The project Art for Remembrance aims to deliver a transformative youth exchange experience where young people aged 17–24 from Latvia, Italy, Germany, Lithuania, Estonia, and Poland engage with historical memory, cultural heritage, and artistic expression through intensive intercultural collaboration. From a youth work practice perspective, the core objective is to develop participants' intercultural competence as a practical skillset for navigating diversity, fostering European identity while respecting national distinctiveness, and equipping young people with tools for cross-cultural dialogue and collaboration in their everyday lives and future youth initiatives. A primary aim is to enable young people to actively explore how different European nations experience, remember, and artistically express historical memory, moving beyond passive learning to hands-on co-creation of artworks that synthesise diverse perspectives. Youth workers will facilitate this through structured non-formal methods like memory mapping, peer teaching of artistic traditions, and mixed-nationality team collaboration, resulting in a public exhibition where participants serve as co-curators and presenters. This practice builds perspective-taking, stereotype-challenging, and collaborative skills, strengthening youth workers' repertoires for using arts-based methods to address sensitive historical topics in inclusive group settings. The project seeks to enhance youth work practice by providing a tested model for embedding intercultural learning throughout all phases: pre-departure virtual meetings on partner histories, arrival ice-breakers with cultural-buddy pairs, daily mixed-group activities (comparative discussions, peer teaching), and exhibition-phase synthesis of learning into collaborative outputs. For practitioners, this demonstrates how to design exchanges that honour diverse historical contexts (e.g., Baltic Soviet occupation, German WWII responsibility, Polish resilience) while creating shared artistic responses to universal themes like remembrance and resilience. Another key objective is capacity building in international youth exchange management and arts-based education, while partners gain experience in recruitment, reinforced preparation (minimum 3–4 meetings), and post-exchange dissemination. Youth work practice benefits from the project's focus on tangible outcomes: enhanced individual competences (perspective-taking, dialogue skills, cross-cultural teamwork), deepened understanding of art's social role in memory work, and formal Youthpass recognition that makes learning visible and transferable. Ultimately, the project advances youth work by contributing to European dialogue on cultural identity and peace through intercultural understanding, embodying Erasmus+ values of inclusion, innovation, and youth empowerment. It provides practitioners with replicable methods for fostering meaningful friendships and networks across borders, ensuring young people's voices shape public conversations on remembrance.