Objective 1: EU Youth Strategy/Erasmus plus With the "Coffee for Happiness 2020" project, we wanted to support disadvantaged young people in successfully managing the transition from school to training and work. Here, disadvantaged and non-disadvantaged young people from Germany and Poland jointly ran a café on the territory of the educational institution. In this way, we have realized, among other things, the concerns of the EU Youth Strategy participation, social integration, cross-border mobility and successful transitions to work, essential aspects of the Paris Declaration of Education Ministers of 2015, as well as the national diversity and inclusion strategy of Erasmus plus, in which diversity is seen as an opportunity and enrichment. Goal 2: School/work transition The junior company is an educational project form that is associated with a high level of motivation and interest on the part of participating students and their teachers. Junio Companies are considered to be an adequate method to bring young people closer to economic mechanisms in an experience-oriented way and to give the participants sustainable chances for a better entry into professional life. By experiencing self-efficacy through independent and team-based activity in the junior company, the young people have acquired the necessary attitudes and basic work-related skills required for training and the world of work, without having to go through an elaborate system of vocational preparation measures. Due to its complexity, commercial orientation, long-term nature and relevance for the young people's career prospects, the junior company represents a learning arrangement that goes beyond the framework of action-oriented teaching as project work. The cooperation with extracurricular educational institutions has helped to interlock formal and non-formal education. Goal 3: Inclusive learning The project has given the young people involved - many from special schools with learning deficits or from precarious family backgrounds - the chance to gain experience in everyday working life and acquire skills that they can later use in the world of work. In this way, they could be prepared for permanent entry into training and employment. We were also able to prevent social exclusion. The focus of inclusion was on promoting social skills and skills relevant to the training market as well as motivating the target group to actually apply what they had learned. One of the core target groups of our project was the group of adolescents with learning needs. In addition to the disadvantaged young people, however, students from regular schools also participated, so that a genuine inclusion between disadvantaged and non-disadvantaged young people could emerge. Goal 4: Intercultural learning and diversity Unfortunately, we were not able to integrate refugees into the project because our partner, who was supposed to take care of them, practically dropped out before the project started. We communicated this to Youth in Europe in February/March 2020 (Mr. Bertram, Mrs. Brandt, Mrs. Erbes). Nevertheless, we carried out the learning modules on democracy, equality, intercultural learning and diversity in the German-Polish context. These soft skills are necessary to orient oneself in our society. They were important for all participants, because surveys show that especially young people from East Germany do not consider democracy as the best form of government anymore. Goal 5: German-Polish learning in rural border Europe With the "German-Polish Junior Company" we wanted to counteract the structural weakness of rural areas in the Märkisches Oderland and the border region to a certain extent. After all, the project offered opportunities for transnational work. The young people were able to experience cross-border cooperation at first hand and gain experience for possible future borderless job prospects. In this way, barriers and prejudices were broken down and concrete opportunities and potential were opened up for young people. The café aimed to contribute in the long term to combating exclusion and radicalization and to strengthening German-Polish civil society.