Our team has just returned from Ceuta, Spain, where we joined the Erasmus + training “Increasing Quality of Youth Work: Vulnerable Youth in Focus 2.0,” organised by Asociación K’MON. Together with youth workers from ten other countries, we spent an intensive week building skills to support minority and marginalised young people.
Why the course mattered to us
The programme was designed to help youth leaders:
understand how discrimination, racism and social exclusion affect minority groups;
learn and test non-formal activities that make inclusion real;
plan local follow-ups that keep the momentum going.
What the learning looked like
Minority-rights toolbox – sessions on identity, minority-majority relations and “imagine theatre” showed us easy, low-cost methods we can drop straight into workshops.
Peer-led labs – every national team, including ours, ran a short workshop so we could test ideas with real participants and get instant feedback.
Intercultural evenings & NGO fair – food, music and project pitches turned networking into something fun and memorable.
Next steps
Toolbox download – all tested session plans will be published on empower.rs.
Joint pilots – we’re drafting small follow-up projects with partners from the training to keep the cooperation alive.
Big thanks to Asociación K’MON for hosting and to every partner organisation—especially the friends who shared their stories, music and ideas late into the night. The experience strengthened our skills, our network and our belief that inclusive youth work changes lives.
