<< Objectives >>Youth-REC responds to the European Youth Strategy: to engage, connect, and empower youth. It aims to combat low and falling rates of engagement and participation in civic society, and trust in democratic structure, while capitalising on the promise of creative methods for engaging youth. Thus, the project will develop and use innovative creative methods in storytelling, filmmaking, and graphic design to improve the skills of youth workers and engage and empower disenfranchised European youth.<< Implementation >>Youth-REC will conduct research and collect best practices to develop a project manual providing guidelines for the use of the project methods for engaging and empowering youth. Youth workers will participate in a training to use these methods effectively, and will conduct workshops at the local level in 7 European countries with disenfranchised and marginalised youth. Finally, a series of events will be held to exhibit the youth's films and launch and promote their campaigns.<< Results >>Youth-REC will develop a manual, with research, best practices, and a workshop guide for youth workers to use to engage and empower disenfranchised youth. From the workshops, youth will produce films on issues personal to them and/or their communities, and accompanying campaigns, including visual brands. These films and campaigns will be available on Youtube and the project website. Finally, events will be held locally and internationally to celebrate the project and promote the campaigns.