Open call: Columpio

A youth exchange about creative leadership and community futures

Illustration by Watanabe Seitei CC 4.0

🗓️ Dates: Arrival on 05th and departure on March 13th of 2026 ⏲️ Deadline for application: January 15th 2026

Spend seven days in a tiny Spanish village, eating homemade food, hiking, and making new friends while exploring digital tools, and learning about communication, entrepreneurship and leadership.

We will be using hands, arts, keybords, non violent communication tools, creativity and practical methods to work on professional development. We will use non-formal education, that means you will be encouraged to teach others, share, experiment, test, research, build and publish.

✈️ Participation is free of charge (we will even cover your transport and flights*, food and accommodation).

👧 We are looking for participants (between 18 to 30 years old) from Portugal, Romania, Czech Republic, Germany, and Spain (5 from each country).

🌳 Venue: Senderiz, a 20 inhabitants village in Spanish mountains, right on the border with Portugal. You will be sleeping and working in Sende, one of the first rural coworking and coliving spaces in the world. Village houses, garages, and wineyards converted into creative spaces.

🚌 *Maximum amount we can reimburse for your travel (it means that all over this price is covered by you):

• Portugal: 211€
• Germany: 309€
• Romania: 395€
• Spain: 211€
• Check Republic: 395€

Travel costs from your city to Senderiz will be reimbursed after the youth exchange upon the receipt of all tickets/boarding passes.

🗓️ Dates: Arrival on 05th and departure on March 13th of 2026

⏲️ Deadline for application: January 15th 2026

⌨️ Link to apply → Apply here

Upon selection, you’ll receive an extensive info-pack with practical information: what to bring, how to organize travel (tickets must be purchased after the organizer’s confirmation) and share rides with other participants, small tasks to prepare before coming to Sende, etc.

Facilitators: María Fernanda Andrade and Ana Belen Barros