The Value-driven Advanced LEadership (VALE) Project was a training course for 24 youth workers and leaders aged 18-30 in the nonprofit sector, organised exclusively by youth. The project sought to move beyond the classical leadership training book by prioritising depth and impact to help participants grow their leadership competencies and understand the personal values that guide them – empowering them in their everyday leadership and youth work. The project was initiated as a response to an identified need for advanced training for experienced youth leaders within organisations lacking the resources for specialised programming. In doing this, the course provided the participants with the context, the tools, and the support to ensure a profound and long-lasting impact that strengthened the participants’ role as leaders, innovators, and shapers of best practices in our partner organisations. The course aimed to contribute to capacity building for quality youth work in YFU organisations across Europe by empowering youth workers to become more aware, skilled, and value-driven leaders. During the course, the participants were challenged to examine and build on their own leadership experiences, as well as to integrate the newfound insights continuously into their youth work context in their general practice as well as concrete workshops and projects under the guidance of The VALE project. The course sought to: (1) strengthen civil society youth leaders in their leadership and youth work by acquiring tools and developing competencies in the fields of self-leadership, working with values, management of group dynamics, conflict resolution, motivation, communication, and virtual teamwork (2) strengthen the participants’ role as leaders, innovators, and shapers of best practices in their organisations (3) increase participants’ awareness of the reverberations and responsibilities connected to their own personal leadership (4) increase the quality of youth leadership within the YFU community and achieve a higher level of youth leader engagement in YFU (5) create opportunities for networking, sharing of best practices, and a space for connecting with other young European YFU youth workers (6) highlight and raise awareness of the importance of young people being empowered as leaders and changemakers The VALE Project set out to contribute to the achievement of several of the EU Youth Strategy objectives, namely the European Youth Goals. This objective was largely achieved. We equipped young people with crucial 21st-century skills – such as leadership, collaboration, and initiative-taking – through non-formal learning (Goal #8 Quality Learning). We ensured further opportunities for youth workers in YFU to successfully carry out their work to support other youth (Goal #11 Youth Organisations and European Programmes). Furthermore, The VALE made meaningful targeted contributions to the objectives of Key Action 1: Learning Mobility of Individuals, specifically Mobility of Youth Workers. By increasing participants’ value-driven leadership competencies – a crucial, transversal meta-skill aiding in managing teams, initiating and directing projects, and lifting other youth workers – the project fostered quality improvement in their capacity to support young people through their work in YFU and elsewhere.