At European Alternatives we are always learning.
We seek to create spaces to share our experiences and learn from wider movements, communities and partners. To this end, we co-create training and learning programmes for young people, activists, civil society, people interested in transnational democracy and enacting a future beyond the nation state.
Our learning approach involves a wide community of trainers, facilitators, and educators that work to train and support activists, organisations, and movements to lead more hopeful and more powerful struggles in their countries, cities, and communities.
Our offline and online educational training and workshops do not require prior academic knowledge or activist experience so everyone can become part of the next generation of organisers and movements caring for people and the planet – united across the divisions and borders of struggles, communities, and nations.
We experiment with formats and methodologies and are inspired by practices of popular education, transformative and experiential learning, place-based education and community organising.
Our offline and online educational training and workshops do not require prior academic knowledge or activist experience so everyone can become part of the next generation of organisers and movements caring for people and the planet – united across the divisions and borders of struggles, communities, and nations.
We experiment with formats and methodologies and are inspired by practices of popular education, transformative and experiential learning, place-based education and community organising.
YMCA
The Youth Movement & Campaign Accelerator offers European youth and community leaders a way to engage in, and build, European democracy, by establishing a transnational network able to connect national and local issues to EU-level policymaking.
Our newest youth education program aims to increase the engagement of young people and their communities in constructing European democracy by the creation of a network of young people aged 18-35 living in EU. These young people will be trained in ways to activate their local communities and to articulate their issues and demands, and will test out ways to take collective action in their communities.
OPEN CALL FOR YOUNG ACTIVISTS
Deadline: 17 September
Countries Involved
Europe
Duration of Project
2023 – ongoing
Co-funded by
The European Union
Partners
Schwarzkopf-Stiftung Junges Europa
Understanding Europe
CCLabs
Critical ChangeLab (CCL) is a research project led by 10 organizations across Europe. It consists of participatory action workshops and democratic education sessions centered on young people and focused on transformative change. During these sessions, young participants identify, question, and examine issues causing tensions in their daily lives, working together to imagine alternatives for a sustainable future.
MYCELIA Open Call
Mentoring Young Activists-to-be
Deadline: 15 September
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MOOC – Youth, Democracy and Technology
Free Online Course
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Countries Involved
Europe
Duration of Project
2024 – ongoing
Co-funded by
The European Union
Partners
Oulu University
Trinity College Dublin
Universitat de Barcelona
Waag Futurelab
Ars Electronica
Kersnikova
LATRA
Tactical Tech
Institut Za Drustvena Istrazivanja U Zagreb (ISRZ)
Room to Bloom
Room to Bloom, a feminist platform for ecological and postcolonial narratives of Europe. Room to Bloom brings together feminist artists with a migration background who create ecological and postcolonial narratives of Europe. By associating artists and creators who – too often – occupy a peripheral place in the world of arts and places who are considered to be geographically peripheral (Sicily, Ukraine, Poland, Greece), Room to Bloom aims at building a discourse on European Culture that is fully built on the experience and knowledge of the periphery and to bring it back to the centre.
Countries Involved
France, Sweden, Italy, Germany, Greece, Ukraine, Poland and beyond.
Duration of Project
2020 -2023
Co-funded by
The Creative Europe Programme of the European Union
Partners
Museum of World Culture, Athensyn, Avtonomi Akadimia.