning into practice.
Alojamento: Participants will be accommodated in shared rooms, and room sharing is an essential part of the group experience. The accommodation is simple, welcoming, and community-oriented. Since the activity takes place in a rural natural area, participants should be ready for a stay that is more focused
on group life, learning, and connection with nature than on urban comfort or nightlife. Each room has its own bathroom, which helps ensure a good balance between shared living and personal comfort. At the same time, common spaces will play an important role in the experience, as participants will spend time together not only during workshops, but also during meals, informal discussions, and self-organised moments.
Meals and diets: meals will be simple, home-style and largely inspired by the local Mediterranean icuisine. The manù will be with only Vegetarian options, and we will do our best to accommodate special dietary needs (vegan, allergies, intolerances, religious restrictions) if indicated in advance in the application/registration form.
Language: the main working language of the project will be English. A B2 level (according to the
Common European Framework of Reference for Languages - CEFR) is recommended to ensure active participation in group discussions, exercises and collaborative tasks.
Connectivity: Wi-Fi is available at the hostel, but please keep in mind that this is a rural area, so the connection may be slower or occasionally unstable. Mobile network coverage is generally sufficient, but short disruptions are possible. Should that happen, we invite you to take it as an opportunity to disconnect from the digital world and reconnect with yourself, with nature and with the group, embracing a slower rhythm and deeper presence during the training journey.
What to bring: We
strongly recommend bringing warm clothes, comfortable shoes, a rain jacket, indoor slippers, and a
personal towel and toiletries.
Arrival day: 30/08/2026
deaprture day: 07/09/2026
Perfil: The primary target group of the project consists of 18 youth workers, educators, facilitators, trainers, mentors, and community-based practitioners, aged 18+, coming from 9 partner countries: Italy, Spain, Hungary, Portugal, Moldova, Romania, Lithuania, Bulgaria, and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The project particularly targets professionals working with young people with fewer opportunities, including young people facing social exclusion, limited access to education and training, weak participation in community life, or barriers linked to social, economic, cultural, educational, geographical, or discrimination-related factors. A specific focus is placed on helping youth workers create more inclusive and needs-based responses for these groups.
Beyond the direct participants, the project also targets:
• the staff teams of the 9 partner organisations, who will benefit from internal workshops and knowledge transfer;
• young people with fewer opportunities in the partners’ local communities, who will be engaged through follow-up actions and participatory local activities;
• a wider network of youth workers, NGOs, and stakeholders who will access the project’s methods and results through dissemination and multiplication activities.
Descrição: “C-LEAD – Community-driven Learning, Education, and Design for youth workers” is a
transnational Training Course designed to strengthen the role of youth workers, educators,
facilitators, trainers, and mentors as key actors in supporting the participation, empowerment, and
activation of young people with fewer opportunities. The project promotes a more inclusive,
participatory, and community-rooted approach to youth work, helping youth workers design
educational processes that are better connected to the real needs, challenges, and resources of the
communities where young people live.
The project was developed in response to concrete needs identified by the partner organisations
through local listening processes, community-based observation, surveys, and consultations
involving youth workers, educators, facilitators, and young people themselves. These processes
highlighted the need for more inclusive and accessible educational tools, stronger competences in
needs-based design, more flexible and transferable methodologies, and a stronger international
network able to promote community-based education as a meaningful approach for youth
empowerment and local development.
In this context, C-LEAD aims to equip youth workers with practical tools to design and facilitate nonformal
educational activities rooted in local realities, while also strengthening their ability to support
young people in becoming active agents of change in their communities. By combining non-formal
education, experiential learning, mentoring, co-design, and local follow-up actions, the project
contributes to the development of a more responsive, sustainable, and transformative youth work
practice.
Key needs addressed by the project include:
• strengthening youth workers’ capacity to design inclusive and accessible educational pathways based on the real needs of young people and communities;
• improving competences in community-based learning, participatory processes, mentoring, and co-design;
• providing flexible and transferable methods that can be adapted to different local contexts and groups of young people with fewer opportunities;
• creating a stronger international network of youth workers and organisations committed to inclusive, participatory, and community-based youth work.
