DARE training (Decolonial Approaches through Reflexivity & Exchange) aims to equip youth workers from across Europe with the knowledge, awareness, and practical tools to recognise and dismantle colonial legacies, whiteness, and systemic inequalities in their daily practice. From a youth work perspective, our goal is to provide a structured space where participants can critically examine how privilege, eurocentrism, and structural racism influence youth work organisations, decision-making structures, and international cooperation. By combining analytical tools with creative and participatory methods, youth workers will be supported to identify patterns of exclusion in their own contexts and design concrete strategies for more inclusive, anti-oppressive practice. Our General Objective is: To strengthen youth workers’ capacity to critically recognise and dismantle colonial legacies, whiteness, and systemic inequalities in order to foster more inclusive, participatory, and anti-oppressive youth work practices across Europe. Moreover, the project pursues the following specific objectives: SO1. Develop critical awareness among youth workers of how colonial legacies, whiteness, and systemic inequalities continue to shape youth work and international cooperation. SO2. Provide youth workers analytical tools such as critical whiteness, intersectionality, and power mapping, enabling them to identify and challenge exclusionary patterns within their organisations and contexts. SO3. Encourage intercultural dialogue and solidarity by bringing together youth workers from Belgium, Greece, Spain, and Italy (three countries where colonial legacies and migration dynamics strongly influence youth realities) to exchange perspectives, practices, and strategies. SO4. Promote anti-oppressive and participatory methodologies (storytelling, artistic reflection, collaborative methods) as accessible tools for engaging diverse young people and addressing systemic inequalities. SO5. Co-create a practical Toolkit that consolidates reflections, exercises, and strategies into a resource that strengthens the long-term capacity of youth workers and organisations to implement inclusive, decolonial practices. SO6. Support competence development and recognition by integrating Youthpass, journaling, and peer reflection throughout the project, enabling participants to articulate and apply their learning in personal, organisational, and European contexts. Furthermore, DARE seeks to make a concrete contribution to the professionalisation of youth work by embedding decolonial and anti-oppressive perspectives into practice. Youth workers will finish the project not only with a critical awareness but with tangible tools, creative methods, and action ideas to transform their organisations and better support young people. In this way, DARE directly advances the EU’s Inclusion and Diversity Strategy, the European Youth Goals, specifically Goal 3 (Inclusive Societies) and Goal 4 (Information & Constructive Dialogue). As well as the EU Anti-Racism Action Plan (2020–2025), ensuring that youth work is better equipped to address systemic inequalities across Europe.