Secure Your Future  

Why was this project important?

Young people increasingly face information overload, pressures about the future, stress, online threats, and the difficulty of making informed decisions. Secure Your Future addressed these challenges by creating a safe and supportive space for developing self-awareness, self-confidence, social competences, and skills useful in everyday life.

The project also demonstrated that caring for the future is much more than career planning. It also involves caring for one’s mental health, relationships with others, the environment, safety, and making decisions consistent with one’s needs and values.

The program included workshops, team activities, intercultural activities, and an educational trip to Warsaw. Participants developed skills in collaboration, problem-solving, critical thinking, building healthy relationships, and consciously planning their own career path.

International cooperation was also a key element of the project. The collaborative work of young people from Poland, Portugal, and Romania allowed participants to explore diverse perspectives, overcome language and cultural barriers, and strengthen a sense of European solidarity and belonging. Secure Your Future was more than just an educational project. It was a space for learning about oneself and others, gaining practical knowledge, establishing new relationships, and discovering that young people have a real impact on what their future will look like.

Participants completed their mobility with new experiences, competencies, greater self-awareness, and—we hope—greater confidence that the future isn’t something to simply wait for. It can be consciously created.