From our experience working with young people in Poland, but also in other countries, we have noticed that many young people are striving to make changes in their communities, however, they often feel hopeless (which was made worse by the Covid-19 pandemic) and do not know where to start. We have done extensive research and decided to focus on four groups of people in our society that young people can show solidarity with, and through the writing of our policy proposals during the project as well as lectures on how to advocate for others as well as for the needs of youth, we wanted to equip young people in tools necessary to resolve issues they feel most strongly about. We recognized important challenges which must be addressed globally in which solidarity, together with the principle of subsidiarity is the only possible way of acting. It was encouraging to see that we are not alone in our convictions. For example, according to the statistics, 89% of EU citizens considered helping people in developing countries very or fairly important (Globalstat, Data Dossier on Solidarity in Europe, 10-12 May 2018, Florence). We identified the problem of the lack of solidarity on international, national, and community level in the area of assistance and integration of persons with disabilities, and special needs, persons in crisis of homelessness, persons in developing countries and refugees. When it comes to the developing countries, the alarming example is Congo, where, during the COVID-19 pandemic people didn’t have access to clean water and adequate sanitation infrastructure (CIVICUS, Solidarity in the time of Covid-19. Civil society responses to the pandemic. November 2020). The statistics for persons with disabilities are very concerning, especially for the time of COVID. Compared to persons without disabilities, persons with disabilities are more likely to have poor health: among 43 countries, 42 percent of persons with disabilities versus 6 percent of persons without disabilities perceive their health as poor (https://www.un.org/development/desa/disabilities/covid-19.html) Therefore, they are most likely to be affected by the healthcare crisis (See: “Disability-inclusive response to COVID-19 – Towards a better future for all” A response to the Secretary-General’s Policy Brief. A Statement 138 UN Member States and Observers). Pandemic has thrown up a number of challenges and led to setbacks for refugee protection. At the height of the crisis, 168 countries fully or partially closed their borders, with around 90 making no exception for those seeking asylum. Some have pushed asylum seekers, including children, back to their countries of origin (https://www.unhcr.org/news/latest/2020/10/5f7dfbc24/covid-19-crisis-underlines-need-refugee-solidarity-inclusion.html) Finally, there are an estimated 700,000 people living on the streets or in shelters on any given night in the EU and the UK (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/31/europes-homeless-hit-hard-by-coronavirus-response). Stay-at-home and social distancing orders must be very difficult for them to follow, and often they don’t receive basic services because volunteers are afraid of COVID-19 risk, and social workers are not provided with protective materials We also noticed a lack of knowledge among youth about methods for advocating for their needs. With the project ˝Different faces of solidarity˝ we will reach the following objectives: - To familiarize 27 participants from 6 countries with different mechanisms of the peace-building process and different approaches to them, through lectures presenting historic examples of solidarity and peer-to-peer learning movements. - To introduce 27 participants from 6 countries to methods of advocating for their needs and the EU role in it, through presentation and discussion on the topic of the EU policies and programs for youth, presentation of examples of effective advocacy initiatives from partner organisations and the workshop “Introduction to advocacy - How can youth advocate for their needs?”. - To produce Policy Proposals that include ideas of actions for each (4) of the following challenges: the integration of persons with disabilities and special needs, assistance for persons in the crisis of homelessness, cooperation and assistance for persons in developing countries, assistance and integration for refugees. All of the above is to be achieved through the activities of "Working on the Policy Proposal", meetings with experts and the following lectures: “Solidarity with persons with disabilities and special needs - what needs to be done?”. “Solidarity with persons in developing countries”, “Solidarity with refugees”, “Solidarity with persons in crisis of homelessness.”