Radical Popular Education

This project aims to develop innovative tools, methods, and approaches tailored to popular education organizations and youth workers to strengthen civic engagement among young Europeans—particularly those living in remote, rural, or marginalized areas. In a rapidly changing world, the initiative focuses on empowering young people to take action on key social and ecological challenges, including gender equality, territorial inequalities, climate change, social exclusion, and anti-discrimination. Through translocal and European collaboration, immersive experimentation, and the integration of artistic, cultural, and embodied practices, the project seeks to enhance the quality and recognition of youth work while fostering inclusion and diversity. It will pilot around ten innovative methods, organize one European gathering and three innovation labs with partner organizations, publish a practical handbook, and support more than 200 organizations across Europe in strengthening meaningful youth civic participation.

European Lab (France)
A 5-day European seminar bringing together 25 participants from France, Germany, and Serbia to build a shared framework, test innovative civic education tools, and prepare the three national Labs. It focuses on innovation, gender equality, systemic oppression, and youth participation from marginalized territories.

Germany Lab in Berlin – Challenging Power & Transforming Movements
A 5-day peer-to-peer laboratory for popular education practitioners exploring how social movements may reproduce systems of oppression and privilege. Through experiential learning and collective reflection, participants examine how popular education can challenge traditional power structures and foster critical thinking, social justice, and collective empowerment. The Lab focuses on inner-to-outer transformation, strengthening facilitators’ capacity to hold space, navigate conflict, and build more equitable infrastructures between movements.

Serbia Lab – Traditional Arts & Gender Equality
A 5-day laboratory using folk songs, storytelling, and traditional arts as tools for civic engagement and gender equality in rural communities. Participants reinterpret cultural heritage to challenge patriarchal narratives and promote inclusive social change.

France Lab – Embodied & Theatre Practices
A 5-day laboratory exploring how body-based and theatrical methods (street parliament, 360° theatre, free dance) can strengthen civic participation among rural and migrant youth. It emphasizes storytelling, gender awareness, and local territorial immersion.