"Standards for Open Youth Centres in Europe” is an international project that aims to raise awareness about youth work and support it. The project involves 8 partners from different countries who worked together to give greater recognition to youth centres, in particular open spaces, informal offers and the culture of participation and co-determination leading to the self-determination of young people. The partners involved in the project are Roter Baum Berlin (Germany), RIS (Slovenia), Strauss APS (Italy), Asociația Curba de Cultură (Romania), Narandžasti (Serbia), TACC (Spain), Zdravo da ste (Bosnia and Herzegovina), La Ligue 13 (France). With this project, we support open youth work as a particularly positive model for the development and opportunities for participation and active citizenship of young people and, for this reason, we support and promote the 9th objective of the EU Youth Goals "Spaces and participation for all". The aim is to strengthen the democratic participation and autonomy of young people in order to provide dedicated spaces for young people in all areas of society. With this project, we have pursued what we consider useful and necessary objectives to improve the quality of work with young people, especially in youth centres with an open/informal approach: - To promote open youth work, as an alternative kind of learning and education open to youth. Open youth work accompanies young people on their path to independence and adult maturity, integrates them into social processes and contributes to the integration of disadvantaged young people and to the prevention of their exclusion. We defined with the KA2 project 'Open Youth Work for an Open Society' the main characteristics of open youth work. This project reconfirms them, strengthens them and promotes them with even more motivation thanks to the results achieved through the project activities. - To promote the objective 9 "Space and participation for all" of the European Youth Goals. By providing places, resources and youth workers/professionals in line with the needs of young people, we support young people in developing and expressing themselves independently and together with their peers. We firmly believe that, in addition to formal and non-formal educational opportunities, open youth work offers ample opportunities for self-fulfilment, co-determination and thus the development of active citizenship. - To design a model youth centre in Europe (using the results produced by KA2, the seminar and the youth exchange), which builds its services on an open space and informal working methods. The model contains suggestions on how environments should be designed to work flexibly and according to the needs of young people, what resources should be available and how the profile of the youth centre can be designed to change with changing user groups. -To develop a training profile for the youth worker, together with the skills he/she should possess and the space and environment conditions he/she would need in order to work flexibly and according to the needs of young people. To achieve these objectives, we stimulated a discussion involving young people and youth workers through a seminar and a youth exchange. The work done and the reworking of the results based on the perspective of young people and youth workers on the topic of "Open Youth Centres" allowed us to strengthen the results already obtained in the KA2 project, partly by confirming them, partly by enriching their content: - The youth exchange allowed us to identify the needs and interests of young people related to "open youth centres": we asked them and let them express themselves on what a youth centre is, what activities it can be suitable for, what resources in terms of material and human resources they need and what support they need. The youth exchange results of the youth exchange enabled us to design a model of a youth centre in Europe that builds its services on an open space and informal working methods. In addition, the youth exchange allowed young people to exchange experiences on how their lives, including in youth centres, are carried out, learning how to make decisions together in an international context. - The seminar we held included the views of eight countries. It was an important opportunity to discuss and enrich the results of the KA2 project "Open Youth Work for an Open Society". It brought the partner organisations together to visualise and approve a common standard for informal youth centres. This standard was considered by the partner organisations as an implementation factor, taking into account local youth participation and national standards.