By implementing this project, we want to achieve a step change in the way youth-serving NGOs design, deliver, and evaluate their initiatives. Too often, youth work produces outputs—trainings, workshops, exchanges—that are valuable but do not translate into long-term societal impact. Our aim is to raise the professional capacity of youth workers and NGO staff so that they can design projects that are not only creative and inclusive, but also sustainable, fundable, and anchored in measurable civic and environmental outcomes. From the perspective of youth work practice, the project is about equipping practitioners with the frameworks and tools that allow them to merge their pedagogical passion with strategic planning, enabling them to act as credible drivers of civic participation and environmental sustainability. The objectives reflect this ambition. First, we want to provide youth workers with the skills to design, manage, and evaluate projects that meet the quality expectations of funders while staying grounded in the lived realities of young people. This means learning to embed sustainability competences from GreenComp and civic competences from the Youthpass framework into every stage of project development, so that they become guiding principles rather than afterthoughts. Second, we want to create authentic spaces for collaboration that go beyond exchanging emails on draft proposals. By gathering youth workers, educators, and NGO professionals in an intensive residential setting in Bologna, we create the conditions for real dialogue, live testing of ideas, and joint authorship of projects that reflect genuine ownership and transnational perspectives. Third, we want to ensure that participants leave not only with co-created project concepts but also with a portfolio of practical methods and insights that they can directly transfer into their organisational routines, influencing cultures of practice so that impact-driven design becomes the norm. The link between these goals and the planned activities is direct. In the preparatory phase, participants will take part in an online meeting and access a shared digital resource hub to familiarise themselves with EU frameworks, project cycle management, and sustainability/civic competences. This ensures that the residential mobility starts from a common ground. During the three-day Partnership Building Activity in Bologna, participants will engage in non-formal methods such as Project Design Labs using design thinking, Stakeholder Mapping workshops, Budgeting Simulations, Peer Review Circles, and Networking Sessions. These sessions are designed to strengthen technical skills, deepen thematic understanding, and allow participants to co-develop at least eight project concepts aligned with EU youth priorities. In the follow-up phase, participants will run Local Labs in their organisations and communities—short, structured meetings where they introduce one tool or method learned in Bologna, ensuring immediate transfer into local practice. This will be reinforced by a post-mobility online follow-up and the continuation of exchanges in a digital collaboration space, so that results remain alive and transferable beyond the event itself. From the perspective of youth work practice, the achievement we are pursuing is a cultural and professional shift: moving from activity-focused delivery to impact-centred design. By equipping youth workers with practical competences, providing them with authentic collaborative environments, and ensuring structured follow-up through Local Labs and digital resources, the project will embed impact, sustainability, and civic participation into the DNA of youth work.