<< Background >>This project proposal starts from an essential need: the reduced capacity of the consortium to work transnationally and, especially, in a cross-sectoral approach to address youth with migrant background drop-out. Schools are often left to their fate and must deal with the problem of migrant youth dropping-out most of the times on their own. Youth organizations, chambers of commerce, associations of young people of foreign origin as well as training centers go their own way as well. They only become aware of the problem when it affects them directly.Many studies and research conducted over the past years have largely demonstrated how students who belong to disadvantaged groups, and among these those who come from a migrant background, have a higher risk of dropping out of school than natives. The Covid pandemic19 has already shown how this risk has further increased. The issue of early school leaving and that of social inclusion are a key points of the new Erasmus + programming. For a number of years now, we have advocated on the importance to take a holistic approach to the issue of education and to conceive education as a task entrusted to a broader community: that is why we applied to this project.<< Objectives >>The general objective of this proposal is to contribute in trigger modernization and to reinforce the response of education and training systems and youth policies to the main challenges provided by the migrant youth school drop-out and social exclusion, by building the capacity of the consortium to work transnationally and with a cross-sector approach. By implementing this project we want to achieve: 1. an opened synergies and reinforced cooperation with local organizations/partners active in different fields than education, training and youth or in other socio-economic sectors (strengthening collaboration among all actors within schools, as well as with families and other external stakeholders); 2. an increased allocation of financial resources (other than EU funds) to organize EU/international projects in the field of education, training and youth; 3. an increased quality in the preparation, implementation, monitoring and follow-up of EU/international projects and increased capacity and professionalism to work at EU/international level: improved management competences and internationalization strategies.<< Implementation >>YOUCAN project plans several activities.3 transnational meetings will provide the places and the time to monitor the activities carried out. There will also be 6 Organization to Organization (O2O) tailored trainings during which a participant will take part in a week of training at another organization that is part of the consortium with the aim of reinforcing the cooperation with local organizations/partner, increasing allocation of financial resources (other than EU funds) to organize EU/international projects in the field of education, training and youth and increasing quality in the preparation, implementation, monitoring and follow-up of EU/international projects and increased capacity and professionalism to work at EU/international level. 2 project results will be produced: YOUCAN best practices publication: will identify best practices coming from projects that have focused on the importance of cross-sectoral cooperation to address youth with migrant dropout from school.YOUCAN toolkit publication: the toolkit will have a very practical objective: training members of the participating organizations in increasing the quality in the preparation, implementation, monitoring and follow-up of EU/international projects and increased capacity and professionalism to work at EU/international level by better knowing the project cycle management. There will also be 1 learning, teaching, training during which participants will be trained to using the YOUCAN toolkit. There will be also 6 local multiplier events and 1 final multiplier event during which the project activities and results will be disseminate.<< Results >>Once the project is concluded, the partnership will have some increased competencies in working across borders and across sectors. Not only that. The organization of a O2O training, a kind of job shadowing, that will be carried out by a participant at another organization will allow to have direct and specific experience of the skills of the members of the host organization. In addition, at the end of the project and still in general terms, it will be possible to observe an increased synergy and cooperation among the organizations that are part of the consortium, which will allow to have increased the allocation of financial resources from sources other than the Eu funding. The last aspect to be considered that will remain once the project is concluded an increased skill in the preparation, implementation, monitoring and follow-up of EU/international projects. Besides, during the project several results will be acquired. To begin with, 6 types of training reports resulting from training that a partnership member will have done at another organization. At the end of the project, instead, the following results will be acquired. - 1 Memorandum of Understanding and cooperation among the consortium signed by each organization participating to the consortium; - 3 projects participation coming from 3 calls for proposals to other than Eu funds; - 1 best practice publication: of about 50/80 pages in the languages of the countries participating in the project (French, Spanish, Italian, Greek and Portuguese) to which English will be added; - 1 toolkit publication: of about 30/50 pages in the languages of the countries participating in the project (French, Spanish, Italian, Greek and Portuguese) to which, again, English will be added.