The "Youth Workers Rescue!" project was designed with a particular and urgent goal: to equip seven countries' youth workers—Portugal, Armenia, Bulgaria, Moldova, Poland, Ukraine, and Germany—with training, skills, and methods to take an active role in response to humanitarian crises and promote civic involvement, solidarity, and integration in their communities. In the face of rising international crises—most significantly the human impact of war in Ukraine and other displacement crises—the project responded to a real need: to prepare young workers not only to react during crises but to model resilience and humanity for youth in increasingly uncertain times. We organized the project with the following specific objectives: -To train 28 youth workers through an 8-day capacity-building program in Pinhel, Portugal, on humanitarian response intervention approaches and non-formal education (NFE) techniques for civic involvement. The training aimed at improving their ability to design and implement local and international projects in emergency responses. -To foster a better understanding of the nature, causes, and implications of humanitarian crises, and help participants analyze the role of youth work in mitigating such challenges. Participants explored case studies, including past humanitarian interventions led by Hawk Stars and partners, through facilitated workshops and group discussion. -To develop applied skills in strategic planning, raising resources, and winning sponsorship in a way that enables youth workers to bring ideas to funded, sustainable projects. These are core skills for scaling up community-based efforts and creating a sustained response capacity in their communities. -To encourage the development of new Erasmus+ projects, where participants co-design five new project concepts during the mobility. These concepts revolve around issues such as youth participation in humanitarian activities, volunteering, intercultural cooperation, and digital civic participation. -To enhance the skills of participants to promote inclusion, tolerance, and active citizenship, especially in addressing marginalized young people, displaced populations, and those affected by social exclusion. For supporting youth workers' confidence and professional growth, as well as to make them leaders in their organizations, role models for others, and multipliers of EU values such as solidarity, human rights, and democratic participation. Each of these objectives is part of the priorities of the Erasmus+ Key Action 1, namely, the professional quality of youth workers, innovation in youth work practice, and the quality provision of the learning experience through non-formal learning. Moreover, the project was particularly interested in ensuring diversity and inclusion, at least one member per national team having limited opportunities or coming from deprived groups, according to the Erasmus+ Inclusion and Diversity Strategy. With such objectives, Youth Workers Rescue! did not only aim to transfer information but to build a robust, enduring network of young professionals that could respond to Europe's current and future humanitarian demands while having roots in active European citizenship, empathy, and belonging. Lastly, participants shared a range of reflections on their learning experience, such as: “I learned how to be more familiar with humanitarian response.” “I learned a lot about humanitarian response, youth work and project writing.” “I learned about humanitarian efforts, firefighting operations, and diverse personal experiences.”