In the International Youth Health Organization (YHO), we believe that Youth Health is one of the most important values, which is often overlooked or dismissed on the high-political agenda. The lack of health is one of the biggest obstacles to Youth reaching their full potential and the neglect of healthy lifestyles among young people can result in severe disabilities and diseases later in life. The highest burden of disease to our society is posed by the Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs), including mental disorders, that are increasingly prevalent among Youth. The mission of YHO, that is closely related to the aims of this project are: 1. To prevent the onset of NCDs. 2. To empower youth to work on preventive programmes and projects, research, advocacy campaigns and policy making processes to improve health of adolescents. 3. To ensure a safe space for growth and development of young people, where they will be protected from the harmful effects of risk factors for NCDs. Youth organizations play a key role in access to young people and can ensure a safe, risk-free space for youth. Despite that, it often happens that youth organisations do not realise the effect they (can) have on the health of youth and lack competencies to ensure a safe space. Furthermore, some of them even conduct practices that can harm the health of young. With proposed conference on NCD and youth, we aim to bring together the Public Health and Youth sectors to ensure better working and living conditions of young people in Europe. Primarily, we would like to empower youth workers and leaders to set up a healthy environment for their constituents locally. At the conference, we will address the most pressing needs of the youth workers, which include: lack of knowledge (on NCDs), lack of skills (research, project management, advocacy, policy making), and lack of a professional-social network between organisations. With the acquired new competencies, the participants will be able to introduce new ways of working in their organisations, which will improve the health and productivity of their members. Additionally, they will learn how to advocate for more comprehensive youth health policies and actively engage in policy making processes. With this project, we address the general and specific objectives of the Erasmus + programme by: • Building competencies of youth workers on important values to our society (health) • Building competencies of youth workers to enable a higher-quality of their work environment • With prevention of NCDs, we ensure that young people are not marginalised due to their health conditions • Participants become more aware of the young people with health issues (and can be marginalised because of it) • Encourage and empower young people for local, national and regional policy reform. • Enable an exchange of opinions, practices and values in an inter-cultural, safe environment