Over sixteen months, Stepping Beyond Tents set out a simple promise: listen carefully to refugee youth and to the professionals who stand beside them, turn what we hear into a clear, usable guideline, and test it in real settings. Led by CIFIR (France) with Backslash...

A practitioner-ready playbook built from listening, testing and co-creation — now available in English, Turkish, French and Spanish.

14 June — Arrival & orientation Participants checked in, met the facilitation team, and set up a shared workspace for the week. The evening orientation covered the seminar goals, the five pillars of the guideline, and how daily feedback would work. A quick...

Applying the Five Pillars in Grassroots Refugee Youth Programmes

What’s inside The guideline condenses the project’s research into five pillars that organisations can apply immediately: language access, mental-health support, legal and administrative pathways, fair access to learning and work, and local coordination to reduce...

We report the main insights gathered in the refugee focus group held online, complemented by the project’s planned research framework. The evidence will feed into the five-point guideline and the practical mini-kit for organisations.

We are launching the project’s field-listening phase: two online focus groups (one with refugees, one with professionals who work with refugees) plus two short surveys and a literature scan. The goal is to collect solid, comparable evidence that will feed a five-point guideline for safer, more inclusive youth policies.

What we’re doing now The partners — CIFIR (coordination), Backslash (drafting lead) and Old School Green, Antalya (practice transfer) — are moving from evidence to structure. Using the inputs gathered so far, we’re outlining the five pillars, drafting checklists and...

A 16-month Erasmus+ partnership turns research into a practical, five-point guideline for safer, more inclusive youth policies — with France, Spain, and Turkey working shoulder to shoulder.