"<< Background >>Voluntary work is a way to reinforce ones activity, personal development, inclusion and participation in society. Youngsters and young adults with mental health problems or other difficulties and reasons to exclusion, need more guidance and support to enable their volunteering process as well as their capacity building. Through volunteering also influencing the society is possible. It gives an individual the possibility to concretely act for the environment and to get a feeling of self-capability and self-efficacy. Therefore the threshold to participation should be as low as possible, despite of mental and other social barriers of the stakeholders, and also when the volunteering takes place in an other European country. International inclusive volunteering management for youth with mental health problems needs structures and networks so that the participating is safe and the approach of youth workers takes root to be mental sensitive. To reach the best and current research results as the base for building the training, methodology and handbook, the project partners have decided to make desk and field research as basis to all other project results to survey the existing circumstances of youth supported volunteering in Europe.<< Objectives >>It is often seen, that people with mental health problems are not financially productive members of society, and therefore not the first target group receiving the resources for developing themselves, even if they are young with all life ahead of themselves. Still the potential within these young people is huge, it just needs to be channeled with support from professionals. One of the best ways of motivating people is not to force them to act, but to give possibilities of participation, self-expression and activity. When the motivation comes from individuals themselves it will also lead far and last long. That is what volunteering is about. It is a two-way process where both the volunteer and the target of volunteering gain in dialogue, build their capacity and use their inner potential.Supported and inclusive volunteering is like a bridge from social exclusion to more demanding working, and the participation in meaningful voluntary work increases the feeling of being a member of community. Due to the experience with Sosped's culture house model, in which young people with mental health problems are trained to be voluntary peer supporters and lead peer groups to other youngsters, we have concretely noticed the unused potential of young people who are excluded from society out of different reasons. Development and innovating of volunteering is also an essential part of Pista Magica's and Stando's procedure. In this cooperation the partner MaMa as a roof-organization for Slovenian youth centers provides the possibility to test the results with youth workers. The results are also tested in all national multiplier events of Volunteer and Go!In the future society the concept of volunteering should not be seen as social obligation but as an opportunity to influence. Acting as voluntary worker changes one's position from being a target of help to an active operator in life. That change of thinking is very essential when recovering from mental problems. The positive impacts of the volunteering activity lead to improvement of self esteem and activity in other sectors of life as well. The transnational project partners Sosped, Stando, Pista Magica and MaMa share the same core values and the desire in developing inclusive volunteering and participation possibilities for marginalized youth and other target groups.<< Implementation >>In Volunteer and go! the partner organizations make desk and field research and develop methodology and guidelines as well as a mental sensitive handbook to enhance young adults possibilities to volunteer in EU area. Sosped coordinates Vol'Go! and promotes and reviews the project, focusing on its project management and on adaptability in changing situations, and constant, regular feedback. The project activities to gain the expected impacts are: (1a) A kick off online meeting will be organized at the beginning of the project. The meeting will bring all key project partners together in order to share information and to launch project planning. During this first online meeting partners deal the suitable cycle for meeting structure for the whole project period. Project status meetings will be carried out throughout the project by using online conference calls with project partners to report and follow on the status of the project. The meeting minutes will be recorded and openly shared with all project partners by the coordinator. (1b) First TPM will content concrete kick-off action plan steps and review and benchmark planned project objectives and team building exercises. (2) Project team meetings as well Steering Committee will take place throughout the project to review and update listed action items as well as to add additional items when needed. (3) Action Item list will be used to support tracking outstanding actions needing to be completed within the project. (4) Checklists, as to organizing the events, gives additional support to the Action Item list and therefore the project partners. (5) The meeting minutes of the professionals will be recorded and openly-shared at project status meetings, learning events and transnational project meetings. The young peer usually want to share their experiences in confidence, so we don't record the Finnish LTT but the results will be collected in a memo.(6) To support monitoring and controlling the progress of the project, online communication tools will be used for the project team meetings and scheduled project status meetings. That will help to enhance information and knowledge sharing as well as to promote communication between all project partners efficiently and helps to set direction in order to achieve the projects objectives. Also, it will help facilitate conditions for easy invoice and staff management. Providing a channel for everyone's ideas and opinions will help to get problems and potential problems out in the open, thus make problem solving easier. It allows the coordinator to respond quickly and efficiently to change, enabling to undertake the appropriate action to prevent or minimize the damage it might cause. (7) Three transnational project meetings (TPM) will be held during the project in different partner countries. The first is for preparing, planning, organizing and halfway control of developmental processes of the Project Results. In the second meeting project partners will evaluate the project outcomes and identify and develop a plan of action for further cooperation and development of the method. This second meeting will also begin the combining of the previous Project Results into final one. The Last TPM will be held in the end of the project for end evaluation and closing purposes. (8) Peer working will be the main model used during the transnational meetings e.g. interactive group activities, discussion groups and workshops. This approach is mutually beneficial and involves the sharing of knowledge and good practices, thus supporting the project objectives. Then evaluations according the following: (a) Observations from fieldwork at project results and conference as to a description of activities and the overall effect (b) Feedback of participants’ feelings, knowledge, opinions, experiences, testing the training(c) Statistical data on the number of participants attending the transnational meetings and conference(d) Other possible evaluations<< Results >>The Vol'Go! will have four Project Results that are research (PR1), methodology and guide for inclusive volunteering (PR2), and a mental sensitive handbook ""How to Volunteer and Go!"" (PR3). In PR4 these are combined to a larger visualized and translated (in Finnish, Slovene, Greek and Portuguese) material combination for dissemination that contains the report of the desk and field research, methodology, guide for youth inclusive volunteering, a mental sensitive handbook for users and training materials that are piloted and tested in all multiplier events (4) during the project. The LTT's build the capacity of all participants. The project will have its own website, administrated by the project coordinator. The guide and handbook will be printed and all the materials are shared on the website to offer familiarization and ensure sustainability and free download possibility of the outcomes for everyone also in the future."