Summary

This summer, come to the mountains of Slovakia and turn your ideas into real Erasmus+ youth exchanges.

At Youth Platform, you’ll spend one week with other motivated young people from across Europe, creating your own international project from scratch. With support from experienced mentors, you’ll shape your idea, plan the logistics, explore creative methods, and learn to use digital tools like Power Apps and Office 365 to organize everything like a pro.

By the end, your team will have a full project plan – clear, complete, and ready to roll. And the best part? The top project ideas will actually be implemented in 2025 within the E29 network – by you. If you’re ready to take the lead, get your hands dirty, and create something that matters – Youth Platform is for you.

What to Expect

Project Creation

You’ll create a complete Erasmus+ Youth Exchange project – from idea to plan – together with your team.

Mentorship & Teamwork

Work closely with experienced mentors and your peers to turn your vision into a real, fundable project.

Digital Tools

You’ll get hands-on with Power Apps, Office 365, and other digital tools to manage your project like a pro.

Participant Profile

  • Residents or citizens from any of these countries: Hungary, Slovakia, Czechia, Portugal

  • Optimal age range: 17-22 years old

  • Available to attend the whole duration of the program and participate in all the sessions and support project implementation during late 2025 and early 2026

  • Highly motivated to: Design and implement Erasmus+ Youth Exchange projects

  • Highly motivated to learn digital project management and event coordination tools.

  • Highly motivated to explore facilitation and non-formal education methods.

  • Proactive team players who thrive in collaborative youth led environments.

  • Expresses a willingness to disseminate the training and its results to other groups of young people.

  • Currently not receiving any funds from the European Union (e.g.: participating in an Erasmus exchange program within University).

Activity Schedule

  • Day 1: Setting the Foundations

    We will kickstart the week with team-building games and collaborative challenges. Participants will get to know each other better and prepare for tight collaboration during the week. We will explore the E29 approach through some creative icebreakers, setting the groundworks for trust, shared goals and positive collaborative environment.

  • Day 2-6: Project Building

    In teams we will turn ideas into action: Designing Youth Exchange projects from scratch. Through mentorship, hands-on tool labs and peer feedback cycles ideas will take shape, plans will evolve becoming concrete, practical and creative plans. You will learn more about all the steps you need to design impactful and viable project ideas, from non-formal education principles and methodology, to how to handle logistics and documentation, using digital project management and coordination tools, and properly communicate your project. At your side and supporting your learning process will be experienced mentors.

  • Day 7: From Vision to Action

    In the last day we will focus on finalizing our project ideas, share them and map out the next steps. We will reflect on our learning experience, celebrate it with a closing ceremony, receive our YouthPass and springboard the plans for the rest of the year. The activity will end but the creative and entrepreneurial spirit will linger with actual implementation of the projects during late 2025 and early 2026.

Team

You will be supported by a team of experienced mentors.

The E29 event coordinators come from different countries and their job will be to guide you to a perfect project.

Rui Pereira

Multimedia Manager

Lizi Kovacs

Education Coordinator

Pedro Ramalho

Event Coordinator

Location and Venue

The program will be hosted in the small town of Látky, in Slovakia, at Rolnicke Druzstvo Latky. Participants will be accommodated in shared rooms, housing 4-6 individuals, with room assignments based on international diversity and separated by gender.

Each participant will be served three meals a day: breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

Participants’ dietary preferences should be provided during the application process to ensure meals are prepared accordingly.

Travel Plan

Portugal

Meeting Points: Lisbon/Porto

Plane to Budapest or Vienna

Bus / Train to Zvolen

Private Bus to Latky

Czechia

Meeting Points: Brno/Prague

Bus / Train to Zvolen

Private Bus to Latky

Hungary

Meeting Point: Budapest

Bus / Train to Zvolen

Private Bus to Latky

Slovakia

Meeting Point: Zvolen

Bus / Train to Zvolen

Private Bus to Latky

  • Travel days will be 23rd and 31st of July.

  • The main travel tickets will be purchased and arranged by our organization. These include bus, train and flight tickets and exclude local and urban transportation.

  • For flights, we are funding only the most basic option, which includes one small backpack to be carried under the seat. You will be free to add priority or cargo luggage to your reservation, but at your own cost.

  • Each country will have a maximum of two meeting points, where participants will gather to begin their journey. Participants should arrange their own travel to the meetings points.

  • In some cases it might be needed for participants to travel one day earlier or return one day later, namely if there are no viable flight connections in the same day.

  • Once the participant selection is finished and everyone is confirmed, the project coordinators will arrange with the national group leaders to finalize the travel itinerary for each group.

  • All important info regarding travel and other topics will be available on a dedicated Discord channel of the activity, but also via e-mail.

  • Above you can find a preliminary plan for each national group. These might change depending on the availability of connections and prices.

Useful information

  • Participation costs: There are no participation costs. Travel, accommodation, and food are co-funded by the Erasmus+ program of the European Union. However, participants who are selected will need to pay a 50€ deposit to confirm their participation. This is to avoid last-minute cancelations and to cover possible damages caused by the participants on the accommodation. The money is sent back after the activity.

  • Health & Insurance: We provide insurance for our participants. However we still ask all participants to bring their European Health Insurance Cards, which can be used if they need hospital care.

  • What to bring: Identification card or passport, towel, pocket money to buy personal items (we recommend to bring cash since there might not be an ATM near the venue), laptop (if possible), national food or a typical vest for the gastro and cultural nights, speaker, board games, comfortable and enough clothes for the days of the activity and for outdoor activities as well.

  • Terms & Conditions: Refer to www.e29.eu/terms-and-conditions for detailed terms and conditions.

  • Q&A: Have doubts? Feel free to reach us through our social media channels.

  • Note: We made some changes to our application portal. Even if you already created an account, you might need to click “Sign up now”, validate your email, and create a password. All your previous data will be synchronized through your email address.

Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or AgĂŞncia Nacional Erasmus+ Juventude/Desporto e Corpo Europeu de Solidariedade. Neither the European Union nor the funding authority can be held responsible for them.

How to Take Part?

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Deadline to apply: 08.06.2025