The project’s overall objective is to promote active youth participation in culture and to build youth workers’ and youth leaders’ capacity to maximize the potential of community-based cultural and creative activities for tackling youth unemployment and for promoting social inclusion, social innovation, gender empowerment and sustainable human development of European and African societies.It is implemented by a partnership of 3 EU and 3 African NGOs (BG, IT, HR, ZA,TZ, BW) with strong commitment to fostering social cohesion, sustainable development and youth participation. Within its geographical scope, the project aims at achieving three main specific objectives:- to build youth workers’ and youth leaders’ capacity to organize youth cultural activities at the community level in view of supporting youth employability and creativity, creating youth employment opportunities, mitigating the negative effects of youth unemployment, and encouraging social innovation, including through creative use of social and visual medias;- to equip youth workers and youth leaders with skills for youth cultural project management in view of contributing to sustainable human development and encouraging community strategies for turning culture and diversity into drivers of economic, social and cultural innovation;- to promote intercultural dialogue and respect between European and African societies and to strengthen EU-African youth cooperation in the culture and youth fields. The project will promote culture as a valuable resource in the fight against youth unemployment and its negative effects. It will contribute to social cohesion and youth participation. These results are achieved by involving 43 young people and youth workers from 6 project countries in capacity building trainings and practical implementation of two pilot cultural projects intended for a broader youth audience. Additional 75 young people and youth workers will be trained at the local level in project countries