Our project comes as the result of a networking event organised by the lead organisation in Manchester last year. It was apparent by the standrad of the young people from the UK that all the other partners wanted to share the skills the UK young people seem to have developed through youth work. Preparation since has created a strong trust and working relationship among the 4 partners who shared a common interest in developing work skills among young people through youth work. The project will be led by Young People supprted by staff in each country and a project manager. 1. Young people from the UK will be reflecting on their own experience of learning in non formal settings and sharing best practice with young people from 3 other European Countries using a variety of methods: virtual training, animation, training materials on outcomes identification and measurement. Young people (many of whom come from backgrounds with fewer opportunities) get together to improve their chances of transition into the world of work through a project devised by themselves. The project is both “physical” and virtual (physical in that the learning happens through actually doing things together for others) and virtual in the sharing of the results and the learning among young people of different countries, experiencing same problems, barriers and yet with different local context 2. It is also innovative because we will create an open source website of materials for use in non formal settings with short animations created by young people with help from professionals and an app that young people and youth workers can access in their phones to measure, describe and record different life skills and transferable skills they acquire through youth work and other non formal learnings. We will use animation for a lot of the materials to be created. Animation has been identified by the young people from the partnership countries as a very useful tool for training because: - it can easily be understood despite language and other barriers - it engages the audience and it is easy to concentrate and not to switch off - it is fun and different 3. Finally there will be a training on outcomes for young people also available in the open source website which will share best experiences of how to design and deliver youth work that has a positive impact on young people’s lives and futures and their transition from education (formal and non formal) to employment. Thus IT will be used and taught so that young people and youth workers will be fully fluent in this communication media and essential skill.