What we're for
Sapere Aude Bulgaria is a small, youth-run non-profit based in Sofia. We build non-formal education around the questions Bulgarian classrooms rarely ask out loud: who benefits when a crowd stops thinking, what a purchase actually costs, and how a democracy is quietly lost. Populism, consumerism and media manipulation aren't abstractions to us — they're the units of our workshops.
We work mainly through Erasmus+ youth exchanges, sending and hosting small Bulgarian delegations across Europe for weeks of discussion-based, non-formal learning alongside partner organisations. Between exchanges we run local workshops and publish what we learn, in Bulgarian and beyond.
Our story
First informal reading group on media literacy, Sofia.
Registered as an NGO; first hosted youth exchange delegation.
Running multiple exchanges a year across Croatia, Spain and Italy.
The four quarters of the crest
Key and fist
Key — knowledge
The unlocking half of the motto — research, workshops, reading circles.
Fist — courage
The doing half — speaking up, organising, showing up uninvited.
Fist — action
Youth exchanges, campaigns, and the exchanges' after-effects at home.
Key — access
Free, low-barrier education, funded so no participant pays to learn.
How we work
Three standing programmes
SA-01 Youth exchanges
Erasmus+ funded exchanges, one to two weeks, hosted with partner NGOs across Europe. Bulgarian participants join in full — no cost to them, EU co-funded travel and stay.
SA-02 Non-formal workshops
Discussion-led sessions in Sofia on populism, consumer culture and media literacy — built for teenagers and young adults, not lecture halls.
SA-03 Publications & toolkits
What each exchange produces gets written up and shared back — toolkits, zines and short reports other youth workers can reuse.
The people
The team
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