OUR<\/span>\u00a0PROGRAMME<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\r\nAs you are probably aware, we run a pretty full programme of courses designed to strategically and responsively empower social movements. We aim to help facilitate a space for deep thinking, mutual support, and honouring diversity, to foster solidarity and deep personal resourcing, as well as offering innovative tools and approaches. We build strategic partnerships with organisations working in all sorts of areas of social change (more on that below). Then, through processes of ongoing review and development around what partners in different corners of Europe need from a training space like ours, we try to design our programmes in a way that responds to these needs.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n
In 2024 that looked like: Running a bunch of trainings tailored to the Central and Eastern European context, trainings like\u00a0Rethinking CEE Legacy<\/i> or <\/a>Holistic Security & Protection for CEE<\/a><\/i>.\u00a0<\/i>We ran a number of versions of our signature trainings \u2013 three\u00a0Transformative Collaboration<\/i><\/a>\u00a0courses, and five\u00a0Regenerative Activism: Sustainable Organising<\/i><\/a>\u00a0courses including one for\u00a0LGBTQ+ activists<\/a>\u00a0and one for\u00a0BIPOC organisers<\/a>. We ran courses on\u00a0Strategy<\/a>, on\u00a0Leaderfulness<\/a>, on\u00a0Framing and Narrative<\/a>, on\u00a0Transformative Organising<\/a>. We ran training in\u00a0Radical Nature Connection<\/a>,\u00a0Transforming Conflict<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Imagining Real Utopias<\/a>. We ran some\u00a0Active Solidarity<\/a>\u00a0courses, some\u00a0Ecology of Social Movements<\/a>\u00a0courses and a couple of\u00a0Integral Activist Training for Trainer<\/a>\u00a0courses, plus a Trainers Gathering. Some courses took place in Hungary, some in Catalunya and some of the bespoke courses for partners were run \u2018on location\u2019.\u00a0![\"\"](\"https:\/\/ulexproject.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/new-2.png\")
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We worked with around 500 learners as part of our core programme, and with attendance from more than 50 countries. This amounts to something like 4480 hours of course day participations and\u00a026,880 learning hours delivered. On top of this, and coming out of other aspects of our project work, we trained or facilitated learning spaces for around 400 people in person or online.![\"\"](\"https:\/\/ulexproject.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/new-5-1.png\")
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We have seen the development of two new strands of programme work this last year, the CEE programme mentioned above, and the Argelaga development. A little more on those\u2026<\/p>\r\n
\u00a0<\/h2>\r\nCentral and Eastern European Programme<\/span><\/h2>\r\nThe establishment of this project has been a major strategic development in the last year, growing out of our commitment to address context specific needs. Since the initial CEE tour we undertook, establishing relationships and network connections with key actors, we\u2019ve had this regional focus in view. In 2024 we made a good start setting up and running the pilot year \u2013 6 trainings and around 80 participants \u2013 generating real enthusiasm and commitment from the emerging CEE trainer pool. Sofia, one of our Hungary based project coordinators has reflected\u2013<\/p>\r\n
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\r\n\u201cThis programme has made it clearer to me how different the learning needs are in the region, partly I think, due to a poor and very formal or narrow basic education we received, and because of the socially inherited attitude toward solidarity, in terms of being the first generation after the fall of the Soviet Union. Previously, I was always thinking that things are just going extremely bad in Hungary because of its bad luck, or I blamed the overall characteristics of people. Since we are getting deeper and deeper in understanding the specific, complex economical, political, and geographical situation that impacts Eastern Europe, I am finding I have more trust and optimism towards ourselves.\u201d<\/pre>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n <\/p>\r\n
The team have been working on the adaptation of core pedagogy and content to the CEE context and have made some good headway with this. We\u2019ll continue to work on this in the coming year with an ongoing action-reflection approach, moving toward the project becoming independent of Ulex as soon as that\u2019s viable.<\/p>\r\n
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We worked with around 500 learners as part of our core programme, and with attendance from more than 50 countries. This amounts to something like 4480 hours of course day participations and\u00a026,880 learning hours delivered. On top of this, and coming out of other aspects of our project work, we trained or facilitated learning spaces for around 400 people in person or online. \r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<\/p>\r\n We have seen the development of two new strands of programme work this last year, the CEE programme mentioned above, and the Argelaga development. A little more on those\u2026<\/p>\r\n The establishment of this project has been a major strategic development in the last year, growing out of our commitment to address context specific needs. Since the initial CEE tour we undertook, establishing relationships and network connections with key actors, we\u2019ve had this regional focus in view. In 2024 we made a good start setting up and running the pilot year \u2013 6 trainings and around 80 participants \u2013 generating real enthusiasm and commitment from the emerging CEE trainer pool. Sofia, one of our Hungary based project coordinators has reflected\u2013<\/p>\r\n <\/p>\r\n <\/p>\r\n The team have been working on the adaptation of core pedagogy and content to the CEE context and have made some good headway with this. We\u2019ll continue to work on this in the coming year with an ongoing action-reflection approach, moving toward the project becoming independent of Ulex as soon as that\u2019s viable.<\/p>\r\n \r\n\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/a><\/p>\r\n\u00a0<\/h2>\r\n
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\u201cThis programme has made it clearer to me how different the learning needs are in the region, partly I think, due to a poor and very formal or narrow basic education we received, and because of the socially inherited attitude toward solidarity, in terms of being the first generation after the fall of the Soviet Union. Previously, I was always thinking that things are just going extremely bad in Hungary because of its bad luck, or I blamed the overall characteristics of people. Since we are getting deeper and deeper in understanding the specific, complex economical, political, and geographical situation that impacts Eastern Europe, I am finding I have more trust and optimism towards ourselves.\u201d<\/pre>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n