"Political and wider social participation of young people is important as it shows the ""health"" and functioning of democracy, and has a positive impact of development of the identity of the young person (Levine, 2010: 160). Youth participation is also important because political and civil society functioning in adolescence predicts an individual's behaviour in adulthood (Obradović and Masten, 2007; Plutzer, 2002). The youth are getting more and more inactive, although different organizations are providing possibilities to encourage active participation, the problem still remains. It turns out that the big issue that all participating countries need to tackle is youth inactivity. Main mission of all participating organizations is to encourage youth participation, that young people realize, that they are in charge of developing and establishing the society they want to live in. Project 4Youth aims to develop skills, knowledge and competences of youth workers to increase their productivity and effectiveness, to encourage youth participation and to develop activities to strengthen soft skills of youth. By the end of this project we will be able to develop permanent methodology to improve the existing programs and serve as policy directives for up-coming youths or the generations to come. Within the project, we will train youth workers and give them new tools, approaches and will develop environment for fostering youth participation. We will establish intercultural cooperation among partners, networks and will conduct research of the situation in each country aiming to share best practices and to combine effective approaches into new methodology."