Context/background: Our project, EAGLES, aims to tackle the youth unemployment problem by developing important employability skills to young job seekers in combination with positive emotions, psychological resilience, optimism and self–esteem. This will be achieved through the development of a very innovative and practical training package which will be utilised by Youth Workers, who will be trained by the EAGLES team and will then act as multipliers of this knowledge. Emphasis will be placed on transferring positive emotions and thoughts to young job seekers. Positive Psychology is the scientific study of optimal human functioning that seeks to discover and promote factors that allow individuals, communities and societies to thrive and flourish (Seligman et al., 2006) Extensive research shows that positive emotions can broaden thoughts and actions and enrich physical, mental, psychological and social resources (Fredrickson, 2013). However, it has been scientifically proved that young people and especially young job seekers lack the ability to activate their positive characteristics and they end up with limited employability skills and inadequate positive emotions to achieve their goal. This is due to the disappointment they often feel when they get rejected by many employers during recruitment process, feeling inadequate and unworthy. EAGLES aims to enhance young job seekers’ employability and entrepreneurial skills, utilising horizontally the principles of positive psychology intervention. Project Objectives:• To develop, test and publish an innovative educational tool for Young Job Seekers (age group: 18-30 yrs old), combining positive psychology approach with current employability/entrepreneurial educational tools. • The educational tool will be provided to 40 Youth Workers (people supporting young people) who will be responsible for transferring this knowledge to young job seekers in their country. Most importantly, the educational tool will further enhance the quality and professionalism of youth workers’ effort to help young people to acquire transversal and life competences and to foster young people’s personal development, enhancing also their employability skills and entrepreneurial spirit. • The educational tool will include practical exercises and activities that job seekers will be able to apply at any stage of their life along with the support of a coach/mentor. One or two experts from our consortium in each country will be trained to take on this role.Number and profile of participants: 5 expert organisations from 4 EU countries (with high levels of unemployment rates): CY, GR, IT, IE. 40 Youth Workers (10 in each country) will take part in our pilot testing programmes. It is expected that through our dissemination and training activities and our media campaign (including traditional and new media) more than 26,000 people will be informed about our project at EU level. Main activities/methodology: 1) State of the art and needs' analysis: Our aim is to identify the most important employability skills needed nowadays in the workplace. 2) Construction of educational training package + manual - Prepare the first version of the EAGLES programme.3) This will be pilot tested in 4 EU countries (CY, GR, IT, IE), having 10 youth workers participating in each country 4) All participants will give feedback about the quality of the training programme, through the use of a questionnaire. Also the trainers and the External Advisory Board members will give their suggestions for further improvement.5) The EAGLES Programme will be provided in face-to-face and through an online platform6) A media campaign will be implemented, with many dissemination activities across Europe, directly reaching our main target groups.Results and impact envisaged: • Offer a new training course to be used across EU by youth organisations, career counselors, universities etc. • By training Youth Workers (Coaches) in four EU countries this will contribute in transferring transnational knowledge and skills to a number of young job seekers and provide support and guidance to them. It will assist Youth Organisations to enhance their practices and methods based on the Positive Psychology perspective.• The proposed educational tool (combining Positive Psychology and Employability skills) will enhance the quality and professionalism of youth workers’ effort to help young job seekers to acquire much needed skills and competences.• The predicted impact of this project on young population will be enormous due to the persistent young unemployment rate. This versatile educational tool will assist young job seekers to develop necessary skills needed in the workplace nowadays.• Serve as a best practice example and a training model for Strategic Partnerships and other EU initiatives within the employability skills area.