The YMCA Youth Unify Camp 2025 was implemented to empower, engage, and connect young YMCA volunteers and young leaders from across Europe through a quality learning mobility grounded in non-formal education and European youth work values. Our project was implemented with full continuity to the needs analysis and objectives defined in the project application. The project was designed specifically for young YMCA volunteers and emerging youth leaders who are already actively involved in youth work and who show a clear need for further leadership development, empowerment, intercultural exchange, and practical tools for contemporary youth work. The primary objective of the project was leadership development. The camp aimed to build the leadership capacities of young YMCA volunteers and enable them to take on more significant roles within their local communities and organisations. To help them to get new motivation to volunteer and act. This objective responded directly to the need identified in the application to strengthen young leaders’ confidence, responsibility, and ability to initiate and lead youth activities. The project focused on practical leadership skills and learning through experience rather than theoretical input. Closely connected to this was the objective of youth empowerment. In line with the application, the camp was organised according to the principle “by youth, for youth.” Young people were actively involved in shaping, facilitating, and evaluating the programme, which allowed them to take ownership of their learning process. This hands-on approach supported motivation, self-responsibility, and a stronger sense of agency among participants. Another key objective was intercultural collaboration. By bringing together participants from diverse cultural and social backgrounds from eight European countries, the project created an intentional intercultural learning environment. The objective was to enhance understanding of different perspectives, encourage dialogue, and foster a shared sense of purpose and belonging within the European YMCA movement. We are happy that the project successfuly created a safe space for dialogue, exchange and shared learning. This contributed to a stronger sense of European identity and belonging, while respecting diversity and promoting inclusion and equality. The project also aimed to build essential soft skills and sustainable networks. The programme focused on developing communication skills, teamwork, problem-solving abilities, and intercultural competence. In addition, space was intentionally created for sharing best practices between organisations and participants, contributing to the creation of strong personal and professional networks across Europe. Very powerful was also new friendships development, which will also help for all future partnerships and new international projects and knowledge sharing. Addressing contemporary issues in youth work was another clearly defined objective. The camp provided practical learning opportunities related to mental health, sustainability, and digital literacy. These themes were integrated into the programme in a way that connected them directly to participants’ real youth work practice. These topics were not treated as abstract concepts but were integrated into the daily life of the camp through workshops, reflection sessions, and informal learning moments. Finally, the project aimed to ensure multiplication of impact. Participants were encouraged to act as multipliers by transferring the knowledge, skills, and methods gained during the camp to their local communities and YMCA organisations, ensuring impact beyond the duration of the mobility. Inclusion and diversity formed a core objective of the project. The project was opened to all young people from very different cultural, social, economic, faith/non-faith background and brought all of them together. Also young people with fewer opportunities were actively involved, and the programme was designed to be accessible, supportive, and adaptable. We are happy that together we created an unique safe space, where met groups of people, who never met before and were able to talk together and understand each other beter. The project promoted shared European values such as human dignity, freedom, democracy, equality, solidarity, and helped to decrease barriers for understanding between different groups of people from different backgrounds.