The reason why we wanted to carry out this project is because all the organisations involved in this project have recognised the same needs and our active youth involved in the creation of the project showed a very positive response to it. Exchanging meaningful conversations with our partners and with our active youth involved in the creation of this project, we explored our visions and connected over the importance of developing empathy and compassion, especially under conflict situations. We perceived that among the youth we work with there is a lack of conflict resolution skills - they never had the chance to learn how to communicate empathically and compassionately with others and maybe even more importantly within themselves. And this derives in other major conflicts in their daily lives such as exclusion, discrimination, segregation and violence. In order to address these needs, the aim of Embodying Compassion was: -To provide young people including those from marginalised backgrounds with the context for them to exercise empathy and compassion; exchanging tools to transform conflicts by fostering intercultural dialogue, enhancing tolerance, respect and sense of belonging to a community and therefore preventing violent radicalisation of young people and leading to social inclusion. The specific objectives of Embodying Compassion were: -To promote inclusion, diversity and intercultural dialogue among 26 participants from 5 different countries, within an intercultural and diverse group including youth with fewer opportunities. -To prevent violent radicalisation of youth by promoting nonviolent communication and conflict transformation tools among the 26 participants of this project. -To explore all together empathic ways of expression (including innovative embodied ways), increasing compassion among those 26 participants and empowering them to express themselves with tolerance and respect towards others. -To facilitate the co-creation of a safe context where all the 26 participants can feel accepted and experience a sense of belonging, while providing tools to export this safe environment in the participant's daily life. -To raise awareness about multiculturality in Europe and promote the Erasmus+ programme and EU values among youth.