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What a tour de force!✨🏆 Our project “ATHENA - Advancing Women’s Leadership in Inclusive Democracy” has won the 1st Prize at the European Charlemagne Youth Prize 2026🇪🇺🙏🏻

What began as a commitment to strengthening women’s leadership and democratic participation has now been elevated to the highest European stage by the European Parliament ( ) and the Charlemagne Foundation - and we are still trying to process the scale of this moment.

ATHENA was built around a reality that still shapes Europe: too many young women continue to face structural barriers in political, civic, and institutional spaces, while also carrying limiting beliefs shaped by systems that have long made leadership feel distant, difficult, or inaccessible. Through the project, we worked to strengthen leadership, confidence, advocacy, democratic participation, and institutional engagement, so that more young women can shape public life with legitimacy, visibility, and power.

We are deeply grateful to everyone who was a rock-solid part of this journey - our participants, decision-makers, diplomats, industry experts, and every person who believed in the vision behind ATHENA.

We also warmly congratulate all the inspiring national winners from across Europe🌟. Standing alongside so many powerful youth-led initiatives has been an honour in itself.🫂

Thank you , and for this recognition. We carry it with immense gratitude, humility, and responsibility.💙🇪🇺

📢 Calling Swedish🇸🇪, Croatian🇭🇷 and Estonian🇪🇪 Participants for a Training Course in Italy 🇮🇹

🔖 Name: Non Formal Lab 3.0– Crossroads
🔢 Age: 18+
📅 Date: 21–27 May, 2026
🌍 Location: Presenzano, Italy🇮🇹

What’s Covered:
🏡 Accommodation during the project
✈️ Travel costs (according to Erasmus+ distance band)
🥗 All meals throughout the project

📝 Application Form (Link in Bio): https://forms.gle/f9c1oRE3oXBBDCd99
📌 Infopack (Link in Bio): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ivwIeVfU_pR6CGHBXU_1KHydeyb0g3Ub/view?usp=drive_link

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Non Formal Lab 3.0 - Crossroads is an Erasmus+ mobility of youth workers that aims to strengthen the competences of youth workers, leaders, and volunteers in designing and delivering more effective educational activities by bridging formal and non-formal education. The project creates a practical space for experimentation, peer learning, and professional growth, supporting participants to compare different approaches, test new methods, and develop more engaging learning paths for young people. Through non-formal education principles and hands-on practices, participants will explore how to build inclusive learning environments, improve the quality of youth work, and strengthen the capacity of NGOs to evaluate and improve the impact of their educational initiatives.
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Thank you for your participation!
CET Platform Italy: [email protected]
EUnexus: [email protected]

📢 Calling Estonian 🇪🇪 Participants for a Youth Exchange in Italy 🇮🇹

🔖 Name: Recreating Beauty
🔢 Age: 18–30 years (group leader can be 30+)
📅 Date: 12–19 June, 2026
🌍 Location: Palermo, Italy

What’s Covered:
🏡 Accommodation during the project
✈️ Travel costs (according to Erasmus+ distance band)
🥗 All meals throughout the project

📝 Application Form (Link in Bio): https://forms.gle/mVBPUCSJrme5YrnX9

📌 Infopack (Link in Bio): https://www.canva.com/design/DAG-8rMgQms/AlsqlRJVFjva2NJG4DNJiA/view?utm_content=DAG-8rMgQms&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link&utm_source=viewer
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🟢The project aims to explore and critically reflect on culturally constructed ideals of beauty, and interdependence, boundaries, fostering awareness, empathy, and inclusive practices in both personal and social contexts.

Through non-formal education, group processes, and reflective activities, participants will examine dominant beauty norms and social expectations, understand consent as an ongoing and relational process, strengthen awareness of personal boundaries, and develop the ability to communicate and respect them.

The project also focuses on cultivating empathy, solidarity, and interdependence, while co-creating shared principles for safer, more inclusive, and supportive social spaces.
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Thank you for your participation!
EUnexus
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