'Breaking barriers'- effective work with at risk groups' is a co-project of two Estonian organisations - East Prefecture and Sillamäe Youth Centre of Interest "Beehive" and six partner organisations from Malta, UK, Spain, Lithuania, Italy and Bulgaria. The Main Activity of the project is an 8 -day seminar „Breaking barriers“ to be held from 08. - 15. 09.2014 in Sillamäe, mostly in the Sillamäe Youth Centre of Interest "Beehive", but there are also other venues for some activities of the project: Pannjärve adventure park, Rakvere Police Museum, Sillamäe city centre. The variety of indoor and outdoor activities will be used during the Main Activity: games, vertical dances on a building, street dance, group discussions, group and couple reflection, brainstorming ideas, lectures in the open air, workshops: storytelling, facial body art, creative youth music. The first 4 days of the Main Activity will be dedicated to building a team, ready to share and analyze each others experience, as well as to elaborating of a guidance booklet "Breaking barriers". During first 4 days each partner will be obliged to introduce several methods of working during the seminar. The last 4 days of the Main Activity will be dedicated to practical application of methods, analyzing of feedback and validation of results. The key event of the seminar is a city workshop festival, organized for youth workers, teachers, community workers, Juvenile Police officers and youth from Sillamäe and neighboring cities, in terms of which partners will apply practically their best practices. The main objectives of the project is to provide a space for the participants to share their expertise and experience at European level and present tools and approaches to deal with at-risk youngsters. In addition, the project aims at providing the platform for discussion between the participants, based on theoretical and practical inputs around the theme which is relevant to the work with at-risk groups. The good practices and new methods that will prove themselves to be effective will be integrated therefore into participants' daily activities. With the purpose that this practical luggage of tools and approaches would be noticed and borrowed by others, the participants of the project have also set a goal to make and to disseminate a guidance brochure, comprising description of best practices applied, adaptability and applicability of working methods used, learning outcomes, contact details of partner organisations, project blog links, etc.