'Creative Commons' provides the National Association for Youth Drama (NAYD) and Youth Theatre Arts Scotland (YTAS) with a unique opportunity to share best practice within the youth theatre sector and to strategically build new and innovative resources in the areas of Young Critics practice and Young Leader mentorship and skill development. NAYD and YTAS will share expertise, learn from key staff and activities in their partner organisation, pool experiences and network contacts to enable the creation of: a Young Leaders Mentorship digital publication: a Leadership Skills 'Resource Suite' for Young Leaders hosted on a multi-media blog; and a multi-media web-resource exploring best practice in Young Critics Programmes. NAYD and YTAS believe that the proposed partnership activities would promote high quality youth arts work and would support the development of innovative resources reflective of digital culture.Partners have identified the following objectives for the partnership:* To exchange skills, knowledge and expertise * To increase knowledge of the youth theatre sector in each partner country and develop working relationships between staff* To work together to create new, innovative resources to support two specific areas of practice of interest in both countries: Young Leaders resources & Young Critics resources* To advance best practice in these two specific areas, improving staff expertise and knowledge as well as that of the sector in general* To build a best practice model for international partnership between youth theatre development organisations that could be promoted at a European level NAYD and YTAS will target the participation of 1,430 young people, youth theatre practitioners, artists, teachers, youth arts workers etc. to engage directly in project activities and estimate that the partnership will also benefit a further 26,000 people indirectly (30% of whom are facing situations which make their participation more difficult). Partners will apply youth drama approaches as the key methodology across the project, a practice that engages young people as active participants, by using group or ensemble approaches and encourages the development of the whole person. Project facilitators will also draw on other non-formal teaching and learning methods that respond to the needs of participants. NAYD and YTAS will carry out a series of transnational project meetings, resource development activities and participative consultations, a young critics youth exchange, multi-media resource creation activities and multiplier training events to achieve the project outcomes. As a result of the project, NAYD and YTAS envisage increased knowledge, confidence and ability within the youth theatre sector around youth leadership and mentoring activity and the creation of quality young critics projects on a regional/national level. Through their dissemination plan and multiplier events, NAYD and YTAS plan to open up their youth arts practice to cross­sectorial cooperation and spread quality young critics and young leaders practice to the formal and non-formal education sectors, the youth work, youth arts and cultural sectors and regional arts development agencies. Through their partnership, NAYD and YTAS aspire to build a larger network of organisations including European youth theatres and youth theatre development organisations with whom to exchange practice and promote the development of youth theatre.