Activity objectives

This seminar offers an opportunity to build partnerships between organisations with Erasmus+ Youth Accreditation and newer or less experienced youth organisations from neighbouring regions: Eastern Europe and the Caucasus, the SouthMed Region, and the Western Balkans.

What will you get?

• Meet youth organisations from Europe and neighbouring regions.
• Explore shared needs for new international projects.
• Learn about Erasmus+ Accreditation opportunities.
• Develop skills to create fair, equal, and sustainable partnerships.
• Respect and understand cultural diversity.
• Understand how to plan and run high-quality activities.

Description

New Partnerships and High-Quality Projects

This seminar offers an opportunity to build partnerships between organisations with Erasmus+ Youth Accreditation and newer or less experienced youth organisations from neighbouring regions: Eastern Europe and the Caucasus, the SouthMed Region, and the Western Balkans.

What will you get?

• Meet youth organisations from Europe and neighbouring regions.
• Explore shared needs for new international projects.
• Learn about Erasmus+ Accreditation opportunities.
• Develop skills to create fair, equal, and sustainable partnerships.
• Respect and understand cultural diversity.
• Understand how to plan and run high-quality activities.

What Is Accreditation?

Accreditation allows organisations to receive annual project funding without needing to describe each activity in advance. Partnering with accredited organisations means no applications are required, so you can focus directly on creating strong, quality projects.
Only organisations from EU Member States and other programme countries can receive accreditation.

Eligible Activities Include:

• Youth exchanges
• Youth worker mobility activities (including planning visits, study visits, job shadowing, and more).

Who Can Join?

This seminar is open to 50 participants: 25 from programme countries and 25 from neighbouring regions.

Participants must:

• Represent organisations that run grassroots youth work activities.
• Be interested in forming new partnerships for international projects.
• Have a decision-making role in their organisation regarding future activities.
• Be able to work in understandable English

Additional Requirements:

• Participants from programme countries must represent accredited organisations.
• Participants from neighbouring regions can be newcomers without prior Erasmus+ experience, though experienced organisations can also apply.

Programme Details

This event includes an online pre-meeting and a residential seminar in Durrës, Albania:

• 19 May: Arrival
• 20 May: Exploring Erasmus+ Accreditation and common needs
• 21 May: Building equal and sustainable partnerships
• 22 May: Developing partnerships and project ideas
• 23 May: Departures

A detailed programme will be shared with selected participants before their arrival.

Online Pre-Meeting: Breaking the Ice

Before the seminar, participants will meet online on Monday May 5, 2025 at 14:00 CET (90 min). This session helps you get to know the group, learn about participating organisations, and share your pre-task results to prepare for the main event.

The programme will be led by experienced trainers:

• Annamaria Simeone (Italy)
• Anna Yeghoyan (Armenia)
• Antti Korhonen (Finland)

Additional support will be provided by National Agencies and SALTO representatives.

Organisers

This activity is organised by the Finnish and Italian National Agencies and SALTO SEE as part of the "Beyond Borders" strategic partnership.

Beyond Borders is a collaboration between National Agencies in Czechia, Croatia, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Lithuania, Poland, Slovenia, Switzerland, Turkey, and the SALTO Resource Centres (Eastern Europe and Caucasus, EuroMed, and South East Europe). It aims to strengthen youth cooperation between programme and neighbouring countries within Erasmus+ and the European Solidarity Corps.

Learn more: https://beyondb.eu/

Small Steps to a Better World

At this event, we follow the principles of creating a safer space. We aim to ensure everyone feels welcome as their true self, without fear of discrimination or harassment. We ask you to respect these principles as well.

Our activities are designed to be accessible to people with different abilities. If you need a support person, an accessible room or transport, or any other form of assistance, we will provide it. Please share your individual needs in advance so we can support your participation.

We are committed to sustainability wherever possible. We encourage you to consider low-emission or on-land travel to international events, if it is possible.

We also respect all dietary requirements and food allergies.