Focus on Active Citizenship – Empower Myself 2025 - 3rd Weekend
In mid-December, the third weekend of the training series was held within the framework of the Empower Myself project. This marked the third occasion we met with the young people participating in the programme.
During this weekend, we continued our work on developing key competencies that support young people in becoming conscious, responsible and active adults.
As part of the Empower Myself Erasmus+ project, our four-weekend career orientation programme was launched at the end of October 2025. The project aims to support young people growing up in socially disadvantaged environments in their career choices and future labour market integration. The programme targets participants aged 14–16 and is delivered through practical, playful and experience-based weekends.
The central theme of the third weekend was active citizenship. Throughout the weekend, the focus was on responsibility, communication, cooperation and community participation. Through group sessions and shared tasks, participants experienced what it means to function responsibly as part of a community, take initiative, think together and cooperate with others.
We are very pleased to see that the young participants have been investing significant effort into the joint process from the very beginning. By the third weekend, this commitment became clearly tangible: participants communicate with increasing confidence, reflect more consciously on their own functioning, and show visible development in critical thinking, future planning and teamwork skills.
It is evident that consistent and dedicated work bears fruit, and that these competencies provide a strong long-term foundation for young people’s future personal development and successful integration into the labour market.
As the Christmas holiday season approached, Sunday was already filled with a festive atmosphere. We concluded our joint work with a feedback exercise based on gift-giving, while tuning in together to the upcoming holidays.
We would like to thank the young participants for their committed involvement and perseverance, the teachers for their supportive and cooperative attitude, the volunteers for their continuous assistance, and the Betlehem Mission Centre in Jelka (Slovakia) for providing the venue.
The Empower Myself project is implemented with the support of the European Union.
More information about the project is available here.
