The main reason we wanted to carry out this project was to help young people in situations of unemployment to be better prepared to face challenges during their transition from education to professional life, whether trying to enter the labour market or exploring other alternative career paths after finishing their studies. Another issue that brought our attention to the problem and motivated to work on the project, was the constantly increasing youth unemployment rate in the participating countries. In 2019, when the application was formed, the rates were significant already, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which largely influences the flow of the project, the employment situation worsened, which proved us right in the selected topic. The main objectives of our project were: - to empower the future professional development of young people by involving them in non-formal activities aimed at exploring the challenges they face; - to exchange practices; - improve participants' competencies; - to form a clearer, broader vision for their future career development on the labour market, as self-employed or as entrepreneurs. To achieve these main objectives, we planned to accomplish the following more specific goals: - Investigate the specific local conditions and the main obstacles to employment faced by our young participants and identify the ones that can be overcome by improving one’s competencies; - Exchange youth employment practices from each country in order to learn from each other; - Develop/Improve relevant work competencies and gain practical/close to real-life experience through non-formal activities; - Develop soft skills like teamwork, communication, critical thinking, active listening, initiative and becoming aware of the importance of these often neglected skills; - Develop career planning and management competencies; - Develop competencies for self-employment or entrepreneurial projects; - Broaden knowledge on opportunities for gaining practical experience and/ or further developing professional and personal competencies - like internships, volunteering, trainings, etc; - Develop an individual plan/ specific ideas and steps for the professional future of each participant.