Key Information
| 26/10/2026 - 04/11/2026Arrival / Departure | Agrigento, Sicily, Italy | 28 SeptemberApplication Deadline |
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💡 About the Project
Digital Shift is an Erasmus+ Training Course focused on digitalisation in youth work.
Digitalisation increasingly shapes how young people communicate, learn, participate and engage with the world around them. This creates new opportunities for youth work, while also asking youth workers to adapt their methods, competences and professional judgement.
This Training Course explores how digital approaches and tools can be meaningfully integrated into non-formal education and everyday youth-work practice. Participants will exchange experiences, experiment with practical methods and consider how digitalisation can support learning, participation, inclusion, communication and engagement.
The course is not simply about learning to use tools. It is about understanding when, why and how digital approaches add value. Participants will leave with tested ideas they can adapt within their organisations and local communities.
The programme is based on non-formal education and experiential learning, including team building, simulations, peer learning, group work, practical labs, reflection, discussions, audiovisual methods and collaborative design.
🎯 Objectives
- Strengthen digital competence and build confidence in selecting and using digital approaches in youth work.
- Improve learning design by exploring practical ways to combine digital elements with experiential and non-formal learning.
- Support participation and inclusion by using digitalisation to widen access, engagement and meaningful youth participation.
- Encourage critical and responsible practice by reflecting on wellbeing, accessibility, ethics, privacy, online safety and the limits of digital tools.
- Create transferable practices by developing ideas and methods that participants can test, adapt and share after the course.
👥 Target Group
- 3 participants per partner organisation.
- Active youth workers, trainers, facilitators, educators, project coordinators and volunteers who work directly with young people and the sending organisation.
- Age: 18+, with no upper age limit.
- Able to communicate and work in English.
- Interested in digital youth work and non-formal education.
- Ready to contribute experience, questions and practices from their organisation.
- Committed to full participation and to local follow-up after the course.
- Open to intercultural learning, teamwork and collaborative experimentation.
- Participants must bring a laptop or tablet, as it is necessary for the sessions.
🏠 About the Location
The mobility will take place in Agrigento, Sicily, Italy, at Hotel Tre Torri, located at Viale Cannatello n. 7, Villaggio Mosè, Agrigento.
🏡 Venue: Hotel Tre Torri
🚆 How to Get There
- There are several ways to reach Agrigento, Sicily. The most common arrival airports are Catania Airport (CTA) and Palermo Airport (PMO).
- From Catania Airport (CTA): direct buses to Agrigento depart every 40–60 minutes and the journey takes approximately 2h30–3h. More details: SAIS Trasporti.
- From Palermo Airport (PMO): direct buses to Agrigento are available, with limited daily departures at 10:45, 12:15, 17:30 and 19:30. More information: Autolinee Sal.
- Alternatively, participants can travel via Palermo city by taking a bus or train from the airport to Palermo Central Station and then continuing by train or bus to Agrigento. Departures are available approximately every 60 minutes.
- From Agrigento to the hotel: take local Bus 2 or 2/ from Piazzale Rosselli to Villaggio Mosè (Hotel 3 Torri). Tickets cost approximately €1.20 and can be bought at the ticket office at Piazzale Rosselli.
- Bus schedules for Bus 2 and 2/: Trasporti Urbani Agrigento.
- If your flight is delayed or arrives late and you can no longer catch the bus from Piazzale Rosselli to the hotel, inform the organisers in advance with your approximate arrival time in Agrigento. A pickup from Piazzale Rosselli can be arranged in such cases.
✉️ Travel itineraries should be confirmed by Euromed Italia prior to booking to ensure that the dates are eligible.
💶 Financial Details
✅ Covered by Erasmus+:
- Transportation
- Accommodation
- Meals
🙌 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
- Travel itineraries should be confirmed by Euromed Italia prior to booking to ensure that the dates are eligible.
- Participants may arrive and stay a maximum of 2 days before and/or after the mobility at their own expense and responsibility.
- Booking flight tickets directly from the airline websites is recommended.
- Only economy-fare airline tickets, second-class train tickets and bus tickets are eligible for reimbursement.
- Travel by taxi and first-class travel are not eligible for reimbursement.
- Flight tickets should always be accompanied by the boarding passes, clearly stating the dates, price and name of the holder.
- For eco-friendliness, participants are encouraged to buy tickets online and check in online whenever possible.
- Follow-up and dissemination actions should be completed and shared with the organisers.
- A Learning Agreement is required to be read, filled in and signed.
📘 Important Information
- Health insurance: mandatory insurance valid in Italy during the entire period of stay, including accidents, COVID-19, emergencies, repatriation and civil responsibility.
- Travel documents: valid travel documents required for travel to Italy.
- Youthpass certificate: participants will receive a Youthpass certificate at the end of the mobility.
- Equipment: participants must bring their own laptop or tablet, as it is necessary for the sessions.
- Full participation: participants are expected to take part in the full programme and complete the required local follow-up.