The word empowerment denotes a growth process, both for the individual and for a group, based on increasing self-esteem, self-efficacy and self-determination in order to bring out latent resources and lead the individual to consciously take possession of his or her potential. This process leads to a reversal of the perception of one's own limits with a view to achieving results beyond one's own expectations. There are, however, profound contradictions between the interest and promotion at the theoretical level of human rights and self-determination and the real possibilities that each of us experiences in our daily practices, to the extent that human rights and self-determination are now often regarded as a kind of utopian aspiration to which every human being should strive. One of the most relevant contradictions, in our opinion, lies in the fact that the focus on the dignity of the person, far from guaranteeing every human being decent living conditions, often ends up emphasising a kind of individualism as opposed to the community dimension. The social fabric in many European contexts, for example, is damaged by individualism and the inability to network between individuals, in the belief that securing rights and decent living conditions necessarily implies not recognising the same rights for other human beings. The same kind of competitive pattern is also applied in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: the recognition of one of the two peoples implies, in the view of many, the disavowal of the other people. Moreover, while at least the network of community in the Israeli-Palestinian area was once very much in place and provided many individuals in fragile conditions with support and backing, in more recent times even this idea of community is disappearing and conflicts are emerging that cut across it and create the conditions for its destruction. Even when self-determination concerns a group or a community, the empowerment process runs the risk of generating an almost exclusive focus on the inside of the group and not on the outside. The aim of the project was therefore an organic and articulated reflection on the relationship between so-called Human Empowerment and the recognition of the same condition to other individuals and groups/communities. Several scholars have described empowerment at the individual level as a transition from learned passivity and a sense of mistrust with respect to being able to change to the learning of hope and increased confidence. In this sense, the project is designed to trigger processes that lead not only to the learning of hope and self-determination of the individual, but to the recognition and support of the same change in other individuals and communities. We therefore set out to stimulate in a group of young people from different countries and different socio-economic situations the learning of hope, self-confidence and the appropriation of their own potential, but at the same time the recognition of the same process in others. We were driven to design this project by working with young people who increasingly show worrying signs of learned passivity, of accepting their own passivity, of not being able to change their own and others' situations, of a kind of fatalism. These phenomena undoubtedly have something to do with the social, technological and political changes affecting both Europe and the Middle East, where people are now resigning themselves not only to a war situation that does not seem to depend on any particular political will, but also to tensions and signs of disintegration of a social fabric that until now had compensated in some form for the deprivations that the young people in that area were experiencing as a result of the war. By now, the Israeli-Palestinian war is of little interest, it is talked about less and less, and above all, the capacity for hope has diminished. We therefore thought and believe that it becomes essential to stimulate empowerment processes at the individual level, which are however interconnected with the recognition of the same process in others. On the other hand, technology shows us that the concept of neighbourhood has changed, the support networks we can count on do not necessarily include only those who are physically close to us, but we can help and count on people who are also on the other side of the wall or the sea.