What we wanted to achieve through this project was to create a space for 25 young people from 5 partner organizations (Portugal, Romania, Turkey, Italy and Spain) to participate in an non-formal learning activity in Lugo, Spain for 6 days, from 22nd to 27th of July 2025 in order to enhance awareness of mental health issues affecting the young generation and break the stigma on mental health. By the partnership we had, we wanted the partner organizations to consolidate their capacity and to build an inclusion strategy to support young people facing mental health issues. The project was initiated in response to the needs identified among the youth, including those involved in writing the application, those who had personally experienced symptoms of anxiety, depression, and low self-esteem during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. Our objectives were: O1. Empowering youth and Reducing Stigma: To empower 25 participants to share experiences and develop coping skills, attitudes, and behaviors for effectively dealing with life's challenges while breaking the stigma surrounding mental health This objective focused on improving individual emotional management (e.g., through tools like the emotion wheel), critical thinking, and resilience. O2. Enhancing Organizational Capacity for Mental Health Support and Inclusion: To enhance the capacity of partner organizations to provide mental health support for young people, with a focus on those from disadvantaged backgrounds who are disproportionately affected by the pandemic. This included providing dedicated support to 10 young people with fewer opportunities O3. Strengthening Partner Capacity for E+ and Community Engagement: To strengthen the capacity of the five partners to effectively support young people within their organization/community, particularly those with fewer opportunities, to actively engage in Erasmus+ (E+) projects and community-based initiatives. This objective intended long-term benefits for the organizations, making sure that they could sustain quality inclusion projects. The issues that all the partner organizations, based on background research, found, were: 1. Lack of resources and knowledge: many participants lacked the necessary resources and coping skills to manage difficult situations, cope with internal and external stimuli, and navigate the social stigma attached to mental health problems. Young people expressed clear needs for learning about mental health, fears, and anxieties, and finding a safe space for sharing 2. High prevalence of different kind of mental illness: depression is the fourth leading cause of illness and disability among young people aged 15–19, and suicide is the fourth leading cause of death among adolescents worldwide. Data indicated significant prevalence rates of anxiety and depressive disorders in partner countries (e.g., anxiety/depression affecting 10–20% of Spanish youth, and Portugal reporting the highest share of chronic depression in the EU at 12.2%). 3. Organizational capacity: the project aimed to give the partner associations a chance to develop effective long-term strategies to support youth facing mental health issues, particularly those from the most vulnerable groups and make a strategy of inclusion. The project used non-formal methods such as art therapy, mindfulness practices, experiential learning (e.g., walking the Camino Pilgrimage Route), and group discussions. It addressed topics like: mental health, inclusion, wellbeing, connection with nature, healing art methods, and green practices. The project aimed for a lasting impact, anticipating that participants would continue using learned tools (like the emotion wheel), establish a virtual support community, and act as ambassadors by disseminating the project results in their local communities.