The main reasons for AFS to obtain an accreditation in KA1 were to empower and include people from rural areas and to encourage our volunteers in their initiatives. With this grant, we have worked to achieve these objectives through 4 activities, and in each activity the focus was slightly different and the goals achieved in a different way. In activity nr. 1 "Collaboration in Action", we had an advocacy approach. It was a volunteer-led seminar, where youth workers engaged in work on a European level discussed the current youth strategies developed by the biggest authorities on education and youth at the Global level (UN, EU, CoE). The event was an opportunity for active youth workers to practice their skills in advocacy and motivating them to engage in policy-making processes on local, but also international level. This activity fulfilled both of our objectives, supporting the volunteers' initiative, as well as including organisations, such as "Rural Youth Europe", directly targeting the needs of youth from rural areas, as we aimed through our accreditation. In activity nr. 2 "Meet a Folk College", the aim was to activate youth from rural areas, meeting them where they are, in the rural Folk College Brenderup. We wanted to gather staff and volunteers from European partner organisations in order to present and learn from the philosophy of Danish "højskole" (we call it folk college in English). We believe that many values fostered in these schools, such as the sense of community, acceptance and space to explore are inspiring and worth sharing with youth organisations. The registered participants of the project were staff and volunteers from AFS Denmark, but the group included the local community as much as possible. Activity nr. 3 "Scandinavian Network Meeting" was a seminar for staff from three Scandinavian AFS organisations Denmark, Norway and Sweden, aiming at networking and achieving our goals on a larger scale and together. We had workshops focusing on including youth from Greenland (and indigenous peoples from Norway and Sweden), which ended up in a few new initiatives, among others for a cultural exchange of indigenous peoples. Finally, activity nr. 4 "NOBA - Nordic Baltic seminar" aimed at bringing the volunteers and staff from Nordic and Baltic countries together, in order to discuss the common challenges and sharing ideas about working with young people. The seminar was held outside Copenhagen to be able to attract staff and volunteers from the whole country. And as we know that more than 90% of our volunteers are motivated by the relationship factor, it was important for us that there were plenty of opportunities to interact and share experiences with volunteers from other countries. Overall, all our projects aimed at strengthening our volunteers and staff, giving them a network, new skills and inspiration to continue their work with youth and accomplish their initiatives.