Description
This international workshop invites adult learners from diverse backgrounds to explore how learning and travelling abroad can become more inclusive — and how creative thinking can spark real change. Participants discover how Design Thinking, a method used by innovators worldwide, helps turn challenges into opportunities for inclusion.
Programme Description:
Over five days, participants work together in international teams to learn and apply the Design Thinking process. They explore real barriers to mobility learning, build empathy for others’ experiences, and develop fresh ideas for making travel and learning abroad more accessible.
Through hands-on teamwork, creative exercises, and a visit to a local organisation supporting people with disabilities, learners experience how innovation begins with understanding.
Why it’s relevant for disadvantaged learners:
This course offers a supportive, international learning environment for adults who face barriers to participation. It helps learners build confidence and creative skills to spot new opportunities and contribute to innovation in their communities. By learning how to think differently, participants gain the tools to shape more inclusive learning and mobility opportunities — for themselves and others.
European Dimension
This course strengthens the European dimension by fostering collaboration between sending and hosting organisations across multiple EU countries to support the inclusion of participants with diverse backgrounds.
Tentative Program & Schedule
Tentative Programme (13–17 October 2025, Kaunas)
- Day 1: Arrival, welcome activities, and introduction to the TRAIL project.
- Day 2: Learn the basics of Design Thinking and explore barriers to inclusion; visit the Kaunas Blind Association.
- Day 3: Understand user experiences through empathy activities and define key challenges.
- Day 4: Ideate and co-create inclusive solutions in international teams.
- Day 5: Present your group’s Inclusive Journey Concept and group reflection.
Expected Outcome
By the end of the workshop, participants will:
- Learn to identify needs, generate ideas, and prototype inclusive solutions.
- Understand how Design Thinking can be used to solve social and accessibility challenges.
- Strengthen collaboration, problem-solving, and communication skills across cultures.
- Co-create an Inclusive Journey Concept — a practical idea that supports inclusive mobility and equal participation.
Certification
A certificate of completion and LEVEL5 Certificate will be given to participants who successfully complete the course.
Venue address
Kaunas Third Age University
Kaunas
Lithuania
How to Apply
We are looking for adult learners from fewer-opportunity backgrounds, including (but not limited to) individuals from lower socio-economic backgrounds, ethnic minorities, refugee or migrant communities, as well as those facing physical, mental, or employment challenges.
Interested applicants please send an email to:
- rimvydas.velykis@yahoo.com
Minimum Number Of Participants
10
Further Information on Course Fees
Kaunas Third Age University
Address
Kaunas Lithuania
Website URL
http://www.facebook.com/pg/TAUKAUNAS/
Contact persons
Rimvydas Velykis: rimvydas.velykis@yahoo.com
