The journey from Chiusi della Verna to Assisi did not end on the trail. The Pilgrimage to Sustainability continued through Youth Walker, a publication bringing participants’ reflections and experiences into written form.
Some learning experiences end when participants return home. Others continue to develop long after the programme itself has finished.
The Pilgrimage to Sustainability: Youth Worker Training along the Way of St. Francis was one of those experiences.
The Erasmus+ training took place in Italy from 2 to 14 September 2025, following the route from Chiusi della Verna to Assisi. Coordinated by Associazione Libero Pensatore APS, the programme brought youth workers together for an intensive learning journey in which walking, sustainability, reflection and shared experience became part of the educational process.
MONOMIT participated as a project partner, represented by Ivona Radić, Mira Vujanić, Tijana Ivanović and Mihailo Stefanović.
The physical journey was central to the methodology. Moving through the landscape created a different rhythm for learning — one that allowed time for conversation, observation, personal reflection and encounters with places along the route.
But the experience did not remain only in participants’ memories.
It later continued in Youth Walker, a publication that brings together reflections connected with the project and the experience of learning through walking.
Ivona Radić, who participated in the mobility through MONOMIT, contributed an article to the publication.
For us, this continuation is particularly meaningful. It shows how an international mobility can move beyond the event itself: experience becomes reflection, reflection becomes written knowledge, and that knowledge can then be shared with people who were not present on the original journey.
Youth Walker is not a MONOMIT publication. It grew from The Pilgrimage to Sustainability and is available through the official project/publisher channel.
What connects it to MONOMIT is the contribution of one of our participants and the wider idea that learning should not disappear when a project ends. Experiences can be documented, interpreted and transferred — becoming part of a wider conversation.