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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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Objectivos: • equip 18 youth workers aged 18+ from 9 partner countries, accompanied by 2 trainers, with practical and methodological tools in community-based learning, non-formal education, participatory design, mentoring, and facilitation of youth-led processes;
• support participants in learning how to design educational activities that are participatory, inclusive, accessible, and rooted in the needs of local communities;
• strengthen the role of the “youth worker 2.0”, able to read community needs, facilitate participation, and support young people with fewer opportunities in becoming active protagonists of social change;
• co-create tools and methodologies that will be collected in a digital C-LEAD Toolbox for future use and replication;
• foster long-term cooperation among partner organisations through follow-up activities, mentoring, dissemination, and future collaboration.
Alojamento: The training course C-LEAD will take place at Il Favogoloso, located in Alatri (Frosinone, Lazio), at
Via Monte Capraro 5. The venue is a countryside accommodation facility in a natural setting overlooking the Ciociaria area, designed for group stays and surrounded by a calm rural landscape.
It offers a peaceful and inspiring environment that is particularly suitable for international training courses, non-formal education activities, group work, and community living.
Il Favogoloso is immersed in nature and provides a context that encourages focus, slower rhythms, meaningful interaction, and connection with the surrounding environment. The area is characterised by open space, countryside, and a quiet atmosphere, making it especially appropriate for a training course based on participation, reflection, experiential learning, and collective life. The venue is also described as a good base for discovering the territory of Alatri and Ciociaria.
The venue offers:
• shared accommodation in shared rooms, with no single rooms foreseen for participants;
• a central kitchen/common area and indoor shared spaces for daily community life;
• large outdoor spaces and green surroundings that can be used for informal meetings, energisers, reflection, and outdoor educational moments;
• a natural and residential environment that supports concentration, group cohesion, and personal well-being.
Practical arrangements
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.
The venue includes both indoor and outdoor spaces, allowing the programme to combine workshop sessions, small group work, informal exchanges, and reflection activities in different settings.
Depending on the programme and weather conditions, some activities may also take place outside, making use of the natural surroundings and the open-air environment. The presence of wide external areas is particularly valuable for a project such as C-LEAD, which is connected to community-based learning, participation, and experiential educational methods.
As the venue is located in a quiet countryside area, participants should be aware that this is not a town-centre accommodation and that services such as bars, restaurants, or supermarkets are not immediately around the corner. For this reason, it is advisable to bring all essential personal items, medicines, and anything needed for the stay.
Participants are asked to respect the venue, the shared spaces, the rhythms of the group, and the surrounding natural environment. Caring for the place that hosts us is part of the educational experience itself: we therefore encourage everyone to use resources responsibly, avoid waste, keep common spaces clean and welcoming, and contribute to creating a respectful, sustainable, and supportive atmosphere throughout the mobility.
All accommodation, meals, and educational activities during the official programme are covered by the Erasmus+ project. Any personal expenses outside the official programme remain at the participants’ own cost, so bringing a small amount of pocket money is recommended.
Meals and diets: meals will be simple, home-style and largely inspired by the local Mediterranean cuisine. 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: January in this part of Italy can be cold and humid, especially in the evenings. 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.
They will be accompanied by 2 trainers. 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.
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.
