2026 – 2027
Step Up Your Game
Soft skills, empowerment and civic action:
a project designed for young people who want to grow and take action.
2026 – 2027
Step Up Your Game
Soft skills, empowerment and civic action:
a project designed for young people who want to grow and take action.
Co-funded by:
Project co-funded by the European Union · Erasmus+ KA210-YOU 2025
Beneficiaries:
Young people 15–20 · Italy and Portugal
Partner:
Inova+ (Portugal)
Co-funded by:
Project co-funded by the European Union · Erasmus+ KA210-YOU 2025
Beneficiaries:
Young people 15–20 · Italy and Portugal
Partner:
Inova+ (Portugal)
Objectives
What we want to achieve
Future orientation
Young people explore their resources, values and aspirations to build a clearer and more positive vision of their future.
Soft skills
Leadership, communication, teamwork, problem solving and adaptability, practised through games and real-life simulations.
Women’s empowerment
Young women take on active roles in the labs and in the advocacy campaign, with at least 60% female participation.
Tools for educators
A multilingual, replicable toolkit available online, with activities, reflective tools and guidelines for facilitators across Europe.
Actions
The project’s activities
A training journey in three steps
The project guides young people through three experiential modules: exploring their identity and values (Module 1: Self), developing a vision of the future (Module 2: Future), and learning to act with initiative and collaboration (Module 3: Act). All through games, simulations and reflective tools, in national labs in Italy and Portugal.
An international lab in Portugal
The transnational heart of the project is an international lab in Portugal, where Italian and Portuguese young people work side by side in mixed groups. A concrete opportunity for intercultural collaboration, putting skills such as leadership, communication and resilience to the test in a real European setting.
Co-designing an advocacy campaign
The journey doesn’t end within the walls of the lab. Participants co-design an advocacy campaign — first at transnational level, then in their own national contexts — turning their experience into a collective message addressed to their community and institutions.
Tools for those who work with young people
The project produces a free, downloadable, multilingual toolkit for educators, facilitators and trainers. The toolkit includes activities, operational sheets, evaluation tools and case studies: a concrete resource for replicating the method in other European contexts.