The project’s primary goal was building partner organizations’ capacities for working with youth struggling from forced migration and involving them into local communities. Although we came up with the project’s idea almost 4 years ago, throughout the project’s lifetime, its topic has been still sharp and crucial. In feeling the project’s topicality for future years, despite COVID restrictions and fatal obstacles the project team faced, we worked hard in order to satisfy a youth need of better social adaptation while being migrants. We did it by introducing a new methodology allowing mixed non-formal and formal education into our partner organizations’ every day work. The tools for migrant youth involvement we were equipped with as we started the project were lacking a cross-sector methodology for NGOs-universities networks. Partner NGOs and academic bodies were not guided on ways of putting mutual efforts into adaptation of young migrants from the perspective of social communication and career pathway. Thus, in following our planned activities and taking decisions about their changes under the pressure of the pandemic, we managed to shape a strong network of youth organizations (NGOs + university) for involving migrant youth across Europe and countries of Eastern partnership. We strongly believe that after the project, the established network of organizations and activists provide necessary assistance and keep young migrants safe from the risk of radicalization and wrong life choices. This belief rests on the project’s direct fit with the objectives of participating organizations. In embracing now about 3,000 young migrants, the university partner seeked to mix formal education methods with non-formal tools provided by NGOs. The project gathered experienced representatives with various professional backgrounds working for NGOs and the university who launched intercultural dialogue, created migrant-focused sustainable youth networks and developed relevant methodology underpinned by a mix of non-formal and formal education tools. All this enhanced their personal and organizational capacities for better involvement of migrant youth into local communities. It is worth mentioning here that the project participants have made a true difference for themselves due to intercultural communication between young migrants and social activists.The most important outcome of the project maybe identified as shaping new friendly and tolerant environment for young migrants to be involved into local communities by helping some of them to avoid fears and believe in positive future in new society, training local youth activists to continue changing environment for better migrants’ adaptation and shaping a network ready to operate effectively. This main outcome could be produced by all the project participants due to the fact that we obeyed principles of innovative project methodology introduced as a pillar of all activities. Giving hope and support to hundreds of young migrants as a result of successful stories about new life shared by youngsters via the inspirational portal is also one of the main project outcomes. Unusual youth contributions across countries in “YOUth-to-YOUth” communication manner evoked faith and optimism about young migrants’ social activity, finding friends and following good career paths in other countries.Finally the project taught us to act under complete uncertainty and irresistible force. 3 years of projects instead of planned 2 because of the COVID pressure brought positive results. We learnt how to make fast changes with minimum losses and be resilient to challenges.

The main inspiration for this project is to answer the inadequacy of many youth workers in the use of advanced skills inspired by participatory artistic methods in order to promote positive aggregation and personal self-esteem.
The results of our research have shown that this inadequacy represents a limitation, in particular among those who work in contexts characterized by a high risk of youth social marginalization or from multi-ethnic and multi-cultural contexts, that need innovative techniques and tools to create and maintain participation.We have developed a model of good-practices sharing concerning aggregation and inclusion, through a methodology that includes non-formal education activities in the field of art, the use of Erasmus + and youth mobility, and in particular projects and facilitation methods designed for young people with fewer geographical, economic and social opportunities. The project structure combines closely related activities, including training meetings and exchange of good practices, international mobility, youth exchanges and local activities.Through this experience, the goal of this project is to improve and strengthen the skills of the organizations involved, their staff members and youth workers. In fact, they will develop their work competences and attitudes aimed at social inclusion and cultural integration throughout all the phases of the project; and in particular: 1. the project will strengthen and qualify youth workers by providing them with knowledge of international experimentation, practices and non-formal education methodologies, including artistic activities and methods of participatory art, intercultural and intergenerational skills and sensitivity with particular attention to adolescents and young people. 2. young people involved in youth exchanges and local activities, including young people with fewer opportunities, will have the chance to reflect on their talents and passions, with the aim of raising awareness and active participation in the opportunities offered by society.Through the cycle of activities, the project aims to build and improve the skills of the partner organization on different levels: - working at a higher level of quality and in-depth analysis, developing skills that concern topical issues and pivotal problems in order to reach new target groups in their community; - knowing how to organise and implement programmes, youth exchanges, activities of aggregation;- integrating new practices aimed at social inclusion and higher intercultural tendencies in their activities; - knowing how to collaborate in an intercontinental project with different partners; The overall result will be a higher quality and professionalism of all the subjects involved in the work they carry out at a local and international level, providing greater awareness and skills inspired by modernity and successful educational practices.