Our main motivation to implement the project was to increase the quality of youth work and promote new, more innovative methodologies that are both effective and exciting for the learners. Prior to developing the project we have run a need assessment together with the project partners and its conclusions were that as educators who work with youngsters at risk of exclusion we do need to find new approaches to teaching. As we all work with disadvantaged target groups that include youngsters with learning difficulties, it is necessary to create workshops, trainings, and other educational activities that are adjusted to the needs of our learners. This is especially important because many of the young people we work with often find it difficult to focus and they struggle with processing information. They are also not so eager to learn as many of them have difficult experiences with the schools and formal education in general. To encourage them and show them that non-formal education can be fun, we need to work on our methods, especially focusing on how we deliver the information and how we transfer knowledge/skills to youngsters. All the partner organizations have had a strong background experience and knowledge on non-formal education, were open to experimenting and ready to create more exciting learning content, but most of them were lacking knowledge and/or skills how to do it. That is why we jointly decided to implement a training course focused on one specific methodology –graphic facilitation which is a way of presenting educational content in a more visual way that is based on using simple drawings. The training course that was the core part of this project was focused very much on delivering the method to the youth workers and teaching them how to use it in practice in their everyday work with young people at risk of social exclusion. Our main aim was to raise professional capacities of youth workers by equipping them with innovative, accessible, and practical tools that can help them address the educational needs of their young beneficiaries in a more effective way, helping them to engage in a more exciting but productive learning process. The project objectives were: - Increasing NGOs and youth workers capacities by equipping them with methods of visual facilitation and therefore increasing the quality of the educational activities addressed to people with fewer opportunities they offer - Deconstructing stereotypes concerning learning - Promoting a better understanding of specific challenges and solutions related to working with young people at risk - Promoting innovative approaches to learning/teaching that can be used both in non-formal and formal educational sectors - Establishing a network of partners committed to promoting innovation at education that in consequence leads to increasing social inclusion in Europe - Developing educational materials (post-project publication on visual facilitation and learning to learn) that can be used as a basis for cross-sectoral projects