"Lack of empathy is related to aggression, delinquency, and lack of success in private and professional life."We agreed that it is crucial to increase empathy in young people before they become adults.All partners noticed challenges/problems young people face regarding agression, lack of tolerance, lack of understanding, bullying, online agression and bullying, social exclusion, lack of awareness on differences between people and their feelings, lack of humility, lack of emotion self-regulation that are caused because of lack of empathy or low level of empathy.When speaking with younsters, some showed higher level of empathy towards animals than towards other people -"it is hard to empathize with others" said one of the highschool students in Dobre Rece assosiation office.The idea came up to us after longterm discussion on - "why is it hard to empathize with others?" MAIN AIM: To equipping youth workers and youth leader with certain skills, competences, knowledge, attitudes, tools and methods on building the empathy in young people. Objectives of the project: - to gather youth workers and youth leaders working with young people sharing similar interests, having different level of experience and practice to exchange knowledge, skills, competences and attitudes in order to know how to increase the empathy in young people; - to prepare and test tools, instruments, methods for youth workers and youth leaders that will support them in leading youth for a change - to teach youth workers, partner organisations and young people about empathy - to increase the awareness on importance of building empathy in youngsters - to develop competences of youth workers and youth leaders in facilitating workshops on empathy for young people; - to activate youth workers and youth leaders on local and national level - to build up long-term partnerships between participants and participating organisations - to stimulate the capacity of participating organisations on local, national and international level - to promote Erasmus Plus Programme and European Union values on local, national and international level This aim and objectives of the project link to objectives of Erasmus+ Programme, especially with the overall objectives of the renewed framework for European cooperation in the youth field (2010-2018), especially by empowering NGOs, creating network of organisations able to implement activities on European level, and by fostering professionalization of youth work in general. As such it also directly meets objectives of the Key Action 1, in particular by improving professional competences of youth workers, increases capacities to trigger changes in terms of updating partner organisations, promotes non-formal education, improves quality of youth work in general (to benefit of young people in partner organisations’ target groups).