"The motivation leading to the development of SparkSEEDs proposal results from previous contacts and work groups established among the organisations involved (schools, municipality, youth organisations, public-private network and public bodies) where it became clear the urgent need to change and to entail innovation in the educational process, being intended the update from current educational model to a more modern, capable of preparing youth for the present and for the future, empowering them to overcome the most pressing challenges of society, and being this innovation supported and amplified by National and European recommendations and policy trends. SparkSEEDs project aimed to build and develop a community based non-formal educational ecosystem with the aim to promote and support the regular offer of extra-school high quality and enriching activities, dedicated to and participated by youth, by capitalising important endogenous resources (human, intergenerational, cultural, natural, material, traditional, among other) in a crossed approach between youth main interests & needs and the most actual societal challenges. Powered by a network of public and private entities and civil society representatives, established beyond project partnership, a concrete “learning community” (SparkCOMMUNITY) was then created, competent for embracing a proposal for social transformation, and qualified for supporting the acquisition by youth of critical skills linked to the school, but going beyond its limits, thus involving the entire community in the formation of their individuals. Under the “umbrella” of the SparkCOMMUNITY a set of results, subsidiary & complementary, were achieved and contributed jointly, among other, for project global aims: > SparkYWorkers: A Capacity Building Programme (Trainings and Job Shadowing) for Youth Workers (facilitators, volunteers and NEETs) from the community & from its organisations, aiming to purposefully increase and adjust youth work skills and quality, thus giving capacity to assist regular & consistent non-formal learnings & activities for youth, and also to transfer societal fundamental values to young people, thus preventing the main phenomena actually affecting young people (school absence & unsuccess, bullying & any kind of violence, non-healthy behaviours, lack of participation & initiative, etc.); > SparkCLUBs: constituting the practical activities addressed to youth, the SparkCLUBs provided high-quality extra-school and free time activities for the integrated learnings of young people. The activities include as well the development of a SparkCAMP, a comprehensive Summer-Camp (programme of enriching activities for occupation of free time during school vacation times), facilitating an additional important result: safe & quality alternative/solution for families and educators for the ""positive"" occupation of the free time of their youngsters; > SparkSEEDing: A Dissemination Pack (as dissemination is one of the main pillars of the project), was developed in straight alignement with national, European and global trends on education. Besides, due to the pilot nature of the project and being project’s rationale strongly representative of the needs of many other educational ecosystems and communities all over Europe, a solid dissemination dimension was then fully justified by its usefulness and pertinence. SparkSEEDs partners enthusiastically believe that project proposal has the power to change positively the educational systems and issues addressed. This motivating idea was the compelling force behind all of SparkSEEDs products and results. With this in mind, and with the intention of supporting communities, its organisations and youth workers in their process of sparking the education of Youth, project should become a free and global interdisciplinary community based educational model, accessible for all. Along 24 months, a partnership composed by public and private institutions from Portugal, Italy and Poland, were responsible to address project objectives through the implementation of a sequent and interconnected plan of activities (SparkCOMMUNITY, SparkLABs, SparkCLUBs, SparkYWorkers Capacity Building Programme – 2 transnational trainings, 3 Job Shadowing actions, 5 Transnational Meetings, a set of Multiplier events, among other) could involve and benefit directly more than 400 youngsters (>180 with less opportunities) and more than 300 youth workers and educational staff. Indirect beneficiaries, namely through dissemination phase, communication measures and web based tools, a much larger number was achieved."