The project introduces youth workers to innovative methodologies for facilitating dialog among young people; and to create a mentoring system to support the youth workers in their transformative work. The partners have common vision, interest and expertise to develop new innovative approaches to youth work and they share similar core values. The complimentary expertise of participating organisations creates a possibility for sharing and learning from each other’s practices and approaches to answer current needs of youth work in Europe. With the project we seek to develop the quality of youth work by improving the skills and competencies of youth workers to design and facilitate internal and external inclusive dialogue and mediation processes and demonstrating that meaningful participation in decision making structures and social inclusion and transformative actions of solidarity are practically possible. The project is built on a notion that youth workers play an increasingly important role in creating spaces for solidarity and maintaining peace. We see youth workers' role as being a catalyst for change amongst the youth. They can and often do empower young people to lead and take action to show solidatity on the issues that affect them and matter to them. They do this by creating opportunities for them to build their critical thinking and to explore complex societal issues in a constructive way. In core of the project is an one year long training program which aims to build capacity of 24 youth workers and create a group of practitioners and experts on partipatory and inclusive decision making, dialog facilitation and civic mediation in youth work settings. The training has several phases with a clear common denominator that connects the different parts of the training program. In core of the training programme are theories and practices of non-formal education, civic mediation and inclusive dialog facilitation. Those three approaches complement each other as in core of them is understanding of tension and conflict and the skills combine to enable the youth worker to deal withsmaller and larger group interactions. Our approach focuses on conflicts and the systems that support them and enables youth workers to understand and deal with conflicts that arise on a societal - where the tension manifests on a broader societal level rather than within a particular group.All three organisations share a common systemic understanding of transformation, they will complement each other and each component of the project will build on the previous one without undue confusion.During the project we will plan, implement and assess local interventions in order to enhance joint learning and collect cases to illustrate of how youth workers can use trasnformative practices towork through issues that are relevant to young people and prodive spaces for them to work on those in their own terms. The case studies will also highlight challenges and barriers for youth workers facilitating these processes and working with young people on complex social issues. They will include recommendation on ways to overcome these challenges. During the project a scenario-based field guide for practitioners will be co-developed. The guide can be used as support material for practitioners working dialogue and mediation in youth work settings where societal tension, resistance and conflict are present. This guide will be unique in combining together the two practice areas of facilitation of dialogue and civic mediation in the youth work context, setting out which approach is suitable for which situation. It will not replicate existing handbooks or databanks presenting a variety of methods – rather, it will focus on strategies to deal with concrete problems experienced by youth workers and will draw from the joint experience of participating organisationsas to the personal attitude (or meta-skills) required to remedy problems that arise. The guide will serve as a field guide or ”first aid kit” in the field of youth work. In digital form it will be made availableto a large cross section of youth workers. We will create a mentoring system, which will provide a sustainable platform for sharing experiences and get support from with experienced and skilledprofessionals also in the future. It will offer support to youth workers by showing them that they are not alone in their attempt to find solutions and constructive pathways to transform conflicts and workwith vulnerable and/or radicalised youth. Developing practical approaches and youth workers’ competence on transforming societies, creation of safe spaces and by involving youth in the decisionmaking in more meaningful way will have an impacts the peace and coexistence of different groups in society and especially on well-being and agency of youth belonging to any minority group. Thisalso enables youth to grow as democratic citizens and create spaces for young people to act in solidarity.