Humour is a language every young person understands. It crosses borders and generations, offering a natural way to connect, reduce barriers, and stimulate creativity. Yet in youth work it is often underestimated, limited to energisers or “fun breaks” rather than recognised as a method for learning, resilience, and inclusion. Used consciously, humour can build trust, create safe spaces for participation, and allow sensitive topics to be explored with lightness rather than fear. For youth workers, this is crucial. They face the challenge of engaging diverse groups, addressing discrimination, or supporting wellbeing. Humour can act as a bridge in these situations: it energises groups, builds common ground in intercultural contexts, and reduces stress for facilitators themselves. It is therefore not only entertainment, but a professional competence that increases the impact of youth work. Despite this potential, humour is rarely used strategically. Professionals often hesitate, uncertain about linking it to educational goals, fearing cultural misunderstandings, or lacking structured resources. Known methods, as like improvisation, clowning, meme-making, remain under-documented, leaving youth workers to improvise rather than apply humour intentionally. The risks of exclusion, trivialisation, and cultural clashes further discourage them, and cooperation among organisations on this topic is still weak. From this context emerge clear needs: safe spaces to explore humour’s potential and risks; opportunities to practise inclusive humour and transform exclusive humour into empowering practices; and access to innovative tools, from laughter yoga to digital humour campaigns, that reflect youth culture. Organisations also need ready-to-use resources and stronger European networks to exchange experiences and embed innovation. This project addresses these needs by gathering 28 youth workers from 7 countries for a 7-day training in Sicily dedicated to humour in youth work. Participants will test at least 10 innovative methods, co-create 5 new workshops, and document them in a Humour in Youth Work Toolkit. Each partner organisation will then organise 2 follow-up events, while the network of 28 youth workers will continue cooperation, ensuring humour becomes a recognised tool for participation, wellbeing, and inclusion across Europe. Therefore, the objectives are: -To support 28 youth workers in developing the ability to apply humour as a tool for inclusion, participation, wellbeing, and resilience, with specific focus on identifying risks and transforming exclusive humour into empowering practices. -To enable participants to test at least 10 methods (e.g. improvisation, storytelling, clowning, laughter yoga, meme-making, digital campaigns) and co-create at least 5 new workshops, ensuring concrete, transferable outcomes for their daily work. -To co-develop a Humour in Youth Work Toolkit, consolidating tested methods, designed workshops, and resilience kits into a practical guide for youth workers across Europe. Each organisation will organise at least 2 follow-up events in their local context, ensuring dissemination and further use of results. -To establish a network of 28 youth workers and 7 organisations committed to exchanging innovative practices on humour-based education.