Key Information
| 08/10/2026 - 15/10/2026Arrival / Departure | Ommen, the Netherlands | 4 September 2026Application Deadline |
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💡 About the Project
The AI Literacy for Inclusive Youth Participation project is an Erasmus+ Training Course for youth workers focused on strengthening digital youth work and AI literacy.
Young people’s participation and everyday communication increasingly happen online, while artificial intelligence is becoming part of the digital environment through the content they see, the feeds that rank it, and images and voices that can be convincingly fabricated. Youth workers therefore need practical skills and clear guidance to support young people in these spaces safely and inclusively.
The training addresses topics such as deepfakes and misinformation, online influence, ethics and bias, privacy, consent, safeguarding in digital and hybrid settings, and inclusive digital participation.
The course uses non-formal education, including tool labs, scenario simulations, practice case labs, co-creation sprints, micro-facilitation, reflection and peer learning. Participants will actively experience the methods rather than simply listen to lectures.
The aim is to strengthen the quality of digital youth work by equipping youth workers to support young people’s participation in AI-shaped online environments in a safe, ethical and inclusive way.
🎯 Objectives
- Build practical competences in digital youth work and AI literacy.
- Strengthen understanding of deepfakes, misinformation and online influence.
- Explore ethics, bias, privacy, consent and safeguarding in digital and hybrid settings.
- Improve facilitation skills for participatory, non-formal sessions that strengthen youth voice online and offline.
- Develop practical checklists and reusable session formats.
- Support the transfer of learning into participants’ daily youth work practice.
👥 Target Group
- Youth workers aged 18+ with direct contact with young people in non-formal settings.
- Facilitators, mentors, trainers, project coordinators and digital youth work practitioners.
- Colleagues working in youth organisations in programme design, communication, coordination or management are also welcome.
- Good command of English.
- No technical background is required.
- Participants should bring one real dilemma from their own practice.
- Participants should be ready to facilitate twice in front of peers.
- Participants must bring their own laptop or tablet.
🏠 About the Location
The training course will take place in Ommen, the Netherlands, at Olde Vechte, a self-managed training and accommodation centre located in its own forest.
🏡 Venue: Olde Vechte · Zeesserweg 12, 7731 BG Ommen, the Netherlands
🚆 How to Get There
- Participants should reach the Netherlands and continue by train to Ommen.
- Amsterdam Schiphol is the usual choice and has a railway station directly beneath the terminal. Eindhoven, Rotterdam–The Hague and Groningen airports are also possible.
- Once in the Netherlands, buy a single train ticket through to Ommen via NS.nl or the NS app.
- Ommen is on the Zwolle–Emmen railway line.
- From Ommen station to Olde Vechte: approximately 16 minutes on foot. No taxi or transfer is arranged.
- Participants should bring luggage they can comfortably carry.
- Participants are encouraged to consider train or coach travel where realistic as a lower-carbon option.
✉️ Travel plans must be approved by the organizers: community@geyc.ro in line with GEYC's Travel Policy
💶 Financial Details
✅ Covered by Erasmus+:
- 100% accommodation and meals
- Travel reimbursement within the applicable Erasmus+ limits for the route.
🙌 Your contribution: a cofunding of 200 RON covering community management and administrative costs not included in the European funding.
Waived for: GEYC’s executive team, Board, interns, volunteers, European Fellows, and participants with fewer economic opportunities. If you have a valid MC Voucher you can use it to waive your contribution.
✈️ Travel Policy
- All travel purchases must be pre-approved by the organisers. Unapproved purchases are not reimbursed.
- Participants should use the cheapest reasonable travel option. First-class tickets, taxis and private transfers are not reimbursed.
- Tickets should be booked directly on the airline's or transport operator's own website, not through agencies or third-party sites.
- Travel light. Checked baggage is reimbursed only where the route is direct and after prior agreement.
- Reimbursement is made after the course, can take up to two months, and depends on full participation and completion of the required follow-up activity.
- Keep every ticket and boarding pass. Mobile boarding passes should be saved as screenshots.
- Do not purchase tickets before receiving approval. Send the proposed route and price to the organisers first.
- Participants may arrive up to two days before and stay up to two days after the course at their own expense, provided that the travel price is not substantially higher than on the official travel dates.
- For international routes involving connections, approval must be obtained before booking.
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📘 Important Information
- Health insurance: EHIC is required for EU residents. Participants residing outside the EU must have private insurance covering health, accidents, emergencies, repatriation and civil liability.
- Travel documents: Valid ID card/passport and documents required for entry into the Netherlands.
- Youthpass certificate: awarded at the end of the mobility.
- Equipment: bring your own laptop or tablet.
- Preparation: bring one real dilemma from your own youth work practice.
- Follow-up: participants commit to one pilot activity in their organisation after the course and one recap post within 14 days after the course.
- What to bring: warm layers, a waterproof jacket, comfortable shoes for wet ground, towel, toiletries, medication, passport/ID and insurance document.