1) to deepen knowledge about and understanding of different models, contexts of youth center's establishment, and conditions in which they function, through research study visits and job shadowing mobilities, 2) to innovate youth centres - develop variations, amendments, own models suitable for needs, resources and conditions in our countries, 3) to develop advocacy tools for youth sector: a step-by-step manual for organisations and municipalities on the process of advocating for, developing, critically evaluating functioning of a youth centre, and a card game for youth workers and activists helping to collect arguments and resources and prepare to the role of an advocate, 4) to raise awareness about and deliver a tool to measure effectiveness of youth centres, strategic and long-standing outcomes of youth centres, 5) to mainstream youth centres, raise awareness of importance of youth-spaces in adolescence and early adulthood period, through a campaign directed to decision makers in the field of youth, building their confidence in youth centres as instruments of youth policies.
We applied for this project to: - stimulate the growth of the number and quality of youth centers, - develop useful tools to instruct on establishment of new youth centers, - learn more about the functioning models and innovate them, - develop "a hot topic", a good narrative around youth work and youth centers, - provide evidences of effectiveness of youth centers, - raise awareness on the role and significance of youth spaces in Poland, Italy, Portugal and Sweden. The needs the project answered to belonged to young people (need for youth spaces, autonomous, participatory, owned by youth) the sector of youth work (need for tools supporting the sector to advocate for, prove effectiveness and effectively run youth centers) and by decision makers (to gain evidences for effectiveness of such a policy instrument as youth centers, get proper indicators to successfully manage youth centers and care for their quality).