WIRED: The Co-Creation and Participation Experience

WIRED: The Co-Creation and Participation Experience

A blended learning training project with 2 residential training courses and online learning

Are you ready to be jazzed and co-create? Join us for "Wired: The Co-Creation and Participation Experience", a blended learning pathway with two residential seminars and online learning. The first residential training course will be held at EJBW in Weimar, Germany, from the 22nd to 28th of April 2025, the second happening will be at the Blue Whale Educational Center in Tauchen, Austria, from the 7th - to 13th July 2025. Two online learning phases are foreseen: before the first training course (as a preparation for the WIRED learning experience), and in between the two training courses as a “co-creation remote phase”.

Information on participation “Wired: The Co-Creation & Participation Experience in 79 words

We believe that “Co-creation and Participation” are at the heart of impactful youth work. This training offers you an opportunity to dive deep into these concepts, understand the competences needed to facilitate them, and experience them. “WIRED” is designed for youth workers, trainers, educators and team leaders eager to deepen their practice. “WIRED” combines interactive learning, playful exploration, and practical application to empower you to create meaningful co-creative environments, to co-creatively design educational programmes, to facilitate co-creative learning processes.

And 5 objectives:

• Provide participants with the competences needed to design and facilitate co-creation and participation processes.
• Foster a deep understanding of the ETS Competence Model for Youth Workers and its application.
• Create a playful space that allows experimentation and learning through and intriguing playground
• Guide participants in collaboratively designing an activity programme for the second training course in Austria
• Put the peer-learning dimension at the centre of the learning process

Who should apply?

This training is for youth workers, trainers, facilitators, educators and team leaders from Erasmus+ programme countries who:

• Are willing to learn about co-creation and participation.
• Want to develop competences to support collaborative processes.
• Are ready to co-create and contribute to the 2nd training course programme planned in July in Austria.

Information on participation

Given that the module is structured as a comprehensive package, which includes two training activities, preparation and an intervening practice phases, we highly recommend participation in both training activities for the full experience.