Projects
Since 2019, EdUcAntwerp has actively developed and participated in a wide range of projects under Erasmus+ and European Solidarity Corps. Over the years, we have coordinated, hosted, and partnered in numerous Youth Exchanges, Training Courses, Study Visits, Strategic Partnerships (KA2), and smaller local and international initiatives. The diversity of topics and collaborations reflects our continuous commitment to youth empowerment, inclusion, innovation, and cross-border cooperation. It is impossible to list all projects here, but below you will find a selection of some projects and ongoing projects that represent our work.
Shoot 4 Dreams I & II
EdUcAntwerp is organizing Shoot for Dreams I & II. Young girls who play football get to know each other and themselves during an intercultural exchange that will take place in Tenerife with Belgian, Spanish and Dutch football players.
Game For Change I and II
A dynamic training focused on using game-based learning as a tool for social inclusion, empowerment, and non-formal education. Youth workers explored how playful methodologies can engage vulnerable youth and promote personal development.
Healthy mindset For Social Inclusion
Aims to tackle issues like stress, anxiety, and low self-esteem among young people. Using peer-to-peer coaching, physical movement, journaling, and expressive arts, participants explore their mental health in a safe and guided context.
Value of Youth
Youth employment based on personal values and creativity. With 24 young people in the basics of personal branding as a concept of personal development. Methodology emerged as a technique for job search and consistent in the improvement of personal characteristics, through the perception that others have of him/herself. Personal branding is essentially the ongoing process of establishing a personal image of an individual, group, or organization based on one’s own values and competence.
CuReHa
(Culture, Religion, Harmony)
An intercultural youth exchange bringing together young people from diverse cultural and religious backgrounds. Through intercultural and interreligious dialogue, participants explored how shared understanding and mutual respect can foster peaceful coexistence, strengthen identity, and promote inclusive communities.
Study visit: Hostel - Portugal
A professional exchange programme designed for professionals and managers to explore how locally-driven social entrepreneurship can operate through hostel models. Participants visited local hostel in Portugal that combine hospitality with community-building, youth engagement, and inclusive employment opportunities, offering insights into sustainable and socially impactful business models within the youth and social sector.
Incluniverse
A unique youth exchange designed as an inclusive learning experience for both young people with disabilities and youth workers. Through mixed group activities, participants explored how youth work can create accessible environments, promote understanding, and build inclusive practices that empower young people with diverse abilities.
Mental Balance
A training course focusing on mental health awareness, emotional resilience, and wellbeing among young people and youth professionals, combining non-formal education with therapeutic practices.
And Period - menstrual health education
And PERIOD. promotes inclusion and diversity through menstrual education for youth and youth workers. It implements local/international workshops and youth exchanges to empower menstruating youth, challenge taboos, and encourage self-acceptance. It also includes a documentary and a crowdfunding campaign to support Ukrainian/Palestinian people who menstruate with essential products. Through education and activism, the initiative fosters critical thinking and social engagement among young people.
Hero Vs Villian - The Power of Role models
A youth exchange that brought together young people to explore the power of positive role models in shaping personal growth, leadership, and identity. Through interactive activities, dialogue, and peer learning, participants reflected on role models' influence in overcoming challenges and building confidence.
PBA Basket as a tool
An international networking activity where organizations explored the power of basketball as a tool for inclusion, social integration, and community development.
TOMes
An innovative training focused on language acquisition for non-native speakers and newly arrived migrants. Using creative and interactive non-formal learning methods, participants explored how alternative approaches can support language learning, build communication skills, and foster social inclusion for young newcomers.
Harmony in chaos
A training programme supporting youth workers in managing conflict situations, both within themselves and in their work with young people. Through practical exercises, self-reflection, and conflict resolution strategies, participants developed skills to navigate tensions, build resilience, and foster constructive dialogue in challenging youth work contexts.
Social sport PRAXIS and well-being work
This training explored how social sports methodologies can contribute to wellbeing, resilience, and community building, using physical activity as a bridge for personal and social empowerment.
SpOrting for WEllness of YOUTH: The Synergy of Social Sports and Well-being Initiatives (SOWELL4YOUTH)
An international cooperation project focused on the synergy between social sports and wellbeing initiatives. It developed new tools to address physical, mental, and social wellbeing through sport-based youth work methodologies.
Youth Empowerment through Role Models – A Social Sports Development Program (YERM)
This project created a comprehensive model for using role models within social sports practices to empower vulnerable youth, promote leadership, and strengthen positive identity development.
ATIS TIRMA
A youth exchange empowering young participants to take full ownership of project design and implementation. Starting from scratch, participants were challenged to plan, organize, budget, and execute activities, developing leadership, organizational, and teamwork skills. The exchange fostered active citizenship, entrepreneurial thinking, and hands-on experience in youth-led project management.
SPRKL
A collaborative initiative uniting several local organizations in Antwerp to provide targeted support and guidance for young people from specific neighbourhoods. Through coordinated mentoring, activities, and community-based programmes, SPRKL offers vulnerable youth pathways to personal development, empowerment, and active participation in their local community.
Liseaux
A training programme designed to strengthen the competences of youth workers, trainers, and facilitators in their professional roles. Through practical skill-building sessions, participants explored new methodologies, facilitation techniques, and personal leadership development, enabling them to better support and empower young people in their local communities.
Upcoming projects...
Outreach sports
A cooperation project developing accessible outdoor sports programmes for socially vulnerable youth, integrating inclusion, competence-building and low-threshold community engagement.
Keeping Up With Your Roots: Morocco Edition
An intercultural youth exchange exploring heritage, identity and cultural roots among youth with Moroccan backgrounds living in Europe, promoting dialogue and mutual understanding.
Pray, Play & Unite
Brings together young people and youth professionals from different religious and cultural backgrounds. Using sports and creative dialogue as bridges, the project aims to combat prejudice, promote inclusion and foster understanding across communities.
BounceBack
A multi-country collaboration focused on sport as a tool for resilience, personal development, and re-engagement of NEET youth. This project also contributes to building capacity within youth organizations through the development of training modules and certification schemes.
Sports and Resilience
A training focusing on how trauma-sensitive sport practices can foster emotional resilience, wellbeing, and recovery among youth facing adversity.
The Power of Sportsmanship
A training exploring values-based youth work, leadership, and inclusion through the lens of sportsmanship, respect, and ethical behaviour in competitive and non-competitive settings.
CampClusion
An inclusive youth exchange combining sport, language learning, and cultural activities to promote integration, community building, and mutual respect among diverse youth.
FUTURE: Fostering edUcational Technologies for Upskilling of Released prisonErs
An innovative cooperation project aimed at developing digital educational tools and social reintegration pathways for formerly incarcerated individuals, with strong links to youth and community work.