We developed the Soil & Soul project out of 2 main needs that we recognised - the need for social inclusion in our societies and fostering the growth of inclusive local communities. The core of our methodology was our practices for facilitating intercultural exchange and inviting dialogue through food-related practices that bypass resistance and social fears. We connected with other NGOs that share similar ideas and methods and shaped this project as a field of exchange of good practices and learning. We crafted it based on our EnvironMental approach to learning that brings together the Systemic approach (Hellinger, J.J. Stam, Siets Bekker), the community education ways of engaging groups (Freire, Dewey), and the Participatory Action Research method (Freire). On those three pillars, we build a system of practices and exchange, taking into consideration the learning needs of our participants. We focused on food-related practices for community building and social inclusion growth, because food is a universal language, and we used food systems as metaphors for the bigger systems in our society. We all eat, and our food is not only for nourishment, it is a complex language of meanings, of belonging structures, rites of passage, traditions, emotional connections, sense of safety, etc. Our partners were organisations that also use food-related practices, such as food festivals for bridging local community gaps (Italy), social kitchens (Bulgaria), shared community gardens (Bulgaria, Italy), cultural exchanges through food (Portugal), educational gardens (Romania), and others. We also explored learning forms that can be used both in person (games, exercise, exchanges) and in an online setting (apps, recorded visualisations, etc.) We met all our initial objectives, which were: 1) Social inclusion growth in our local communities. We planned to achieve that by bringing our methodology to the local youth and engaging them in co-creating food-related community events. Planned output: 8 local community events in the SDO. We did 10 local events and reached both young people and youth workers through local actions, and 2 online webinars. 2) Improving the quality of youth work in Europe. We planned to achieve that by implementing a PDA, where 38 educators and 2 facilitators will improve their skills and knowledge, expand their networks, and practice working with the methodology mentioned. 38 YouthPasses were issued to the participants in the PDA. 3) Bringing innovation to the fields of youth work, education, and training by offering a unique methodology of working with young people with fewer opportunities. Output: an educational Zine that will be created by the participants during the PDA and shared with youth workers around Europe through Salto-Youth, websites, and social media. This was achieved, and our zine reached 400+ educators around Europe. 4) Promoting the European values and the Erasmus+ program by providing visibility for our activities and materials, positioning the logo of the Erasmus+ in all our publications, and sharing at each stage of the project about its results and impact. Planned output: 2 Webinars, 8+ Social media publications mentioning the program, 3000+ accounts reached. All of that was not just covered, but also we reached way more people. 5) Promoting active citizenship in our local communities. We said we will do that by engaging immediately young people with fewer opportunities in planning, organizing, and implementing the SDO events. In that way, each youth worker would be able to actively work with their target group. The young people would learn organizational skills, entrepreneurial skills, and how to reach out to the members of their local communities. This was achieved by most of our partners directly, and some of them indirectly. 6) Supporting the growth of healthy local communities and building capacity in our organizations, providing more opportunities for growth and development to our members, staff, and volunteers. We imagined that the project would strengthen the connection and improve the cooperation between our organizations, contributing to creating new synergies and partnerships. This was achieved, and we met so many new partners and collected resources we didn’t even imagine we would have access to. More about it - you can read below.