In light of the multiple global challenges (climate change and environmental collapse, covid -19 pandemic etc.) currently threatening the prosperity and stability of the EU, the importance of young people to gathered and empowerment via a 7-day intensive learning experience focused on the aspects of EU Green Deal, is not only relevant but required. The purpose of DEEP-T is thus to provide informal grassroots education to young people on European Green Deal as an overarching framework to deal with climate change and other relevant topics and issues. Our approach uses the primary pedagogical tools of “ecological literacy” and “social ecology”. “Ecological literacy” means having core competencies in both social and natural sciences in order to understand the nuanced effects of climate change on society. “Social ecology” offers a theoretical framework to redesign the interaction between humans, environment, and the living world in order. Ecological literacy through the lenses of social ecology means understanding economic, political and ecological processes as interconnected. This kind of integrative, interdisciplinary knowledge helps youth cultivate the insights necessary to achieve ecological, economic and social sustainability in their future as EU citizens and professionals. This residential activity promoted the acquisition of theoretical and practical knowledge in the fields of sustainability, consensus decision making, permaculture, agroecology, zero waste living and art for social change. This youth exchange project opens a space where youth empower and educate each other. In doing so, it helps build a stronger EU citizenry and voices critical engagement with the Green New Deal and its objectives. Tools and concepts provided by various theoretical perspectives of social ecology, degrowth and others, helped participants understand the issues and needs of the European Green Deal and climate change. Drawing on lessons that youth are climate leaders, this project also incorporates approaches in peer-education. The seminar was divided into four phases: Working phase 1: discovering, working phase 2: engaging, working phase 3: transforming, working phase 4: evaluation envisioning. All the activities of the seminar were built around the framework of “discover, engage, transform” and each phase has aspects of all of them in it. Of course these phases are interlinked and overlap, so we decided to use this approach in order to have a clearer educational approach for both the organisers and the participants. By experiencing both hands-on and theoretical practices and approaches of regeneration applicable in both community and private spaces, we aimed for youth workers to engage with their potential to move livelihoods and economies beyond the sustainable, to connect with the meaning of collective action and to inspire them to exercise their power to act and to invest in projects that create regenerative culture. To achieve this, we proposed to train actors of youth education and the social workers who accompany them in their journey. We rely on the ability of these actors to have a multiplier effect in spreading and sharing regeneration knowledge, skills and attitudes they have acquired or reinforced during the training. Implementing this project allows our organisation and our partners to develop and establish a step by step learning by doing framework, starting from discovering a theory, engaging with it and then transforming the theory to create new practices. The experience of community living in a multicultural group supported the development of social and relational skills of the participants, helping them to take a step back on their behaviour and develop decisive intercultural, linguistic, inclusive and compassionate skills. Combined with meeting a diversity of people it enabled participants to acquire a different vision of alterity and to better address these issues with people they accompany. DEEP-T was an immersive experience where participants experimented with radical ideas and practices aimed to broaden their approaches and solutions to local communities’ and the planet’s health. Importantly, this training was focused not just on participants and-their-needs in a traditional economic sense the production, distribution and allocation of physical resources- but also with people’s inner needs, their relationships to each other and a basic fairness and equality. Moreover, the activity also responds to the need of participating organisations to reinforce a network of organisations that can collaborate also after the end of the project,raising their professional profile at a local and international level. This activity becomes a transformational experience where both participants and organisers can share and experiment innovative ideas in an international environment and where, via non-formal and informal education activities.