Detox your Project – All Gender Lab to unlearn masculinities and challenge patriarchy: Call for Partner Organizations and Participants by 04 November 2025!

📅09–15 February 2026 |📍Würzburg, Northern Bavaria (Germany) | Erasmus +

What is this about?

Our German Branch SCI-Germany is organising an international seminar on the topic of critical masculinities and patriarchy. The seminar is a laboratory that aims to create a space for critical engagement with hegemonic masculinities and their impact on social dynamics and their power structures. We want to challenge patriarchy by looking at it from the perspective of (critical) masculinities. We will focus on masculinities within educational projects, activist groups or volunteering camps. Questions we’ll discuss:

• How can a collaborative effort look like to unlearn dominant images and behaviours of masculinity?
• How does masculinity and patriarchy influence our societal structures, individual behaviours and group dynamics?
• How can we challenge patriarchal systems of oppression in our own projects?
• How does patriarchy and images of masculinities influence men, women, INTA-Persons and queerness (differently)? | INTA= Intersex, non-binary, trans- & agender persons

Requirements

The seminar is open to people of all gender identities (intersex, non-binary, trans, agender, cis, queer).
Main requirements:

• age 18+;
• reside in an eligible Country: EU, the Balkans, the Caucasus, Norway, Iceland, Ukraine, Moldova, Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Palestine and Tunisia;
• interest in gender, patriarchy and masculinity issues;
• availability for the entire duration of the project;
• for participants from Europe: being motivated to travel ecofriendly without taking a plane.

Financial conditions

Detox your Project is an international Erasmus+ seminar funded by the German Erasmus+ National Agency for Youth as part of an accreditation project in the field of youth (2021-2027). Thanks to Erasmus+ funding, board, lodging, travel and activities are covered. The diet will be plant-based and the group will share daily care tasks. The seminar will be held in English, with a preparatory online workshop in January 2026.

Read the full call: Detox your Project 2026_Call for Participants

How to apply

🌐 Information: https://www.sci-d.de/detox
👉 Become a partner organisation: https://t1p.de/detox-partner
👉 Apply as participant by 04 November 2025: https://t1p.de/detox-apply

For more information: sima.jakob@sci-d.de