The Documentation and Cultural Center emerged in its current form and mode of operation from more than 45 years of successful civil rights work. Many members of our minority fought in post-war Germany for the recognition of their civil rights and the Nazi crimes committed against Sinti and Roma. This commitment was a major challenge for the young Federal Republic and ultimately contributed to consolidating democracy and constitutionality in Germany. From the beginning youth work was particularly important to our institution and we work with Erasmus+ youth programmes for more then a decade, making sure to support Roma and non-Roma young people to create inclusive events together. It is embedded in a wide network of self-organizations – most of Roma Youth – that organizes international meetings, seminars, trainings and youth exchanges in different European states regularly, i.e. together with ternYpe – International Roma Youth Network to work on issues of remembrance, Holocaust and human rights education, and advocates the recognition of the Roma Genocide. Erasmus+ program plays an important role in our work to combine local and national youth empowerment work with international exchanges, mobilities of young people and of youth workers and the development of long-term partnerships in order to increase the capacity of our youth activists, volunteers and youth workers. Our thematic interest is mainly to work on strengthening Roma youth voices and participation through youth empowerment, as well as our remembrance, human rights and anti-racism educational work. The project has been designed and implemented with the aim to empower young Roma to have a voice, to foster solidarity among young people on the international level and support them to become key agents of change! This is the first round of our Accreditation grant with which we aimed to put our youth work on a more sustainable basis. We engaged with many long-term partners for our activities and aimed at professionalizing the activities where we have profound knowledge already. The remembrance on 2 August, the European Holocaust Memorial Day for Sinti and Roma at the memorial in Auschwitz-Birkenau is a telling sign of the important progress in the recognition of the Roma Genocide. Since 2015, the European institutions raise awareness and take part in our remembrance events on 2 August as the Roma Holocaust Memorial Day. Nevertheless, awareness in most European countries remains extremely low. We aimed to continue to improve capacities among the young Roma and non-Roma in order to challenge stereotypes, antigypsyism and racism in Europe. Due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine we changed some of our plans. We highly appreciate the opportunities the Accreditation offers for this. After the invasion we were in touch with many partner organisations and individual activists who reported the dire situation of Roma as refugees and in Germany the Documentation Centre and the Central Council were also involved in many cases of antigypsyist action against Roma from Ukraine. Therefore we decided that the funding from Erasmus+ offers the best option to bring young activists and Roma organisations who work in the field together to create a network and increase the capacity of the individual people and organisations who often worked in personally unsustainable ways. Also, the way media reported and decision-makers reacted to the situation of Roma as refugees was in contrast to the reports from our network, which made it even more important to raise awareness for the voices of Roma organisations working on grassrootslevel. Our objectives for this grant have been in line with the objectives outlined in the accreditation application as those are the foundational for our youth work: Network-building: creating opportunities for organizations that create the space for young people to become active citizens through empowerment, mobilization, participation and self-organization. The Roma genocide and the roots of our European memory and values:Create possibilities for participants to learn about the Roma Genocide, the historical and political context (mechanisms and reasons) leading to it, as well as the consequences for today; Develop critical thinking and reflection in understanding and analyzing the past and the present Capacity-building: Increase the capacity of Roma and non-Roma youth workers and youth organizations in remembrance and human rights education in order to combat antigypsyism. We want to discuss the roles, responsibilities and opportunities of youth in addressing current challenges of racism, discrimination and antigypsyism for young Roma to become agents of change; We want to build motivation, capacity, and empowerment of young people and youth organizations to engage in local, national and international youth work on issues of remembrance, human rights and combating antigypsyism. Raising Roma youth voices: Strenghening young Roma and increase youth participation in policy-making processes that concern Roma youth has a strong empowering dimension, and the participants can become messengers and multipliers of participation in their communities. Inclusive youth work: We want to increase participation and inclusion of Roma youth in non-formal education and international youth work, in particular in Erasmus+ activities. By engaging young Roma with fewer opportunities we work towards more inclusive societies and equal participation of Roma youth locally and internationally.