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.
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
Over this course of eight months, designed for young activists and leaders, participants will put learning into practice by creating a concrete community action (such as an artivist intervention, a citizen assembly, a podcast, a publication, or a public event), learn how to organise communities and identify pressing issues, develop skills to design collective solutions and campaigns.
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
The MYCELIA mentorship program seeks to unite young people across Europe to collaborate and construct a youth-activist network for peer-learning, resource exchange and action-oriented civic engagement, seeking to develop sustainable futures leadership.
Deadline: 15 September
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MOOC – Youth, Democracy and Technology
Free Online Course
The course explores how young people engage with democracy, the challenges and opportunities of digital technologies, and the role of arts and activism in creating change. Seven interactive modules with quizzes, videos, and real-life case studies.
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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)
Movement Learning Catalyst
The Movement Learning Catalyst is an action-learning programme designed to strengthen transnational and transversal movements across Europe. It brings together experienced activists, organisers, and educators in a collective journey of training, reflection, and strategic collaboration.
Through a mix of online and residential trainings, mentorship, and peer-to-peer inquiry, participants develop the skills, relationships, and strategic capacities needed to respond to today’s interconnected crises. The programme fosters solidarity-based networks across movements, bridging divides of gender, race, class, and geography, and cultivates the creativity and resilience required to build long-term strategies for social transformation.
Countries Involved
Europe and beyond
Duration of Project
2022-2025
Speak Out
European Alternatives and Erasmus Student Network have launched a series of four open webinars, designed to train and inspire young change-makers, that took place in February and March 2025. These sessions provided valuable insights into tackling pressing issues such as underrepresentation, leveraging local and EU-level action, analysing policies and stakeholders, and crafting impactful messages for recruitment and advocacy.
Countries Involved
Europe
Duration of Project
2025
Partners
Erasmus Student Network
School of Transnational Organising
A grassroots school where everyday people, social movement builders, trade union organizers, migrant workers, climate justice activists, community artists as well as marginalized communities meet to learn the tools and skills to master the lost art of organizing solidarity and together shape the landscape of what we think is possible.
Countries Involved
Europe
Duration of Project
ongoing
MOOC: Art and Digital Transformation
This course is primarily aimed at changemakers who want to build a better digital future with the help of the arts. It will teach you how the arts can influence technology development through art and enterprise collaborations; how the arts can assist citizens and civil society in making sense of and overcoming the challenges brought on by the Digital Transformation; and how the arts can influence the processes of regulation, policy-making, and legislation within the Digital Transformation.
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Countries Involved
Europe
Duration of Project
ongoing
Partners
ArtsFormation
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.
Countering Hate Speech and Far Right Radicalism in CEE
The current political framing, shaped by hate speech and far-right proponents, led national governments to make policy choices that often restrain fundamental rights of people in Europe. As illiberal democracies seem to be on the rise, we are once again moving into a period of strengthening domestic positions through demonising minority groups, undermining the conditions for transnational, open and democratic societies to thrive.
To counteract those trends, European Alternatives, in collaboration with the Foundation Responsability Remembrance and Future, run a series of two trainings in March and May 2018, bringing together activists and citizens willing to stand against hate speech and far-right radicalism in Central and Eastern Europe.
Countries Involved
Europe
Duration of Project
2018
Partners
Foundation Responsability Remembrance and Future
