The pillars of empowerment aimed to create a 2.0 youth worker/educator equipped with multiple tools to develop competencies and create a personal path towards competence implementation and goal accomplishment to become a change agent in the own local community focusing on youth leadership and leadership empowerment. The selected participants got a chance to participate in 2 fully-funded training courses to build: 1. training for coaches on youth empowerment with coaching tools Strengberg, Austria | 30th May - 7th June 2022 2. implementation of local coaching of the action plans created by local participants 3. training for trainers on youth empowerment and harvesting tools Slovakia Košice, Slovakia | 3rd September - 9th September 2022 4. implementation of local trainings/workshops/webinars on youth empowerment Furthermore, they received ongoing support from the national partner organizations in piloting and prototyping activities locally, access to an international peer group, and a certificate upon successful completion of all required tasks - YOUTHPASS. OBJECTIVES: To train youth workers to become trainers on youth empowerment while also developing competences as graphic facilitation, enabling them to locally implement training on youth empowerment in their local reality. To train the same group of youth workers, upon completion of the local training on youth empowerment with a basic set of coaching competencies, and to work with the participants on the local training on youth empowerment to develop their action plains. To observe, monitor, assess and evaluate both the residential international training for trainers and coaches and graphic facilitation, as well as the local actions, in order to provide empirical evidence and verifiable indicators of the efficacy of this formula, and its need to be further implemented and invested upon. All these objectives were met during our 4 stages (2x TCs, 2x local activities). Participation in the fully-funded international training course content of: focus on the personal development of participants and the development of constructive attitudes and self-confidence to engage in coaching practices providing practical coaching tools and dedicated space and time for practicing. focus on leadership and professional development of constructive attitudes and leadership skills the extensive use of graphic facilitation and nonformal education methods, coaching demo sessions. Access to an international peer group Access to internal bibliography Upon successful completion of all required tasks: a certificate