People living in peripheral areas along the Western Balkan generally are exposed to poverty, pollution,and social inequality. Other relevant issues include unplanned settlement, squatter settlement or popularsettlement which explains the occupation by low-income households. The challenges that are present inthe peripheral areas relate to social elements such as discrimination of women and young people,prejudice and inequalities, environmental and urban elements as lack of access to clean water, properwaste collection, housing, access to education and economic elements such lack of employmentopportunities.To address the needs the project aims to gather for a period of 24 months 6 partners from EU andWestern Balkan countries to exchange practices and address the appropriate tools. The overallgoal of the project is engaging -empowering and enabling - youth to lead sustainable actions fortransforming peripheral areas into livable areas through sharing good practices, innovative tools, andmethods. The main objectives of the project are: Empowering young professionals from participatingorganizations with appropriate tools and methods to influence the transformation of peripheral areas intolivable areas, ii) Engaging and enabling rural youth to effectively contribute to scaling up peripheral areasupgrading. iii) Disseminating the results and the methodology of the project with the purpose of making awider impact to the society through online events and virtual communication.The main results of the project are: The capacities of 24 young professionals will be raised through themobility activities, more than 20 rural youth from each organization are engaged in local activities andtheir capacities will be increased, 1 toolkit and gamification game on urban design is developed anddelivered to young professionals, more than 10000 people are reached through dissemination activities,and digital events and communication.