Youth participation in Europe is often limited to (1) youth participation in NGOs and co-management structures at local and national level and (2) youth work, usually implemented top-bottom as a social service aimed at young people. The local youth councils are closest and easiest to access for young people, but very often they do not clearly know their role, mandate and are little known for young people. To ensure sustainable and impactful youth participation we have to strengthen youth participatory structures (youth councils, BRU - youth councils in NAV system, youth patient councils, etc) but also create participatory structures or mechanisms in other policy areas that affect youth. The local youth participation situation is very different from country to country. In Norway, Germany, Denmark youth centers have a wide-spread network, were pupils councils are playing an active role. Lithuania has very well developed systems: municipal coordinators of youth affairs, municipal youth councils, regional youth councils of NGO‘s and youth workers are acting, co-management structures at local and national levels are existing, but this model is involving only 10-15% of young people at the municipality level. There is a huge gap between youth policy implementation at the national and local level in Poland; Portugal has good but strongly underfunded youth policy structure, and also it is very prone to political changes. At the municipal level, different specialists are working with youth: public health specialists, youth coordinators, youth specialists, leisure time activity specialists, youth workers. The quality of youth participation depends on the competencies of those who work directly with young people. It is important to train these specialists - to give them up-to-date knowledge about youth age psychology and context in which young people are living, youth policy, youth work, help them develop political proposals on the local level, empower to advocate the changes proposed. These competencies of municipal specialists are essential in order to improve living conditions for young people, contribute to solving the youth unemployment problem, organize youth leisure time activities and assist NEET‘s youth in the transition period, help them to integrate into the social processes. Same competencies as for civil servants are crucial for youth workers, who should be able to mainstream youth issues and topics to decision-makers. For efficient cross-sectorial cooperation at the municipal level, it is important to have the representatives of local administration and NGO sector to be able to learn from each other, share perspectives how they see local realities and develop common actions together. There are a lot of common grounds for discussions and sharing experience from all 10 countries. We will use our "360-degree youth participation model" and create (1) recommendations how to strengthen existing local youth councils and (2) map opportunities for new/more youth participation arenas in other policy areas, which could be used in all 10 project countries as well as all over Europe. With this project we aim to: - To share good practices of youth participation at the local level in different policy areas; - Train municipal specialists, youth workers, and local NGOs to deal with youth issues, to analyze youth situation, develop proposals for youth policy development at the local level and provide tools how to advocate and promote youth participation innovations; - To develop youth participation support schemes, based on the youth situation, at specific municipalities and institutions participants will be coming from; - To discuss trends, strategies, needs of youth-friendly policy-making, youth participation, youth work in EU and project counties. - Create ideas for future international cooperation. Project relevance to the Erasmus+ program: The training course will support learners gaining competencies needed to strengthen youth participation on the local level, improving the personal development of participants, quality of their work and employability in the European labour market and beyond. Improve participants ability to communicate and work in a foreign language. Raise participants' awareness and understanding of youth policy implementation in other countries, at national and European level. As well, raise cultural awareness of neighboring countries. Provide tools for participants to active participation in society and the ability to contribute to local development and a sense of European citizenship and identity. Contribute to cohesive development in youth participation in 10 countries. Contribution to EU youth strategy implementation through the open method of coordination, through the peer learning process of municipal specialists and youth workers.