ETHNIC was born out of today’s challenges regarding the refugees & immigrants’ crisis. Refugees & immigrants face the trauma of uprooting (breaking the deep & meaningful connections with their countries), leaving the familiar environment for the unknown, the disorientation that follows, adaptation to a new environment & familiarity with local resources, cultural shock, teenage crises & parenteral dilemmas aggravated due to relocation (which may lead to violent radicalization of young people), negative attitudes on the part of society (discrimination, prejudices, xenophobic attitudes, social exclusion, & in the context of the economic crisis, immigrants can be scapegoated), the degree of suspicion of local communities over "newcomers" due to poor information, etc. Young refugees and immigrants need educational & social inclusion programs, development of learning capacity and assessment of the transferability of professional skills, counselling & support in the process of adaptation (especially from the point of view of cultural differences). The nongovernmental organizations therefore have an important role in both: • Approaching & helping the refugees and immigrants to better integrate into the local communities – through creative inclusive projects; • Raising awareness about the refugees and immigrants' situation in the local communities, fighting hate speech & building dialogue & understanding between the locals & the newcomers – through different methods & awareness campaigns. As all partner organizations selected are actively involved in inclusive projects & activities in their local communities (most of them working with the young people with fewer opportunities), the entire project comes to their aid, being built on their needs to develop their organizational capacity by developing experts in the field of refugees and immigrants issues – updating and adapting the competences of the youth workers to the new target group. When the project’s needs assessment was carried out, we based our research on a questionnaire which was compiled by more than 300 young people (between 18 and 30 years old) from the partners’ local communities. More than 65% of those who filled in the questionnaire declared that they do not want refugees or immigrants in their communities. At the question “why?” more than 40% of them said “I don’t know” and the other 60% of those saying no based their reasons on stereotypes and mainstream answers: (they are stealing our jobs etc.), which shows a lack of information about this topic in the local communities. Also, each partner has conducted internal focus group meetings with the youth workers, to identify their learning needs and problems. In total, more than 80 youth workers from all partners have been involved. Objectives of the mobility accomplished: - Developed and updated the capacity of 36 youth workers from partner countries to approach and help the young refugees and immigrants to better integrate into the local communities – through creative inclusive projects; - Involved 36 youth workers in raising awareness upon the refugees and immigrants situation in the local communities, fighting the hate speech and building dialogue and understanding between the locals and the newcomers – through different non formal education methods, 12 awareness campaigns and different visual tools. - Facilitated the best practices exchange at international level between present NGOs and 36 youth workers in the field of non-formal education and promoted the effectiveness of non-formal methods in addressing the current challenges to the crisis of refugees and immigrants. - Enhanced the international collaboration among the NGOs involved in the project and to facilitate the development of 5 future non-formal education projects whose main target group will be young refugees or immigrants.