Context/background of project: The arts and cultural sector now amounts to around 4% of European GBP, remaining even in financially challenging times a growth sector. Across Europe and beyond the arts and cultural industries make valuable and significant contributions to the social and economic wellbeing of society as a whole. Through developing the skills and competences of our EVS project participant’s in arts engagement; practical project delivery; cultural sector enterprise initiatives; professional networking and post conflict development we build their capacities and capabilities to access employment within the arts and cultural sector and act as youth leaders and multipliers. The objectives: To provide quality international mobility opportunities for young people from challenging backgrounds; To enable young people to understand enterprise initiative within the cultural industries; To gain new competences and experiences of cultural sector business development; To deepen knowledge, skills and attitude in order to better organize international arts projects; To capacity build the participants through practical workshops, networking, partnership building activities; To provide insight into employment development within the cultural sector; To explore models of arts development that act as key tools and drivers for youth employment and wider community development. Number and profile of participants: 8 young people in total from backgrounds of less opportunity. Description of activities: Preparation meetings in our partners national context. Implementation: 12 months of capacity building workshops, presentations, volunteering in community arts; training sessions, networking opportunities, evaluations and digital capture. Follow up: Through our project we will see the development of a strategic framework for sustainable cooperation, which will include: Network development brouhaha coordinates a global network of arts and cultural organizations with the aim to develop sustainable cooperation; Building Capacity and Capability: An essential part of this project is to build our partner organization, through the sharing of skills, knowledge and experience, ensuring future international work. This area of activity will hopefully have a measured impact on the sustainability of our EVS partnership.; Methodology to be used in carrying out the project: Non-formal working methods for this project will include: Discussions; Peer group learning; Informal training sessions; Practical skills sessions; Theoretical seminars; Group meetings; Evaluations; Networking opportunities; Digital and multimedia training and Inter cultural activities. A short description of the results and impact envisaged: Through this project our group of young volunteers will have: Developed a range of professional skills and competencies; Developed new projects within Erasmus+; Gained confidence in their abilities to produce new inter cultural projects; Developed their professional skills in post conflict development. Potential longer term benefits for this project will be: Develop the capacity of our partner to collaborate in future initiatives; For the volunteers to develop micro enterprises within their own local/national context; Deepening knowledge, skills and attitude in order to better organize international projects; Provide insight into international best practice in relation to social development within the cultural sector; Explore models of arts development that act as key tools and drivers for youth employment and wider community development; For the participants to further create and develop the possibility for new international mobility experiences that impact on their professional development and employability.