Let's Create Inclusive Activities

Make your activities more inclusive and diversity-aware

With this online training course, we aim to support national agencies to organise their activities in a diversity-aware way, tailored to a wide range of identities and requirements. This training invites ID officers, TCA/NET officers, and other national‑agency staff who organise events, to strengthen their skills, competencies and attitudes—so that their activities are more inclusive, and everyone feels welcome and can participate regardless of individual background or requirements.

Why participate?

In this training you will:

• Explore aspects of inclusive and diversity-aware activity design - including outreach, logistics, methods, team and communication - and understand how to prepare for and adapt to barriers and participant requirements.
• Develop a deeper awareness of (potential) participants’ requirements and the wide range of barriers that might hinder them from feeling welcome and safe.
• Reflect on why inclusion and diversity matter and how they relate to you personally and your national agency.
• Take concrete steps to improve your practices.

After the course, we will organise mentoring sessions for those who want support in planning an activity and putting the learnings into practice. The content of each mentoring session is determined in consultation with the trainers, and the duration is up to two hours.

Who is this training course for?

• This training is for ID officers, TCA/NET officers and other national agency officers who are implementing activities (with and without overnight stays).
• In particular national agency officers who are responsible for programme design, logistics, team, outreach, selection of participants or communication in activities are invited to participate in this training.
• We welcome beginners, experts and all profiles in between. What counts is that participants are open to learn more about designing inclusive and diversity-aware activities, and implementing it in work practice(s).

A non-formal learning approach

Nobody is perfect, luckily! We can all learn from each other to improve our work practices. We will start by looking at what you already bring (knowledge, attitudes, practices). Through a mix of inputs and non-formal methods (learning by doing, trying out, time for sharing and reflecting) we hope to empower you to get better in what you do. The course endeavours to be an example of an inclusive activity, so you can take tips, practices and tools from it to your own work.

Pratical information

• The training course takes place on the mornings of 12, 13, 19, and 20 November 2025. The training consists of four sessions of 3.5 hours each, with an additional 30 minutes of optional reflection per session, making a total of 14 hours plus 2 hours of optional reflection time. The draft programme is available in downloads.
• We invite each national agency to nomitate one staff member who will attend the full training course.
• Please register via this form by 6 October 2025.

Team composition

The prep team for this training is composed of:

• Hanna Schüβler (she*her) – Advisor on Inclusion and Diversity at the German National Agency.
• Solveiga Skaisgirytė (she*her) – KA2 and Inclusion and Diversity officer at the Lithuanian National Agency.
• Pieter-Jan De Graeve (he*him) – project officer at SALTO Inclusion & Diversity Resource Centre - youth.
• Anastasia Tasoula (she*her) is an inclusivity and empowerment trainer, psychologist, and founder of Be Visible Be YOU, using creativity and non-formal education to break stereotypes and build brave inclusive learning spaces. With an 8 years background in intersectional youth work but also a lifetime lived experience of disability, queerness and migration, she supports communities across the world in breaking barriers and advocating for their human rights.
• Manina Ott (she*her) is a freelance trainer and organizational developer with a focus on diversity. Working for more than 12 years in non-formal education focusing on participation, empowerment, and power-critical perspectives. In particular, she has experience in the field of (forced) migration and in supporting self-organization processes. She enjoys working with the concept of radical diversity and opening up (safer or brave) learning spaces in order to foster sustainable change.