he overall objective is to prevent violent extremism through providing the youth with spaces and means for establishing dialogue and co-creation processes. This project was built on having the following understanding for events that took place within the EuroMed region. Over the last decades, Europe has experienced a variety of attacks against civil society emerging from the violent radicalization of specific extremist groups. Religious inspired terror is widely reported in the media and easily labeled as ‘Islamist fundamentalism’ or ‘Jihadism’, terms that wrongly associate Islam and the religious concept of ‘Jihad’ with violence. Contrarily, rightwing extremism is far less present in the public discourse and more resistance is encountered to its labeling as ‘racist’ and ‘terrorism’. The recent history showed that offenders are young people (e.g. the shooting in Munich 07 2016, where nine people have been killed by an 18-year-old, the attacks carried out in Barcelona by a 19-year-old person). Radicalization of youth leading to violent extremism in the form of violence is an urgent problem considering the rise of young people joining extremist groups. A UNDP's research well explains how a fragile setting can open the path to extremism leading to violence. Anyone can be radicalized, but factors such as being easily influenced and impressionable make children and young people particularly vulnerable. Young people are the main target of recruitment and mobilization efforts by extremist organizations. RAN defines radicalization as the process of social, psychological, and ideological changes leading to extremism and potentially violent extremism. Radicalization is a gradual process that young people can undertake without really understanding it. Psychologists attribute this vulnerability to several factors, including but not limited to, young people’s search for identity, a sense of meaning, fellowship, purpose, recognition and belonging. We know that violent extremism is fueled in large part by exclusion, lack of opportunity, marginalization and grievances. Around the world, poverty, discrimination, and inequalities exacerbate perceptions of exclusion and injustice. They create a ‘perfect storm’ for radicalization, recruitment and extremism. Violent extremism is a denial of the democratic values of tolerance, respect, inclusion that are at the core of the European Union. It is urgent to promote peaceful, creative ways for participation and activism, for expressing oneself and for methods that can engage youngsters. The OSCE itself calls for engaging and empowering youth by creating opportunities for them through the promotion of human rights, dialogue and democratic principles, enhancing educational opportunities.The project intends to provide youth workers with tools, networks and knowledge to support them in their future daily work. Youth workers play a crucial role (bottom-up) in preventing and countering violent extremism and radicalization, because of their ability to foster social change among youth, especially in today’s world, where the role of formal education is often discussed in relation to an eroding leadership. Youth work plays a very important role, being close to young people, helping them to value diversity and to play an active part in democratic life, with a view to the promotion and protection of democracy, the rule of law, human rights and fundamental freedoms” (Council of Europe’s CM Recommendation 2010/7).