Are you a young person aged between 15 and 20 who wants to bring about change in your community? Do you want to have a greater influence on your local area and make your voice heard? Do you want to learn from other young people across Europe?
This is a four-day international training module aimed at youth representatives from municipal youth councils or similar bodies, particularly from those municipalities that have already sent participants to a Municipalities4Democracy programme.
Its aim is to promote youth participation in municipal decision-making and to develop local democracy. The course seeks to empower and inspire young people active at a local level to promote greater participation in decision-making, become agents of positive change within their participatory structures, and foster international cooperation.
Benefits:
- Meet 29 other young people interested in learning more about youth participation in the municipal context.
- Learn from other young Europeans how to work in collaboration with local communities and municipalities.
- To learn how to gather more information about your own local context and understand the obstacles and opportunities it presents.
- Develop your personal skills to become more involved in democratic youth participation in decision-making.
- To learn how to use Erasmus+ Youth and European Solidarity Corps grants to develop activities and/or projects focused on youth participation.
Requirements:
- Be able to speak, read and write English at a basic level. It’s fine if you’re still learning, but you should be able to express yourself in an international group. The training will provide a safe space to use English.
- Be aged between 15 and 20,
- Have participated in or organised at least one participatory activity, project or initiative in your local community or school.
- You must have experience working with local authorities. It is sufficient to have at least one experience organising or participating in a community activity.
- So that you can speak on behalf of the young people in your community. We want you to understand your community, its challenges and its opportunities, and during the training course we will focus on the skills needed to do this.
- To be a good speaker, we believe a range of skills are important for a young person in this context. For example: researching, reading, collaborating, analysing, debating with others, listening, etc. Public speaking is just one of many skills. We will explore all of them through the training tasks throughout the week. If you are willing to try new things that may be outside your comfort zone, you will succeed.
Application deadline: 29 March 2026.
More information: Eurodesk.
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