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You may download, adapt, translate and republish any of these materials, including in your own training. We ask only that you credit the Safe Spaces project.

Safe Spaces is an Erasmus+ Cooperation Partnership in the field of Youth, running from September 2025 to September 2027.

How to use these materials

The project

Who built Safe Spaces, the partner organisations, and how this Erasmus+ Cooperation Partnership works.

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The research

What safeguarding looks like across the European youth sector, and where the gaps are.

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Credits and acknowledgements

Safe Spaces is the work of four partner organisations and a number of people who gave it their time, expertise and honest criticism.

Authorship

The Safe Spaces Toolkit, the seven eLearning modules and the research underpinning both were produced by:

Andreea Rabota-Buzec — Association Colour Your Dreams (Romania)
Oonagh Aitken and Piotr Sadowski — Volonteurope (Belgium)
Cristian Băbuțău and Alina Profir — EIVA Association (Romania)
Nerijus Miginis — Elektrėnai kultūros centras (Lithuania)

Expert review

Renee Wolforth, independent Protection and Safeguarding Consultant, reviewed both the Toolkit and the eLearning modules.

Sian Bagshaw, Expert in Safeguarding Processes and Policy, reviewed the Toolkit and endorses it.

The partners

Four organisations across Europe built Safe Spaces together.

CYD

Association Colour Your Dreams

Târgu Jiu, Romania (coordinator)

EKC

Elektrėnai Kultūros Centras

Elektrėnai, Lithuania

EIVA

EIVA Association

Arad, Romania

Volonteurope

Brussels, Belgium

Find out more about the partners

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Everything here is free to use

You may download, adapt, translate and republish any of these materials, including in your own training. We ask only that you credit the Safe Spaces project.

Safe Spaces is an Erasmus+ Cooperation Partnership in the field of Youth, running from September 2025 to September 2027.

How to use these materials

The project

Who built Safe Spaces, the partner organisations, and how this Erasmus+ Cooperation Partnership works.

find out more

The research

What safeguarding looks like across the European youth sector, and where the gaps are.

find out more

Credits and acknowledgements

Safe Spaces is the work of four partner organisations and a number of people who gave it their time, expertise and honest criticism.

Authorship

The Safe Spaces Toolkit, the seven eLearning modules and the research underpinning both were produced by:

Andreea Rabota-Buzec — Association Colour Your Dreams (Romania)
Oonagh Aitken and Piotr Sadowski — Volonteurope (Belgium)
Cristian Băbuțău and Alina Profir — EIVA Association (Romania)
Nerijus Miginis — Elektrėnai kultūros centras (Lithuania)

Expert review

Renee Wolforth, independent Protection and Safeguarding Consultant, reviewed both the Toolkit and the eLearning modules.

Sian Bagshaw, Expert in Safeguarding Processes and Policy, reviewed the Toolkit and endorses it.

The partners

Four organisations across Europe built Safe Spaces together.

CYD