The social exclusion of young people in this way has significant costs for the EU economy as NEETs cost over 160 billion euros per year (EC, 2014) and society since the inactivity and exclusion can lead to antisocial or dangerous behaviour, often to political alienation, or an attraction to the extremes of the political spectrum. To respond to these tough circumstances, the project aimd to promote ideas and tools based on positive thinking so to help youth workers to reach and support those vulnerable groups. Carefully chosen methodologies, boosted youth workers ability to help people who are NEETs or ESL to rebound back in society. Being NEET or ESLeaver is strongly related with low motivation, low resilience, sense of initiative and proactivity. To address these issues, the method on which the project was focus is positive thinking, useful to support young people in observing the world in a new way, based on their skills, passions, inclinations and strengths so to find the most appropriate way in education re-integration or in the search for a job. The project’s main objective was to provide youth workers with competences and tools to effectively act as mentors for NEETs and ESLeavers supporting them in their re engagement in society, experimenting positive thinking approaches for developing resilience, problem solving and proactivity, developing soft skills and employability skills. In addition, it foster quality improvements in youth work, enhancing cooperation between organizations in the youth field and awareness towards EU funding opportunities. Youth workers experimented practical tools, methods and strategies to be directly applied with the target group, such as storytelling, ITC for selfpromotion into the labour market, and awareness raising campaigns, as well as many non-formal education methods, which will enrich their competences and set of tools for be more effective in their daily work.