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About the Project
This training course is designed to bring together 27 participants from 9 European countries: Albania, Bulgaria, Georgia, Greece, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania and Spain.
This project aims to address the need for more structured and effective project design in youth work. Many projects struggle to achieve their intended outcomes because they lack clear objectives, logical structure and a focus on measurable results.
Empowerment through Knowledge
This training is about more than just learning how to plan projects. It’s about gaining a way of thinking that helps you turn ideas into reality. The same principles that make a strong project -having a clear purpose, planning wisely, and aiming for real impact- can also guide you in many other parts of life and work.
Building Skills
Participants will learn simple but powerful tools to design projects that make sense, create change and last. Methods like Results-Based Management (RBM) and Theory of Change (ToC) are not only useful for project planning -they also help in problem-solving, decision-making and creating a vision for the future.
Project Design reimagined
This course is an invitation to see project design as more than a technical skill. It is a mindset you can use anywhere -whether you’re starting an initiative, leading a team or working toward personal goals. By learning these principles, you don’t just design better projects -you design better paths forward.
Project Objectives
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Key Concepts *
KNOWLEDGE
Participants will explore key principles like Results-Based Management (RBM), learning to focus on meaningful results rather than just activities. This approach helps create projects with clear goals, measurable outcomes, and real impact— and it can guide thinking in many areas beyond projects.
SOFT SKILLS
Participants will strengthen teamwork, communication, leadership, problem-solving, emotional intelligence, and a sense of ownership — skills that support success in projects and in many other areas of life.
HARD SKILLS
Participants will practice designing projects that are clear, structured, and realistic, setting strong objectives, using resources wisely, and aligning actions with desired outcomes. These skills also build the ability to think critically, evaluate progress, and create lasting solutions.
ATTITUDES & BEHAVIOURS
The course fosters a results-focused mindset, a proactive approach to planning and problem-solving, openness to feedback, and a habit of sharing knowledge. These attitudes help participants create meaningful impact wherever they apply them.
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Icebreakers and Team Building: encourage communication, problem-solving, and teamwork, setting the foundation for a supportive and effective learning environment.
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Group reflection and peer learning: promote active listening, mutual support emotional intelligence and enrich the collective learning experience
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Problem-solving and project development: develop strategic thinking by encouraging collaborative design and planning
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Interactive learning: simplify complex ideas, making them easier to apply in real-life situations
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Collaborative design: encourage ideas, shared ownership and continuous improvement
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Simulation: build confidence, decision-making and problem-solving in a safe environment
Working Methods
Participant Profile
We aim to select individuals who are eager to deepen their knowledge and skills in project design and non-formal education.
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Youth workers, NGO staff and/or interested in project design
They are professionals who are already involved in youth work or related fields and have experience working with young people or marginalized groups.
18 to 35 years old
Potential participants are in the early to mid-stages of their professional careers.
Facing fewer opportunities and/or working with fewer opportunities youth
Potential participants face challenges due to socio-economic, cultural, or geographical factors and/or they are working with youngsters facing fewer opportunities.
Interested in learning project design tools
Potential participants express an interest in enhancing their skills in project design.
Willing to learn
Potential participants are willing to adopt and apply the methodologies learned during the training within their work. Comfortable communicating in English.
Project Steps
PREPARATION
Online meeting: interactive sessions to establish a connection within participants and address possible concerns.
Establishing communication inside the national teams.
TRAINING COURSE
During the mobility phase, through brainstorming sessions and collaborative activities, participants will be supported to reflect, share experiences, and support one another while writing their project ideas based on RBM methodology and the Theory of Change approach.
FOLLOW-UP
Follow-up meetings organised by our partner organizations.
Event organised by each national team adapted to local context
Long-term follow-up
The Programme
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Arrival
Arrival
05/11
Day 1
Introduction
06/11
Day 2
Assesement
07/11
Day 3
Analysis
08/11
Day 4
Planning
09/11
Day 5
Monitoring
10/11
Day 6
Evaluation
11/11
Day 7
Communication
12/11
Day 8
Reflection
13/11
Departure
Departure
Project Venue
During the youth exchange, participants will stay at LE SORGENTI Centre which provides accommodation in rooms for 3 or 4 people with private bathrooms. The basic equipment like sheets, blankets and towels will be provided.
There's on-site kitchen with fresh meals provided by kitchen team.
