The scope of the proposed cooperation among 7 partners from 6 countries, is offering an empowering cooperation between NGOs and association active in the field of youth and community oriented work, with a particular referent to enhance their ability to cooperate with local actors and propose high quality services to disadvantaged youth.

The cooperation envisaged will address the needs youth disengaged and unable to connect with their community, by fostering youth workers capacity to facilitate their reconciliation process while increasing the awareness of the community and getting them ready to assist and support the young citizens in the personal development process and social inclusion.

This facilitation process would require a broader skills also in the NGOs managers along with youth operators, sustained through all stages of the programme and a more EU oriented approach to the subject, requiring competences, expertise and views from different point of view, offered indeed by the strategically formed consortium.

An innovative character of the project stems from increasing youth workers and NGOs operators communication skills and ability to network with local actors using key elements of Corporate social responsibility –CSR- such as finding ways for motivating companies in being more active at local level – such as: more efficient and sustainable ways that economical actors can adopt to “give back and have a positive impact on their communities” (which is one of the key message in CSR discourse).

The partners’ staff will also get more information on topics such participatory planning and fund raising as  powerful tools to make local community more cohesive, resilient and better prepared to include youth in their plans for the future. The partners are going to use those concepts and prepare a program that they can use to plan local activities with a stronger support by local community and offer youth more sophisticated non-formal education activities better in line with their needs.

Young people taking part in the local activities or being part of the activities organized by partners in the future, will be beneficiaries of an opportunity increasing their skills and motivation in getting involve in their local community’s affairs, thanks to:

• Facilitated access to information and better support by local community key stakeholders
• Improved public and private service providers ability to catering for young women and men;
• Creation of local networks more aware of the social, educational and economic needs of youth, better prepared to support them when they are ready to participated and have a positive discourse with the community

The products created by the partners will be free of charge and available in digital format in English and the other languages of the partnership, to share the lesson learned with other organizations and NGOs in the West Balkans and in all EU countries too.