“Secret Code for Active Citizenship” is a project created by NGO members of 4 countries with the main moto “Get Active into Citizenship” in June 2019.”Secret Code for Active Citizenship” was born from the need of the consortium towards the increasing importance to train youth and youth workers to work on active citizenship in a different and innovative way, through Educational Escape Rooms, in order to promote their motivation and empowerment. The project lasts for 26 months and contains innovation.

The project will cover Poland, Sweden, Portugal and Romania. Having good geographic coverage, we hope, in the future, to enlarge its implementation to other countries. More than inspirational solutions, we want to be able to tackle some of society’s pressing challenges, pushing Europe to the forefront of innovation.

We want youth to become the next “change makers” of their local/global communities, meaning active citizens that have, not only, the skills and capacity to engage, as well as a sense of self-worth, purpose, awareness and social responsibility, creating a European Network. Together with youth workers aware and skilful for addressing youth needs and partners empowered with a cross-sectorial knowledge and a European strong network.

• promote the exchange of good practices among NGOs and other local entities;
• create an innovative Change Makers Training Experience and mobile escape rooms kits, addressing active citizenship in youth;
• increase the sense of initiative and entrepreneurship in youth at a local/global level;

• foster active participation and active citizenship in society;
• contribute to the sense of belonging as European Citizens and motivate participants to learn more about the EU, creating a European Network;
• invest in the capacity building of youth workers promoting high-quality work and innovative methods of reaching out to youth using escape rooms.

This project was born from the need of the consortium towards the increasing importance to train youth and youth workers to work on active citizenship in a different and innovative way, through Educational Escape Rooms, in order to promote their motivation and empowerment. For this we gathered different institutions (4 NGOs) with different experiences from 4 countries (PL, PT, SE and RO) to exchange good practices, and together create a new concept to work on active citizenship through Escape Rooms, strengthening cross-cooperation and a multidisciplinary approach, and, consequently, improving the quality of youth work in each organisation.

We plan to create video tutorials and portable escape rooms kits on creating/using/building the escape rooms on active citizenship. After, we will develop a Training Experience “Change Makers Academy” that applies this tool and much more in the promotion of Active Citizenship with local youth.

We will address subjects that we consider crucial in “life” as Human Rights, local and EU active participation, intercultural dialogue and social entrepreneurship. Simultaneous, transnational and local activities will occur as pilot tests of the innovative material. We want youth to become the next “change makers” of their local/global communities, meaning active citizens that have, not only, the skills and capacity to engage, as well as a sense of self-worth, purpose, awareness and social responsibility, creating a European Network.What’s more, we want to be able to tackle some of society’s pressing challenges, pushing Europe to the forefront of innovation.

After developing the intellectual outputs, we will do dissemination work. It will start among youth, youth workers, educators ect. so the results can be transferred and last for decades and be used in daily life.

Project powered by 4 organizations from Poland, Sweden, Portugal and Romania with the same values and desire to make valuable contributions. Find more about partners:

We are an international team from 4 different countries (Poland, Sweden, Portugal and Romania) with the same values and desire to make valuable contributions.