BACKSLASH works with young people and the people and institutions around them to remove barriers, create better ways to learn and participate, connect local realities with wider opportunities, and turn evidence into better practice.
Figures from the BACKSLASH Annual Activities Report 2025.
Our work is organised around four connected strategic areas: widening access, improving how learning and participation happen, building collaboration across territories and sectors, and using evidence to understand what works and improve what comes next.
Removing barriers so every young person can take part
We work to ensure that learning and participation opportunities are accessible to young people with different realities, backgrounds and needs, particularly those who face the greatest barriers to taking part.
Methodologies built by young people, for young people.
We design, test and improve participatory non-formal education methodologies that strengthen young people's competences and help professionals, organisations and public authorities improve their practice.
Connecting people, organisations and opportunities
We build collaboration across local, national, European and international contexts, creating partnerships that expand opportunities, strengthen youth work and connect learning across sectors and territories.
Learning from evidence, improving through practice
We evaluate what changes, validate what we develop and use evidence to improve our work, demonstrate its value and help others build on what has been learned.
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ImmuniFact
ImmuniFact trains youth professionals to counter social polarisation and digital disinformation by combining prebunking and debunking techniques with a digital media literacy self-assessment compass. Having completed initial research…
2026–2027
View the project ImmuniFact: building immunity through critical thinking and fact-checking
Erasmus+ · Active
Nature VR
Nature VR is a project that combines virtual reality, environmental education and youth wellbeing to strengthen ecological awareness and support young people’s mental health.
2026–2028 · Mental and emotional wellbeing
View the project Nature VR: Virtual pathways to youth well-being and environmental stewardship
Erasmus+ · Active
Beyond Borders
The European project Beyond Borders seeks to recognise interculturality as a central pillar of higher education, fostering inclusion and diversity in universities in Poland, Spain, Greece and Germany.…
2025–2027 · Educational innovation and transfer of non-formal education
We work with organisations, educational institutions and public authorities that want to create stronger opportunities for young people. We can coordinate or join projects, design and write proposals, run training for professionals, facilitate youth participation processes, develop and test methodologies, and evaluate what actually changed. If any of this could support your work and you think there is a good fit, let’s talk!