Young people from four European countries gathered in Valchiusella to tell their stories through participatory cinema Alice Superiore, Valchiusella (Italy), June 2026 From 4 to 14 June 2026, the Valchiusella valley in the Italian Alps hosted DC-RYE – Documentary Circles Rural Youth Exchange, an international Erasmus+ youth exchange organised by AUDRA APS that brought together…
Traditional techniques, local materials and collective learning to explore different ways of building. How can we recover traditional building knowledge and put it at the service of today’s needs? This is one of the questions behind “Clay and Straw as a Key: Traditional Techniques Applied to Contemporary Construction”, a learning project developed by Creando Floresta,…
Turning Collective Visions into Living Reality By Amir Zadah, Guus Verelst & Yassen Youriev Stoyanov What if project management didn’t start with deadlines and pressure but with dreams, connection, and genuine excitement? That’s exactly where Dragon Dreaming begins. It all started in March, when 27 international youth work enthusiasts arrived at Sunny Hill in Slovenia…
As the calendar turned to 2026, most of the world was making resolutions and diving headfirst into the new year. But for a group of youth workers gathered at Sunny Hill in Slovenia, the year began differently. It began with a pause. From January 13th to 19th, Zavod Veles hosted “Let’s Celebrate!”, a training course…
In October 2025, twenty-four young people and four group leaders from Italy, France, Spain and Denmark gathered in Val di Chy, a small mountain municipality in the Valchiusella valley (Piedmont, Italy), for the Erasmus+ youth exchange SIN(G)ERGY. The project, hosted by AUDRA APS within the Yes to Sustainability network and rooted in the experience of…
This was an international mobility for youth workers that brought together, in the beautiful setting of a little town by the sea in the south of Italy, Giovinazzo, 21 participants from Italy, France, Greece, Poland, Cyprus, Serbia, and Spain to explore storytelling as a tool for activism, participatory decision-making, and social change. The project, organised by MOH…
– from the eye of the participants – From Learners to Facilitators: Eight Days in Smolnik From 5-12 November 2025 at Smolnik Youth Home in the Pohorje hills, thirty youth workers and educators gathered for an Erasmus-supported training led by Jošt Kozelj and Petra Jazbec, co-facilitators with nine years of experience across national and international…
Surrounded by over 70 varieties of native Irish apple trees that were nourishing us during every break, from 3rd to 11th of October 2025, 24 youth workers and young people representing 15 different organizations gathered in Cloughjordan Ecovillage, Ireland. We came together to explore two main themes: PEACE EDUCATION Adopting an experimental and participatory approach,…
Leaders in Nature: Our Journey at Veles Farm: In the heart of Slovenia, surrounded by fields, forests, and mountains, we came together at Veles Farm for a week that was not just about learning leadership, but about living it. The farm became our home, our tents, and our kitchen, where every sunrise invited new experiences…
Transformative Training on Inclusion, Privilege, and Collective Liberation in Lakabe From May 21st to 26th, a diverse group of 20 participants gathered in the inspiring community of Lakabe, nestled in the Basque Country, for a profound exploration of inclusion, gender, privilege, power, discrimination, and oppression. This training, titled Beyond Inclusion, brought together individuals from Spain,…