Seeking ways to combat the crucial issue of youth social exclusion, surveys in the last years find that apart from being a source of entertainment and physical fitness, sport is a powerful social and educational tool in achieving goals on not only personal development but also peace in society. “Through sport, we can educate children on leadership, foster role models, promote peace and give children hope for the future,” said Wilfried Lemke, United Nations Special Advisor on Sport for Development and Peace, whose job is to find ways how to use sport to help achieve Millennium Development Goals. Lemke also underscored the important role sport plays in promoting tolerance, understanding, and gender parity among people. “When players are on the pitch, they forget their differences such as colour or religion; they just play and have fun. They learn values that make them better human beings.” SOL was a European youth initiative aiming to address the challenges of social exclusion and marginalization of young people while raising awareness of the importance of sport as a worldwide known tool for tackling inequalities and social exclusion which gave the base of our initiative designed by young people for young people. Fifty-Fifty believed that sport was a key tool for developing important social and personal values in youth, such as team spirit, inclusion, discipline, perseverance and fair play. From our experience, we proudly embraced the belief that young people who practice sport were less likely to fall into extremism and it facilitates their inclusion, brings them the opportunity to acquire sport values as part of their educational process and allows them to feel part of a group and society. SOL project aimed at providing a Lab, where youth workers learned to successfully implement Sport. They received a hands-on experience on how to use sport as an educational tool for youth and social development. The project placed a potential and interest in becoming community youth workers. The project aimed to train and equip youth workers and youth leaders who are working directly with disadvantaged young people in underprivileged rural and urban areas with essential tools, methods and skills on how to use the European Training Strategy (ETS) methodology to provide sustainable development in their regions. SOL's objective was to build the capacity of 40 youth workers from 10 countries in two activities: (1) a Seminar and (2) a Training Course, taking place respectively in Georgia and in Greece. The first activity aimed to set a common understanding of ETS among all participants by, for and through sport. A1 provided a perfect opportunity for preparation and introduction to A2, where participants, as experienced youth workers, developed ETS tools, tested them and planned their practical usage. During the first activity, we set a common understanding in all participants regarding education BY, FOR and THROUGH Sport. The objectives were: •Raise awareness on the importance of intercultural dialogue, mutual understanding and tolerance among young Europeans of different origins •Draw attention to the importance of social inclusion especially concerning young people from disadvantaged cultural and ethnic minority groups •Develop young people’s skills and competences to become more active, sporty and health-conscious European citizens •Make young people advocates of inclusion, tolerance, dialogue and active, healthy living in their local communities •Provide opportunities for young people with fewer opportunities through sport-based non-formal education Needs addressed: -Improve their skills of youth workers and gain knowledge on how to use sport as an educational tool -Get a better understanding of non-formal education and its many opportunities for lifelong learning -Develop a sustainable and diverse youth network -Generate new project ideas to be applied under Erasmus+ -Meet colleagues who are working with youth and exchange best practices One of the central issues in these challenges was that national education systems simply did not offer training in the skills required for the labor market, leading to thousands of unfilled positions across the continent. ETS aimed to fill this gap by improving the soft skills, intercultural competencies, and teamwork of youth from across the EU. The project was in line with all objectives of the Erasmus+ Program and EU Youth Strategy and, more specifically, contributed to the achievement of the main objective of the renewed framework for European cooperation in the youth field (2010- 2018). The project improved the efficiency of cooperation among youth leaders and increased the capacities of young people in the EU. Through Non-Formal Education (NFE) methods, the project provided opportunities for young people in education and enhanced their employability in the labor market.