Outdoor areas for reflection and connection, the rooms for working sessions are also based inside the complex.
Part of Le Sorgenti Centre serves as a recovery centre for people with addictions, for this reason, no alcohol is allowed on the territory of the facilities.
Rules & Conditions
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Respect each other’s boundaries and stories
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Be present and participate
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Keep the space substance-free – this helps everyone feel safe
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Support the shared living experience
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While we welcome any kind of diversity with open arms and actively support everybody's personal growth, we are not the appropriate context for laziness and immature attitude.
Food
3 meals + 2 coffee breaks per day will be offered to participants
The food during the project will be vegan / vegetarian.
We stand for the sustainable and mindful approach also when it comes to meals and believe that our participants will share our values and enjoy it with us
Owning the Experience
This experience is for you if you can take care of the space we're using as a group:
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Simple cleaning tasks
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Caring for common spaces
Being part of a community means everyone contributes – it is an educational choice and we believe it makes the whole experience more real and connected.
Travel costs, accommodation, food, and the programme itself are co-funded by the European Union through the ERASMUS+ program
To be entitled to reimbursement, we ask you to participate fully in the 3 steps of the project: preparation, dissemination and follow-up
Travel
The travel costs will be reimbursed for the amount shown in the original boarding passes, tickets, and invoices, up to the limits indicated in the chart below.
According to Erasmus+ regulations, participants must travel from their country of residence to the venue and back, no alternative routes are allowed. As well as no late arrivals or early departures
Amounts in the tabel below are the MAXIMUM amounts that will be reimbursed, all the costs exceeding these amounts should be covered by the participant
Arrival day -
4th of November
(arrive before 16:00 in Italy)
Departure day -
13th of November
(early morning)
Transfer will be provided by us between the train/bus station in Lecce and the venue. The cost of it is already deducted from maximum travel budget
According to Erasmus+ regulation, you can start your travel up to 48h before arrival day, and arrive back to your country the latest 48h after departure day
Travel Reimbursement
Italy - 56 EUR
Latvia - 294 EUR
Lithuania - 294 EUR
Romania - 294 EUR
Bulgaria - 294 EUR
Greece - 402 EUR
(Green Travel)
Georgia - 380 EUR
Spain - 294 EUR
Albania - 270 EUR
(Green Travel)
Participation Fee
Participation Fee
Participation
fee
For us, as a non-profit organisation, your contribution gives support to maintain our activities and keep spreading well-being among youth
We have introduced a “participation fee” as a form of a voluntary donation and the way to support our work for organising more projects like this in future.
The donation ranges from 35 to 50 euros, with the amount determined by the economic context of the participant's country.
We ask you to contribute to the implementation of the project with a participation fee:
Italy and Spain: 50 €
Latvia and Lithuania: 45 €
Albania, Romania and Bulgaria: 35 €
Get to Know Us, Meet Our Team
Loïs Boulet
Trainer
Youth Worker and Trainer from France, founder of Viaduc Association and HR Manager of Associazione Vagamondo. He has wide experience in management and he has been involved many Erasmus+ projects all around Europe as facilitator, trainer and coordinator. His main interests are personal developement, self-awareness and entrepreneurship.
Valentina Biancalana
Trainer
Youth worker, trainer in coordinating and designing projects, with 12 years of experience in the NGO sector, where she started as a volunteer for the Red Cross, dealing with projects focused on social inclusion, supporting office tasks and fundraising. She worked for a year in Albania with Engim Internazionale in writing international cooperation projects. She has an academic background in international cooperation, focused in project design and management.
Adelina Popova
Photographer / Videographer
Youth worker and ESC coordinator for New Wellness Education, with a specific academic background in marketing and design, that is applying to the NGO sector. Her expertise and experience will be crucial to support the visibility aspects of project design, as they are crucial for the long-term impact.
Our vision. Our mission.
Our story.
In New Wellness Education we are passionate about creating educating opportunities for everyone, and especially young people who are looking for their own life path.
We believe in power of non-formal education, experiential learning, and outdoor education - thing that make your learning joyful and memorable.
We organise Erasmus+ projects and ESC Volunteering projects in Bergolo every year bringing more and more people together.
New Wellness Education offers opportunities to raise mental and physical well-being for youth and adults, individuals and institutions, in daily life, while studying and at the workplace.
Meet our Partners
From Concept to Impact
via Scardino Peregrino 34, 73100, Lecce (LE), Italy