<< Background >>The Lifeboat project is based on experiences of partner NGOs in terms of work with refugees and migrants. The idea of preparing KA2 Cooperation partnership came after discussion between partners and the whole context was as well discussed in the group. Before the first application, each partner organization has organized two focus groups with eight youngsters (16-24 y.o.) with a migration background at ZOOM. Those focus groups aimed to find out how they feel in a new country, the barriers they are facing, and their interest in participating in youth work activities. The results have shown that overall:1) The absolute majority of inquired youngsters (across all partner countries) do not feel completely integrated or accepted (especially, since they are often presented negatively in the media).2) Accordingly, 76% of participants feel not accepted by their local peers (32% of them do not have a chance to interact with them at all, while the remaining part feels excluded in the mixed group). In their words, local youngsters often tend to interact with other locals more (as it is probably easier for them due to a more similar cultural background). Some of the youngsters even mentioned that others seem to be afraid of their different (e.g. muslim) culture.3) When asked what kind of actions would facilitate their social integration in the new country, quality leisure activities (together with local community) & educational workshops were mentioned the most.4) Also, 80% of refugees would like to be invited to join the organizations & youth centres, but feel not too confident to simply appear at a youth centre or youth organization.With these results in mind, the exact idea of the Lifeboat project (which would contribute to a more equal intercultural and inclusive environment within the youth local communities and involve young refugees / immigrants through new innovative methodologies) came up. This version comes as the third one, after fine tuning of details, which were recommended by evaluators.<< Objectives >>The Main aim is to create innovative Project results for youth workers to improve their work with youngsters from migrant/refugee/asylum seeking background. Those youngsters as well as local youth will be actively involved during activities in order to hear their opinion and to create a methodology as well as manual, which will be based on real needs of those young people and which will be tested in real situations.Our objectives are to:1. Improve the level of social inclusion in the education system by methodology and manual created as a part of IO, where youngsters from migrant/refugee/asylum seeking background as well as local youth will cooperate.2. Strengthen capacities of youth workers, facilitators, teachers and other relevant workers in work with multicultural groups and to promote social inclusion between them.3. Create innovative educational materials for free use, which will help youth workers, facilitators and teachers to improve their understanding of creating tolerant working environment and their adaptation will lead to decreasing of non-tolerant, xenofobic or racist behaviour4. To bring a change to youth work focused on youth from refugee/migrant background on a national level in each partner country based on our Policy recommendation.<< Implementation >>There are six transnational meetings planned during the duration of the project, which is 22 months. The meetings will bring together two representatives of each NGO, which always means 12 youth workers, and will take place in every partner country. During the meetings, there will be various sessions connected, especially to the project's results, its monitoring, evaluation, and dissemination. Except for the transnational meetings, we will prepare several local activities. The first is connected to the project's results and will bring together youngsters with refugee/migrant backgrounds and majority youth. During these activities, we will observe the reactions to various non-formal methods and methods of learning. These youth meetings will be a core for project result II. Our participants as well as target groups are most importantly youth from migrant/refugee/asylum seeking background, who will be actively involved during the activities as well as local youth, who will attend the activities and work together with the first group. Important role plays as well as youth workers, who will attend to each activity as facilitators or observers. In total we expect to actively integrate around 100 participants with fewer opportunities plus tens of participants who do not belong to the category with fewer opportunities, those will be mostly youth workers/facilitators or teachers, who will take part in the project.Once project result II is prepared, we will manifest it to NGOs and institutions in each country and present them our Policy recommendation. In order to promote the Policy recommendation, we will meet NGOs and institutions as mentioned, and later on, we will deliver the document to the ministry of education in every country.<< Results >>There will be two Projects results created as a part of this Cooperation partnership. The first one is a methodology for youth workers called Lifeboat and teaching modules, which will be created together with youngsters from refugee/migrant/asylum seeking background as well as with local youth. Following result “How to facilitate inclusive sessions” (Manual) is deeply connected to the Methodology since based on the knowledge gained during the PR1 and after activities, which will test practicability of those methods, there will be Manual published, which will be then shared in language of each partner plus English and shared to relevant target groups. Last activity, which is not part of projects results is Lifeboat recommendation, which will be presented to ministry of education in each partner country. This recommendation will include our knowledge and present possibilities to improve the situation in the country. Target groups and institutions, who will accept our materials are expected to join this recommendation by their signature in order to express that this need is not based on one project, but there are more professionals, who see the need as well. To ensure proper dissemination and easy access for all needed information and to share our knowledge by audiovisual educational materials we will launch a website, which will include the developed content and provide free access to all materials created during our project.Long term benefits of our projects are not only partnership built between NGOs but as well all the materials, which will be presented online and will be free accessible even after the end of the project. We see as well potential for PR1 and PR2 to be used as a base for other projects on this topic, which will use our information and use them for their own research. The Policy Recommendation will as we believe open discussion in countries on national and local level.