Our project was initiated by a consortium formed by BIID- LV, FC- PL, AUM- EE, FAR- CZ,Starry- BG, YC-RO,SCAMBI-IT, YOPA-HU, Xenia- AT, HYP- GR, IEV-BE. Nowadays one of the most popular methods is volunteering to fight against NEET. Nevertheless, there was a huge gap between service and learning within voluntary projects, wasn’t matter if we consider only local voluntary youth projects, transnational volunteering projects e.g. within European Solidarity Corps. Most of the organisations, who work with volunteers, mostly focused on the service part and only some low percentage went to the learning elements. Although, voluntary activities focused on personal learning processes of volunteers besides societal needs of the local communities. Young people in NEET needed to foster their self – esteem, they needed to know themselves much better, and their self – confidence has been enhanced in order to be able to act as full member of the societies which is the first step to apply for a job at least. So youth workers offered such type of voluntary activities for young people in NEET which helped them to make the first step. The main focus of the voluntary activities went to learning through service. Youth workers have been able to invent, use and adapt creative and innovative non – formal educational methods, tools and or techniques which provided opportunities for young people in NEET for competence development. As project partners, we have decided to get acquainted with the methodology of self – directed learning as non –formal educational tool for self –development of young people in NEET and adapt it into our local and transnational voluntary youth projects. Besides this, we shared and experienced other non – formal educational methods, tools and techniques what we usualy use in our local and transnational voluntary youth projects as good practices. So our project aimed at learning, sharing, experiencing and practicing creative and innovative non – formal educational methods, tools and techniques with special focus on self –directed learning within local and transnational voluntary youth projects in order to give a chance for young people in NEET to participate in a service where they can develop and improve their competences in more learner – centred and attractive ways. The objectives of the project was: - To explore and adapt the at least 10 best practices of voluntary youth work from the participated 11 countries from EU, Western Balkan and EECA countries.; - To share and explore 30 innovative youth work methods, tools and techniques regarding to self – directed learning within local and European voluntary work; - To be able to offer more attractive educational possibilities for young people in NEET as self – directed and social learning within local and transnational voluntary work in order to foster their competences with special focus on exploring their own strengths and passions and practicing their problem solving skills and taking challenges with a positive approach. - To be able to promote local and international voluntarism as tool for self – directed and social learning, empowerment, participation in society, self – awareness, initiative and entrepreneurship, employability for young people in NEET. - To invent 40 local and 33 transnational voluntary projects with special focus on self – directed and social learning of young people in NEET according to the proposals of Erasmus + programme and European Solidarity Corps. Our project fulfiled the objectives of EU Youth Strategy 2019-2027, especially the 8th Youth Goal “Quality learning for All” as our project promoteed active citizenship, inclusive society and employability through improving transferable skills of young people in NEET by motivating and involving them to local and transnational voluntary youth work activities. Our participants have been capabled to support young people in NEET as local and transnational volunteers to practice self-directed and social learning and through that becoming active citizens of the local and European communities, then getting the chance entering to labour market or continue their formal education. Through self-directed and social learning processes young people improved their interpersonal and intercultural skills as local and transnational volunteers with the professional support of partners. Our participants have been able to create and implement more personalised, participative, and cooperative learner-centred methods in every step of the non-formal education process of their voluntary activities by using the innovative and creative self-directed learning methods and its processes. Local and transnational volunteering fostered active civil participations of young people with fewer opportunities through community-based experiences as voluntary placements have been designed based on the societal needs of local communities and young people in NEET.