The Sustainability Empowerment Community of Practice aims to strengthen the quality, relevance, and impact of youth work practice in the field of sustainability and climate action. The project does not focus on raising awareness alone, but on equipping youth workers with the competences, methods, and confidence needed to translate complex sustainability challenges into meaningful, engaging, and action-oriented learning processes for young people. From a youth work perspective, the project responds to a growing gap between young people’s high awareness of environmental challenges and their limited opportunities to engage constructively with these issues. Many youth workers report difficulties in facilitating sustainability topics due to their complexity, emotional weight (e.g. climate anxiety), and the prevalence of misinformation. The project addresses this gap by strengthening youth workers’ pedagogical, facilitation, and methodological capacities, enabling them to guide young people from concern to informed action. At its core, the project seeks to achieve the following objectives: 1. Strengthen youth workers’ competences in sustainability education The project aims to enhance youth workers’ ability to address sustainability topics such as climate change, greenwashing, circular economy, biodiversity, and social justice through non-formal education. By experiencing and analysing interactive methods such as sustainability board games, simulation exercises, debates, and peer-led Toolfair sessions, youth workers develop practical tools they can directly apply in their own educational settings. 2. Improve facilitation quality for complex and sensitive topics Youth workers develop facilitation skills needed to handle controversial issues, emotional responses, and diverse perspectives. The project supports youth workers in moderating discussions on climate misinformation, ethical consumption, and environmental responsibility, while fostering safe spaces for dialogue, reflection, and critical thinking. 3. Integrate wellbeing and resilience into youth work practice The project promotes a holistic youth work approach by linking sustainability education with wellbeing. Youth workers explore methods to address climate anxiety and emotional overload through reflection, nature connection, and supportive group processes. This enables them to integrate emotional resilience and mental wellbeing into sustainability-related youth work activities. 4. Strengthen peer learning and professional exchange among youth workers By bringing together youth workers from different European contexts, the project creates a space for peer-to-peer learning, exchange of good practices, and mutual support. The Toolfair format and community of practice encourage youth workers to share tested methods, adapt ideas across contexts, and build long-term professional relationships. 5. Increase youth workers’ capacity for follow-up and local impact Youth workers strengthen their ability to design, implement, and evaluate follow-up activities through structured Action Plans. These plans support the transfer of learning outcomes into concrete local actions, such as workshops, board game sessions, or training formats, ensuring that youth work impact extends beyond the mobility. 6. Contribute to the development of quality youth work in Europe At organisational level, the project contributes to higher-quality youth work by embedding innovative, participatory, and reusable educational tools into regular practice. By aligning with Erasmus+ Youth Quality Standards and the European Youth Strategy, the project supports youth work that is learner-centred, inclusive, reflective, and impact-oriented. Overall, the project aims to position sustainability as a core competence area within youth work, demonstrating how experiential, peer-driven, and reflective methods enable youth workers to support young people in navigating environmental challenges with agency, resilience, and responsibility.