This project entitled "More inclusion, More community" was promoted by the VerdeAgua association, whose main focus is to promote improvements in the quality of life of the most vulnerable populations and those at greatest social risk, namely children and adolescents and ethnic minorities. The association seeks to develop projects and dynamics in the psychosocial, educational and cultural areas of the city of Meda. The project partners were associations with a vast experience of work in this area in different countries, namely: Spain, Cyprus, Italy, Estonia and Greece. The world is currently dealing with a pandemic situation with serious personal, professional and social effects. The pandemic COVID-19 implied a public health emergency and accentuated the social inequalities of the most disadvantaged populations, including ethnic minorities and refugees, increasing the difficulties of access to goods and services, as well as causing a greater communicational and relational gap between people. Access to medicines and basic health care, access to basic necessities, and use of technology were inequalities that intensified with the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic. Alongside this, the challenges posed to our society in an increasingly multicultural world are enormous. The plurality of cultures and values generates social tensions and conflicts that have intensified in recent years. It is true that the numerous conflicts taking place in the world have their origin in problems caused by the way the State manages diversity within its borders. The social, cultural, and educational policies adopted by states towards different peoples reflect these tensions. Only through multiculturalism and pluriethnicity is democratic social integration possible. Education must be able to respond both to national integration and to the needs of local communities with their own culture. Only an education that tends toward a culture civically shared by all can be able to prevent differences from continuing to generate inequalities and conflicts. A new response is needed to the emerging conflicts, violence, and indiscipline that consequently arise from multicultural relations. Firmness and authority are needed to improve coexistence, but new eyes are also needed to return the gaze to those who had no other direction so that we can improve a little bit of each other (Torrego, 2006). (Juan Carlos Torrego - PhD in Education Sciences and director of several projects in the field of mediation) In this sense, and given the concerns and needs listed and the focus of our work, we consider that the development of a project on this theme was an added value not only for the promoters, but for all our collaborators, youth workers and community leaders through the joint construction of a manual of procedures for the integration and reception of minorities that was useful for the improvement of our practices and the potentiation of the network of local, national and international partners. According to UNHCR data, in 2018, Portugal welcomed the highest number of refugees, around 2136, having increased the number of refugees from 2015 to 2016 (70.8%), from 699 to 1194, having in the following years, 2017 and 2018, maintained a growth of +35.9% and 31.6%, respectively. The five nationalities numerically most expressive in 2019 were Angola Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea and Venezuela), representing, together, 47.3% of the total number of applications for international protection in the country, when in the general context of the EU28 these same nationalities represented no more than 9.2%. Portugal was the sixth EU28 country that relocated the most people (the country received 4.5% of the total relocations from Italy and Greece); already for the EU/Turkey 1x1 agreement, Portugal fulfilled 71% of its commitment by the end of 2017, and for the EU 50,000 resettlement mechanism, by the end of 2019, Portugal executed 40.5% of its commitment. (data from ASILO 2020) The Municipality of Guarda recognizes the need and validity of the work in the field of integration of minorities and refugees, having proposed to create the LAR project, "a second-line social inclusion initiative for refugees and migrants hosted by our country, based on a scalable model, in what is the country's contribution to one of the largest humanitarian crises on record" (http://www.larproject.com/pt#donate). It aims the monitoring and social integration of 4 families of refugees and migrants in a village in the district of Guarda, through agriculture and promotion of the rural environment. Therefore, we consider that the More inclusion, More community project was an added value in improving the skills of young people, especially the less advantaged, promoting active participation and citizenship, intercultural and interreligious dialogue, social inclusion and respect for human rights in conjunction with the sense of social responsibility. It was intended to integrate and develop an integrated and systematic project leveraging local and European synergies towards the construction of a common citizenship. In this sense, the project entitled More inclusion, More community sought to promote a space of experience and opportunity for knowledge and recognition of cultures, providing the development of personal and social skills for the exercise of a more integrative and inclusive citizenship of cultural diversity. The main objective of the exchange was to build a sense of community identity that sought to help respond to the needs currently accentuated through the construction of a manual of procedures for the integration of minorities in terms of food, access to housing, health care, education, culture, and intercultural and interreligious dialogue. It was intended that the participants involved in the training would achieve as outcomes: Improved learning performance; Greater self-empowerment and self-esteem; Better foreign language skills; Greater awareness of interculturality; Greater awareness of the European project and EU values;