The project “FIT for the future in Europe - international networking and qualification through workshops with Alevis in Europe” is a youth movement of the Alevi community’s HSK Kultur & Cemhaus, the cultural association of Alevis in Vienna, the Alevite faith community ALEVI in Austria.We have designed this project as we hope to build a future European platform for cooperation through an initial exchange of experience relating to youth work, running social associations and organisation across national boundaries. The participants of this youth movement will undertake a work programme during their stay in Austria with the support of group leaders and volunteers; comprising workshops and seminars, discussion groups and an appropriate leisure programme to enable participants to get to know each other and exchange their experiences. The main subjects of the workshops and seminars are: Professionalisation of youth/association and PR work of migrant self-organisations/youth associations. The workshops will each have a theoretical and a practical part. The participants will actively create options for activity and methods of working as an association and for PR that are oriented in particular to the experiences and needs of young people. The seminars and workshops will teach young people the skills that enable them to become involved in local integration projects and implement their own projects. The project is initially directed at active young people of various cultural and social origins who are interested in developing their (social, specialist) skills. We also want to address young people who to date have not been actively involved in social associations and have remained remote from offerings for Alevite youth. The participants of this project are young people with various social and cultural backgrounds. It is particularly important for us to involve young people from socially disadvantaged families and/or German and Austrian backgrounds. The leisure programmes will be a one-day tour of Vienna and a tour of Cologne. The historical tours should focus the participants on the historic dimension and build a bridge to the modern day. The project will strengthen the commitment to volunteering by young people with and without a migration background, reinforce their skills and generally encourage an exchange of views. By exchanging concepts with people of the same age in Austria, the young people should be able to critically assess their personal situation, the voluntary activity, the issue of “integration” and the relationship to the majority society in both countries. In addition to the two workshops, other important issues such as “integration” and the “feeling at home” as well as “acceptance” are to be handled in discussion groups. By sharing ideas, such values as democracy, equality, solidarity and friendship between participants from Germany and Austria with and without a migration background will be strengthened.After this project, the results will be shared with the majority society in Germany and Austria via presentations, press releases and websites/social media. Our association will look for information on the approach to applying for such projects and locations in a targeted way in order to explain the experience gained from the project and motivate applications. In particular, our association, which works closely with migrant organisations, will refer to the opportunities of the European ERASMUS+ programme in order to also include the migrant target group more strongly in the process of lifelong learning.