Nowadays youth work plays a very important role for youth development. Youth work encompasses a broad range of activities (social, cultural, educational, sports-related and political) carried out with, by and for young people through nonformal and informal learning. Youth work provides out-of-school education, as well as leisure activities managed by professional or voluntary youth workers and youth leaders. During the Erasmus + project in Malta in 2019 some of partners met together, discussed the necessity of this project, where participants could see, discuss and exchange the good practices of youth work, to share experiences, to learn from each other and in this way to develop youth work in Programme and Partners countries. The main AIM of the project "Reality of Youth Work" was to present youth work in Latvia, exchange of experience with partners, improve working methods with youth from different backgrounds and strengthen cooperation of Programme and Partner countries in the field of youth. Project was for youth workers, leaders, municipality representatives from the youth departments from Programme and Partner countries. Partner countries gave the added value for the project as the youth work in Partner countries is less developed and participants learned from the best practices and used it for the development of youth work in their realities. Participants of this study visit also got a chance to build partnerships and plan new joint initiatives. Moreover, there was an opportunity to learn from the local youth initiatives, as well as to share the best practices in terms of successful youth engagement in Europe. Objectives of the study visit were following: •To learn about the reality of youth work in Latvia, Latgale region; •To support understanding of youth work realities of participating countries; •To improve working methods of organizations with youth from different backgrounds; •To learn about youth work in towns and rural area and to compare them; •To foster partnership building between organizations from Programme and Partner countries; •To explore the added value of the European dimension of youth initiatives; •To facilitate the acquisition by participants of communication, teamwork and project management skills of international activities and networking; •To understand the impact and social change a youth center can have within the local community; •To increase the strategic thinking of youth workers in order to create long-term interventions for personal and professional development of young people.