The main reason why our partners and us decided to develop the idea behind this project is the need, jointly recognized by all of us, to provide youth workers (our staff members, active members and collaborators) with innovative methods based on experiential learning to be used to fight increasing social distancing, division and lack of awareness and knowledge about relevant issues in society between young people. The issues and needs that we are addressing through this project are: the need for youth workers to increase their capacities in fostering involvement of young people in understanding the complexity and human, social, economical interconnectedness of the issues affecting communities they live; the need for young people to become more aware of diversity surrounding them; the issue (preexisting but even more enhanced by the current pandemic of covid-19) of social distancing on the basis of ethnicity, material status, legal status and many other elements of identity that enforce segregation with its negative effects on the people and communities affected; the high potential but insufficient role of youth organizations and organizations working with youth in acting as a platform for interaction, mutual learning and understanding between young people from different groups as well as between young people and other groups in society. The concept developed by this project is to train youth workers to become able to involve young people as creators, guides and developers of educational walking tours which aim to explore different realities of a place and to tell alternative stories about it, having other young people as the main target group. This international training course is aimed at enabling youth workers to train their peers, colleagues and young people in their cities/towns to become volunteer guides for educational walking tours which aim to explore different realities of a place and to tell alternative stories about it. Specific objectives are: Support the involved organizations in creating educational walking tours that can introduce resident and visitors to relevant places and issues through first-hand contact and experience, in order to increase their knowledge and understanding of a certain places’ history, culture and current issues; train participants in becoming multipliers (training others in their communities and organizations) of educational walking tours methodology; create at least one itinerary of an educational walking route per partner organization. Beside ethnic divisions, another aspect we are aiming at exploring are urban phenomena whose relevance is increasing in all the involved cities: homelessness, forced evictions, gentrification, excessive construction and urbanization in spite of the environment, so that young people can get (an be involved in researching) a bigger picture of what is happening just a few blocks away from their homes and local media/mainstream narration do not cover enough. Finally, another aspect we want to give voice to with this project is the promotion of bottom-up, resilient practices of active citizenship and participation taking place in the involved cities: Permaculture gardens and urban gardens, solidarity initiatives, platforms supporting human rights or strengthening community ties, stories of individuals making the difference. Beside exploring the present, one important element of this project is the awareness of the past. Due to the recent history of many of the involved countries (Balkan wars are the most emblematic example), nowadays young people (especially those born in the early 2000’s) do not have the opportunity to learn about recent history, which is mainly absent from school books, a taboo for many families, manipulated by the governmental media. One of the many roles of youth workers and organizations in such contexts is to encourage young people to search for alternative interpretations from mainstream narrations as well as create their own opinion on the basis of information available to them and what they can actually research, learn,discover and find out.