"Youth Connect 2021” was a 3-day (5-day including travel) training course. It was dedicated to youth workers involved in the communications and diversity and inclusion work areas of their youth organisations. The project aimed at equipping youth workers with the necessary knowledge and skills to better reach out to young people underrepresented in their organisations. Through integrating a more inclusive peer-to-peer communication approach (through a youth spokesperson programme) and wise use of the latest digital tools, the partners aimed at better reaching out to marginalised young people and offering them quality learning and empowerment opportunities. The training participants will also learn about the most up-to-date trends in social and mass media to ensure that they keep up with the channels young people are using. As an overall outcome of the project, participants will gain valuable new skills through non-formal learning (seminars, workshops, presentations, panel discussions), intercultural exchange, group work, mutual learning and exchange of experiences, hands-on learning, informal learning (during simulation exercises and get-to-know each other activities). Through the young spokesperson program, we expected participants to gain and/or improve their knowledge and skills in terms of public relations, media campaigns, using the principles of inclusive communication, and youth-centered communication. The participants would master their skills as professional youth workers, being aware of the impact their work can have on society. The project was built around youth worker mobility which would take the form of training days aimed at youth workers active in partner youth organisations. 1. Youth workers from disadvantaged backgrounds were particularly targeted. This event aimed to achieve the following objectives: 2. Help to increase the outreach of youth organisations to different socially excluded youth groups by delivering a more targeted message through the young people themselves and the benefit of peer to peer communication. As a result, the project aimed at allowing more young people from diverse backgrounds to engage themselves into youth organisations and access non-formal education learning opportunities. Provide the necessary skills and competences to youth workers to ensure the dissemination of the concept of young spokesperson and youth ambassadors. As a result, we expected them to put in place follow-up training opportunities for 300 young people from fewer opportunities on how to be a young spokesperson and be able to raise their voice to address their needs. 3. Increase the skills and capacities of youth workers in using new digital tools and social media to reach out to new target groups of young people or maintain young people engaged. The project allowed youth workers to share the best practices and experiences acquired in their work and especially looked at how the COVID-19 crisis impacted our ways of reaching out to young people. 4. Set the basis of an international network of trained youth workers from diverse European countries. As a result, the youth workers will continue to receive support and motivation from their pairs. Follow-up activities under the frame of the Erasmus+ programme . The project partners are all independent non-formal education providers using the Scout methodology as a youth work tool to empower young people as active citizens. They share a common challenge of communication and image issues preventing them from reaching out to more diverse young people. Depending on the national context, scouting is wrongly associated with various outdated stereotypes ranging from religious to conservative characteristics. This is a deterring factor for young people considering joining these youth organisations. Hence, it becomes more and more crucial to raise awareness among these groups about educational methods in youth work as well as about the importance and benefits of non-formal and informal learning. Young people with fewer opportunities, coming from minority backgrounds, rural areas or different genders are even more challenging to reach. This is because they feel excluded or are not attracted to the partner’s youth work practices. Therefore, we have noted that effective outreach strategies are needed to motivate those youth groups to join a youth organisation beyond the scope of the partners' organisations themselves. Moreover, in this time of post COVID-19 crisis, new ways of communication and maintaining online contacts have proven crucial for young people. While all project partners have moved their activities online and in the face of more traditional capacity building activities being limited, it would therefore be even more pertinent to further integrate our common learning outcomes and further needs into our strategy.