We believe that each new young generation holds the key to co-create a better world. With fresh innovative ideas, perspectives and an tremendous need for (online) connection, the current generation of young people are extremely promising to be leaders of change. With the project Change! Leaders for active participation laboratory (CLAP lab!) we aim to improve the capability of these young people to make a change in society through a youth leadership development programme. CLAP lab! is an international multi-measure project dedicated to train the young people of our organizations to develop their leadership skills and create change in society. Youth leadership benefits both the youngsters itself and the society as a whole. Using a combination of training, exchanges and evaluation we constructed an experiential & cross cultural leadership programme that integrates the different needs & objectives of all partner organizations. We will be welcoming in total 8 partners from Lithuania, Finland, Ireland, The Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Italy & Romania. The aims of CLAP lab! are: • To stimulate young people to make a change in society • To stimulate young people to guide or direct others in a course of action, influence their opinion and behavior and show the way by going in advance • To offer young people the experience, understanding and practice of different kinds of leadership during training and exchanges. • To build up a leadership attitude among our youngsters that stimulates the bottom-up decision-making process instead of top down