This project is a youth exchange between a local youth group - Iklin 20+ Parish Group and Limerick youth Services. It will involve 15 young people aged between 18-25 years from each country, together with 5 youth leaders. It will be held in Malta between the 6-12th September 2014. The participants of these exchange are young people coming from the 2 youth groups. Several of them are facing some degree of challenge when it comes to employment, including unemployment. The project is carried out to address the issue of employability. Through this project we want to achieve the following: 1. as Europeans we aim at contributing to achieve the targets of the EU, namely the targets about employment presented in Europe 2020 indicators; we also aim at contributing to reach National targets indicated in National Policies about employment; 2. to develop our soft skills related to employability such as team building, communication, entrepreneurial and leadership skills; 3. become more aware of what leads to unemployment, about the consequences of unemployment and how to overcome this problem. This will help us to be better equipped to work towards higher employability, more able to include initiatives in favour of employability in our youth work and to raise awareness about the theme in the wider community; 4. become more aware of what employers tend to search for in an employee during recruitment; 5. have a wider perspective of issues related to employment and youth work through discussions and sharing of experience with young people from another country; 6. become aware of and appreciate basic cultural aspects of people from a different country and build relationships with young people from another country; 7. develop a stronger working relationship between the two partners in order to set the grounds for further collaboration; 8. to give further visibility to our groups, youth work in general, this and to the Erasmus+ programme. The exchange is built around various activities in a non-formal learning setup and that leave ample space for informal learning to take place. The participants learning process will be supported through mentoring, using the Youth pass tool. The envisaged results: 1. as young people we want to show that we are concerned with issues that are effecting our Nations and the EU; thus we want to learn better ways to contribute to the initiatives being taken on different levels; 2. we want to enhance our employability; 3. we want to become more equipped to help other young people to become more employed and to help raise awareness about and act against unemployment among people in the community; 4. we want to give further visibility to the initiatives and work being done by young people; 5. we want to contribute towards the promotion and recognition of non-formal and informal learning as a fundamental tool for personal development The Envisaged Impact and potential long term benefits on, Participants: - are expected to achieve and develop skills, attitudes and competences which will make them more employable; - will become aware of EU tools for employment; - will gain certification for their learning experience; - will develop a positive attitude towards life-long learning; - will be aware of risks posed by long-term unemployment; - are expected to widen their views about the main theme and other issues through their interaction and collaboration with people from another country; - will be more equipped to bring about positive change in regards to unemployment; - will gain visibility in the local community. Participating Organisations - will gain visibility within the community and among authorities who will participate in Sunday's event; - will gain visibility through the initiatives to promote this project and share its results; - will have an increased capacity to offer better youth work services since their members will gain experience and knowledge; - will develop a partnership which can help them collaborate further within the Youth Work field; - will help in the process of internationalization of both organisations We strongly believe that Iklin 20+ Parish Group will benefit a lot from the vast experience in youth work of the Limerick Youth Services, which is an organisation that comes from a country with a strong tradition in the field. Target groups - the local community will become more aware of the problem of unemployment - the local community will have the opportunity to experience an inter-cultural activity - given that some of the participants are youth leaders, and given that it is foreseen that this exchange will help them gain further competence in dealing with issues related to employability, the young people with whom they work will benefit indirectly from this exchange. It is very likely that their leaders will be in a better position to help them in their education-for-employability process.