Partner project
April 2027
Consumerism. Decisions Outsourced.
Lamezia Terme, Italy
A youth exchange on how shopping habits are shaped for us long before we walk into a store. Bulgarian delegates join through this…
NGO · Sofia, Bulgaria · Non-formal education
Sapere Aude.
Have the courage to use your own understanding — Kant's old dare, made into a youth programme.
Дръзни да знаеш — Sapere aude · dare to know
Critical thinking
Civic courage
Non-formal education
Current & recent
Open calls for participants
No open calls right now. The next one is in preparation — check back soon, or follow us on social media.
What we're for
Founded and run by young people
"Sapere aude" — dare to know. We borrowed the Enlightenment's oldest instruction and gave it to Bulgarian youth.
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.
The four quarters of the crest
TO KNOW
Key — knowledge
The unlocking half of the motto — research, workshops, reading circles.
DARE TO
Fist — courage
The doing half — speaking up, organising, showing up uninvited.
ACTION
Fist — action
Youth exchanges, campaigns, and the exchanges' after-effects at home.
ACCESS
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.
In our network
Projects we join
Get involved
Дръзни да знаеш
Looking for a Bulgarian partner for an Erasmus+ project, want to apply, or just want to talk? Write to us.