The main aim of the project "Global Word = Global Issues" is to increase the quality of youth work by providing youth workers and educators actively working with young people an opportunity to increase their competencies to address global issues such as inequality between the global South and global North, climate change, global warming, migration, poverty. Moreover, the aim of the project is to raise the competencies of youth workers to open their activities to sensitive and challenging topics especially linked to today's world situation - war in Ukraine, protests in Georgia, and conflicts in the Middle East, raising right-wing political parties in the European Union and beyond. Overall, the project "Global Word = Global Issues" aims to: -increase competencies of youth workers to bring global issues to their work with young people through activities supporting critical thinking and exchanging of ideas and opinions; -raise competencies of youth workers to create a safe and supportive space enabling working on emotionally challenging topics such as wars, crises, and conflicts; -review the methods and tools being used by participating organisations to support their staff with a special focus on the methods of supervision, well-being and mental health, preventing the burnout of youth workers and their leaving the youth sector; -assist with creating activity plans tackling the global issues for participating organisations; -raise awareness of a wider audience (youth workers, the representatives of educational institutions not directly involved in the project activities) on global issues through a series of video interviews; -increase interest of youth workers from the local communities of participating organisations in addressing local topics through local dissemination activities in interactive workshops for a minimum of 15 youth workers per community.