Own Your Skills aims to respond to a key challenge faced by many young people today: although they develop important competences through daily life, volunteering, and youth work, these skills often remain invisible and undervalued compared to formal qualifications. From a youth work perspective, this lack of recognition limits young people’s self-confidence, participation, and access to opportunities, particularly for those with fewer opportunities. The overall objective of the project is to strengthen youth work practice by demonstrating how non-formal learning can help young people recognise, value, and actively use their competences. Through an international Youth Exchange, participants will experience, reflect on, and articulate transversal skills such as teamwork, communication, problem-solving, adaptability, intercultural competence, and digital skills. Specifically, Own Your Skills aims to: - Increase young people’s awareness of their competences through experiential and non-formal learning methods. - Equip participants with youth-friendly recognition tools and practices that make learning outcomes visible and meaningful. - Support employability and active participation by linking competences to education, work, volunteering, and community life. - Promote inclusion and intercultural dialogue by bringing together young people from diverse backgrounds and ensuring equal participation and support. - Empower young people as active multipliers who share their learning outcomes and inspire peers in their local communities. From a youth work practice perspective, the project is innovative because it combines learning by doing, structured reflection, and competence recognition with strong youth participation in all phases of the project. Participants are not passive beneficiaries, but active contributors who co-create activities, reflect on their learning, and lead dissemination actions. The expected impact is twofold. For young people, Own Your Skills increases self-confidence, employability, and active citizenship. For youth work practice, it provides concrete methods and examples of how non-formal learning can make invisible competences visible and transferable. In this way, the project contributes to a more inclusive and competence-based youth sector, where young people can confidently say: “I own my skills.”