4 CSOs working with youth in Western Balkan region (Kosovo*, Albania, Serbia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina) face multiple crises. We, with support of partner organizations from the EU, MasterPeace (MP) (NL) and Growunited (GER), need to develop new ways to engage, connect, and empower youngsters. The overall needs overview matches with our main objective “to boost the competence, capacity, and recognition of CSOs in a transnational coalition of CSOs by jointly learning, evaluating, upgrading, and implementing innovative NFE formats that support our ambition to engage, connect, and empower youngsters (especially young women and minority groups in remote areas) outside formal learning. Main outputs/ products/ events: - 6 online trainings raising capacity; 12 Youth Workers’ Passion Plans; 4 CSO strategies; 2 NFE materials - 6 online trainings on 21st century skills related to EU values; 1 NFE material - 3 Thematic upgraded NFE Methodologies (Artivism, Doughnut Economy and Social Entrepreneurship in 5 languages); 16 Youth workers from Associated CSOs trained by our 12 Youth Workers - 28 trained Youth Workers guide 20 projects, resulting in 20 podcasts and 20 videos by 140 youngsters (70% female; 40% from minority background); - 1 transnational online Social Entrepreneurship challenge with 30 attendees from our region; - 4 local Brain Gain Summits, each with 30 stakeholders; 4 MOUs signed; - 1 MP Global Innovation Factory Challenge; 15 global CSOs attend; - 2 MP EU capacity building boot camps with 40 representatives from 15 EU countries plus region 1; - 7 webinars “taking the stage” meeting hundreds of youth workers during prestigious global online meetings; 7 reports on upgrading the CSOs strategy; - 3 global surveys on the needs of CSOs and Youth Workers; - 26 stories will be published and reach youth workers in and outside the consortium; - 2 M&E reports; - 20 CSOs request for information.