It’s not just to weather this storm, but to forge through it. To stay safe and to thrive in VUCA times, and navigate among unpredictable realms. With COVID-19 blanketing the globe, people everywhere are facing fear, uncertainty, and hard decisions. Yes, we’re in the middle of a storm—but we’re as well all in the same boat. Somehow, with challenges everywhere, we must discover how to forge ahead. We have an opportunity and obligation to chart the right course. To readjust our services and programmes so we can reach and protect the vulnerable ones. We are witnessing daily examples of courageous people finding their footing. Now is the right time to look around, find each other, and hold fast. As leaders of Youth NGOs, we have an opportunity and obligation to chart the right course— to lay the groundwork for a better future. To join transnationally forces to support youth and their communities to generate valuable solutions. This map will show you how to properly use design thinking, creativity, and non-formal education as your allies in these tormented times. The involvement of youth workers as the frontline staff is essential to help young people solve community and individual problems through creativity and decision-making techniques. Creativity plays an essential role in helping youth deal with stress, fear, and uncertainty in times of crisis; express and regulate emotions in times of crisis; solve problems for fighting COVID-19; cope with stress and threats; fight with boredom installed during city lockdown. Creativity and resilience can help not only individual young people, as well as organisations can learn creative processes to solve problems and challenges posed by COVID-19 and adapt to the current and upcoming changes. Creativity, innovation, and design thinking were the main pillars of the second edition of the project “Creativity and social entrepreneurship for all”. ALPE team joined forces with 6 Youth NGOs: Lithuania, North Macedonia, Romania, Portugal, Bulgaria, Italy to create a training course 1 design thinking youth map for Youth NGOs, interested to learn step-by-step how to facilitate creative problem-solving “incubators” with the young people from their communities to find solutions to a variety of challenges. Moreover, together we have developed an interactive map with step-by-step instructions, structured brainstorming methods, problem-solving, and decision-making techniques to be used by Youth workers in online/offline brainstorming with young people. Specific objectives: O1: Support the professional development of 20 youth workers from 7 NGOs, through creative non-formal methods, increase their capacity to innovate through a TC about design thinking, creativity and e-learning. O2: Raise awareness about the importance of innovation in youth NGOs and the creative projects for young people with fewer opportunities and not only through TOOLKIT about creativity in youth work (made by the A1 participants) and through 7 DEOR workshops for min 100 European youth workers and 7 local workshops for 160 young people with fewer opportunities. O3: Develop a network of Youth NGOs with capacity, competences and know-how needed to bring innovation in their organisations and answer to the needs of their communities through: 1 immersive and interactive marathon of challenges proposed with local NGOs for A1 participants, 1 toolkit to be used during the workshops