The DAME (Disability, Arts, Music and intercultural Education) Project originated from the previous training course “Sustainable Volunteering: Local Communities Development” as organisations together recognised the need for future activities to help address the needs of young people, those with fewer opportunities and their support workers (youth workers, carers, community workers) to help them gain new skills and understand the wider arena of disability awarenes. This project worked to address the issues of disability awareness, rural and urban development and improving access for those most disadvantaged through intercultural discourse, arts, music and intercultural communication. DAME created possibilities for the participants within our project to develop new skills, challenge themselves and their conceptions and give them the capabilities to create short-term local initiatives within their own locality. The overall objective of this initiative was defined as developing new skills and competences for youth workers focusing on those with fewer opportunities and promoting disability awareness and challenging stereotypes. Furthermore the project had the following objectives for youth NGOs and their members involved in the project: • to promote equality and solidarity amongst different cultures of stakeholders from EU and non-EU countries regarding the themes of disadvantaged youth and access for disadvantaged, • To develop common future projects on the regional and international levels and build strategic partnerships, • To develop entrepreneurship potential in non-profit participation for those most disadvantaged, especially on a local level, • to promote non-formal education among people of various age in the field of volunteering as a key tool for developing interpersonal, social and civic competence, The project also contributes to developing the quality of support systems for disadvantaged youth and their activities and also the capabilities of civil society organisations to create successful, sustainable activities. Through the methods of non-formal education and training, participants were able to gain new skills and knowledge that can help them within the themes of arts, disability, intercultural relations, activity planning and evaluation. Additionally, trainees had the chance to establish a new or more developed cultural understanding of their own and other cultures that instilled a ripple effect to help them upon their return to their home country/regions.