About the project

Communication by Connection is a beginner-level training course designed for youth workers who want to strengthen their communication and facilitation skills while learning how to create safer, more inclusive environments for young people.

Throughout the training, participants will explore topics such as discrimination, communication styles, conflict management, and Nonviolent Communication (NVC), using a combination of experiential learning, practical exercises, peer exchange, and reflection.

The project responds to current social challenges affecting young people, including discrimination, bullying, social exclusion and increasing polarization within communities. By developing empathetic communication skills and conflict-sensitive approaches, participants will gain practical tools that can be directly transferred into their daily youth work practice.

The training will also create space for international cooperation, exchange of good practices and co-creation of educational resources that can continue to be used by participants and partner organizations after the project ends.

To achieve its aim, the project focuses on the following objectives:

• Strengthening the professional capabilities of 30 youth workers in inclusive communication and conflict-sensitive facilitation through structured training, peer learning and experiential exercises, enabling them to better respond to the needs of diverse groups of young people.

• Increasing the quality and novelty of youth work practices by elaborating a set of practical and flexible digital tools that would support youth workers and organizations in educating on open and empathetic communication and inclusion among young people.

• Building a sustainable international community of youth workers and organizations, enabling co-creation of adaptable tools that can be integrated into local youth work realities, continuous exchange of practices and joint reflection on youth work challenges.