As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to reshape the digital landscape, youth workers across Europe must adapt to ensure young people engage with technology responsibly and inclusively. However, youth organizations face significant challenges in AI adoption, including ethical dilemmas, digital literacy gaps and resource constraints. Insights from studies such as Automating Youth Work: Youth Workers' Views on AI and Artificial Intelligence Competence Needs for Youth Workers highlight the urgent need to equip youth workers with both technical skills and ethical awareness to navigate AI responsibly. This Erasmus+ training course responds to these challenges by addressing country-specific needs and fostering a common European approach to AI in youth work. Findings from Artificial Intelligence Competence Needs for Youth Workers (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/381957690_Artificial_Intelligence_Competence_Needs_for_Youth_Workers) indicate that many youth workers lack formal AI training. They struggle with understanding AI functionalities, limitations and ethical implications, making it difficult to incorporate AI tools effectively in their work. This challenge is evident across participating countries: • Lithuania has advanced national digitalization strategies, but AI is not systematically integrated into youth work, creating a gap between policy ambitions and on-the-ground practice. • North Macedonia has emerging AI initiatives but lacks structured training for youth workers, leading to uncertainty in how to apply AI in non-formal education. • Romania faces disparities between urban and rural areas, where rural youth workers have limited access to AI-related education. A notable study Automating Youth Work: Youth Workers' Views on AI (https://tinyurl.com/3r6e5xjn) highlights concerns that AI could undermine core youth work values, such as social inclusion, empathy and critical thinking. Without ethical guidelines, AI adoption may lead to biased decision-making or reduced human interaction. These concerns are particularly relevant for: • Spain‘s AI policy development is advanced, but youth workers lack practical guidance on implementing ethical AI in their programs. • Bulgaria‘s AI literacy is the opposite - it remains low, raising risks of uncritical AI use without understanding bias or misinformation. • In Cyprus AI could serve as an inclusion tool for marginalized groups, but ethical training is necessary to ensure responsible implementation. Both studies emphasize that AI should enhance, not replace, human interaction in youth work. Youth workers must develop critical thinking skills to balance AI’s benefits with its potential risks, ensuring that technology supports, rather than dominates, youth engagement. This is a pressing concern in Slovakia, where AI tools are increasingly used in education, but youth workers need guidance on keeping human connection at the center of their work. While many youth workers recognize AI’s potential, they lack concrete methods for integrating it into their daily work. The Artificial Intelligence Competence Needs for Youth Workers study emphasizes the need for practical, hands-on training, which is currently missing in many European youth programs. This training will bridge the AI knowledge gap by equipping youth workers with practical skills, ethical awareness and critical thinking to integrate AI into their work responsibly. Participants will learn how to use AI tools effectively while maintaining a human-centered approach, ensuring that technology supports rather than replaces personal engagement. The program will provide hands-on methodologies applicable for youth work, addressing digital literacy disparities and guiding participants on ethical AI implementation to prevent bias, misinformation and dehumanization. Objectives of the project 1. Develop AI literacy among youth workers through hands-on training. 2. Raise awareness of ethical concerns in AI-driven youth work for 32 youth workers and their NGOs by the end of the project. 3. Provide strategies for integrating AI while maintaining human values for 32 youth workers and their NGOs by the end of the project.