We wanted to carry out this Professional Development Activity (PDA) to improve 30 youth workers’ practical skills in the design, management, and funding of Erasmus+ projects, from shaping the idea to identifying the right Erasmus+ Youth Exchange or PDA and designing a good project that responds to the youth workers & or youth's needs they work with. We believed that this project fosters European integration and excellence in non-formal empowerment education by and for participants and those interested in developing successful Erasmus+ projects. Therefore, this PDA was dedicated to youth workers and NGO members who want to develop their Erasmus+ project writing competencies. This project was a follow-up to the previous one, as we explored how to complete a personalised YouthPass based on each youth worker's non-formal learning experience. This PDA, "Erasmus It Part 2," ran from 5 to 12 September 2024, at the Faith Mission, Bandon, Co. Cork, and it brought together 30 youth workers, including those with fewer opportunities, "those who cannot travel due to travel or residency restrictions, as some are of migrant origin and refugees.". This PDA was in line with active participation in the network of Erasmus+ organisations (Erasmus+ 2021-2027 programme objectives). It was also in line with Erasmus+ 2021-2027: Inclusion and Diversity Priority, as it envisaged reaching out to youth workers, including those with fewer opportunities (i.e., refugees, asylum seekers, and undocumented youth workers who cannot travel due to their residential status in the country and newly arrived, either directly or indirectly through youth workers working with these groups), and the objectives of the EU Youth Strategy 2019-2027: the objectives of youth NGOs to network. Specific PDA objectives: • To improve participants’ attitudes towards writing Erasmus+ 2021–2027 projects so they will be empowered to feel more confident in their skills. • To equip participants with Erasmus+ 2021-2027 project writing competencies that will enable them to create S.M.A.R.T. aims, timetables, evaluation, a management plan, and dissemination/follow-up activities for their future projects. • To develop participant skills on how to assess the youth they work with's needs, how to understand the needs of the community, and how to respond to these needs with the help of Erasmus+ 2021–2027 projects. • To raise awareness of Erasmus+ Quality Standards for mobility projects among participants. • To improve youth workers’ knowledge of Youth PASS (YP), so they will be empowered to feel more confident in reflecting on each of the 8 YP competencies. Our Professional Development Activities (PDA) in 2023, "Erasmus It! Part 1: 2022-3-IE01-KA153-YOU-000093114," were a success, receiving a score of 78% in the final report. Its success brought us five new partners, some of whom wanted to learn how to develop a non-formal training course based on the needs of their youthworkers, while others benefitted from our partnership dissemination strategies and truly wanted their youthworkers to learn more about writing, implementing, and generating Erasmus+ ideas based on the needs of the youths they work with. As a result, we discussed over email and Zoom to come up with or sharpen the previous idea of this PDA, "Erasmus It! Part 1." Since the end of Erasmus+ It! PDA in 2023, we have collaborated with several EU youth workers, young mentors, youth teachers, and youth coaches from over six EU neighbouring countries (Georgia, Turkey, Italy, Greece, Morocco, and Ireland) to create this Erasmus+ It! Part 2. The overall goal of Erasmus+ 2021-2027 is to support personal, educational, and professional development in the fields of education, training, and youth work throughout Europe. However, though most EU youth workers were aware of Erasmus+ opportunities, not all knew how to apply for one (write a funding Erasmus+ application form), implement one, coordinate one, manage one, and network with EU partners. Additionally, feedback from most of the Erasmus+ PDA projects we hosted or attended in the past 6 years showed that participants often asked us how they would like to know how to write a successful Erasmus+ project to address issues that can benefit the young people they work with or to equip themselves with the youth work skills needed to work effectively at the EU level. We then carried out virtual survey questionnaires on www.surveymonkey.com via email link and Zoom calls interviews with 121 EU youth workers, including our former Erasmus+ PDA participants, ESC volunteer youth workers, trainers, youth mentors, and youth leaders, post-COVID-19 lockdowns and travel restrictions for 11 months. The findings showed that 91.4% of them wanted to learn how to apply an Erasmus+ project but did not know how because they did not feel confident, and 97.6% of them wanted to take part in a PDA that uses non-formal education methodologies to allow them to learn from each other at a slow pace.