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Training course "Today’s choices: Career UP"
Training Course
8-13 March 2026 | Birštonas, Lithuania
"Today’s choices: Career UP" is an international training course designed for youth workers and professionals active in non-formal learning who support young people in their personal, educational, and career development.
The training responds to the growing uncertainty young people face when making career-related decisions in a fast-changing social and labour-market context. Career guidance is approached not as a one-time choice, but as a lifelong and evolving process, closely linked to self-understanding, values, competences, and external influences.
Over six days, participants explore how to provide modern, non-formal career guidance that is realistic, youth-centred, and empowering. The programme combines short theoretical inputs with a strong focus on experiential learning, reflection, peer exchange, and hands-on practice. Participants work with concrete methods they can directly transfer to their daily work with young people.
Key focus areas include:
- supporting young people in self-awareness and self-understanding,
- facilitating decision-making under uncertainty,
- addressing decision anxiety and information overload,
- career exploration without pressure to “choose once and for all”,
- strengthening resilience, adaptability, and motivation,
- using non-formal and digital tools in career guidance.
The training is highly interactive and uses non-formal education methods such as reflection labs, group work, simulations, facilitation practice, and guided peer learning. Special attention is given to the role of youth workers as facilitators and supporters, rather than decision-makers, in young people’s career processes.
The course is specifically targeted at youth workers, educators, social workers, counsellors, youth project coordinators, and mentors of youth volunteers who work in non-formal settings and wish to strengthen their competences in career guidance. By the end of the training, participants leave with increased confidence, practical tools, and a clearer framework for supporting young people in building sustainable and flexible career pathways.
> Registration deadline: February 8, 2026
> Selection results announced: February 13, 2026
This training is part of the project No. 2025-1-LT02-KA151-YOU-000300777 co-funded by the European Union.
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Apply now! Application deadline (24h UTC): 8 February 2026 Date of selection: 13 February 2026Training overview
http://trainings.salto-youth.net/14320
This Training Course is
for 24 participants
from Erasmus+ Youth Programme countries 
and recommended for
Youth workers, Trainers, Youth leaders, Youth project managers, Youth policy makers, Volunteering mentors, Youth coaches, Youth researchers
Working language(s):
English
Society and Enterprise Development Institute (Others)
The Society and Enterprise Development Institute (SEDI) is a thriving NGO dedicated to fostering social and civic engagement, volunteering, and entrepreneurship. Our team excels in executing impactful local, national, and international projects, including youth initiatives, training courses, and strategic partnerships. SEDI's strategic goals include promoting entrepreneurship, volunteering, inclusivity, and civic participation. You can learn more about us in the infopack or visit our website www.vvpi.lt
Contact for questions:
Vladas
E-Mail:
Phone: +37064398771
Costs
Participation fee
The training is free of charge. Project partners (sending organization) could apply administration fee.
Accommodation and food
During the training, participants will be provided with:
- Accommodation;
- 3 meals per day with additional coffee/tea breaks.
Travel reimbursement
Travel (flights, other means of transport) expenses are reimbursed (up to 100%), based on the distance from your location of residence to the location of the project.
We encourage you to choose green travel!
Travel expenses will be reimbursed - see details in the INFOPACK (pages 13-20) and Travel rules - checklist.