The idea and planning of this Mobility project was developed by the young people in the course of discussions during the Erasmus + seminar about how to empower and equip the peer leaders with tools in the field of community volunteering and youth inclusion project work in our organizations. At this seminar the youth educators found a common interest in the empowerment of the young people they work with, especially those coming from deprived urban areas and believe that a series of empowerment activities would enhance their prospects for employability and/or community engagement through volunteering. After discussions with partners that work in the field of social inclusion of young people coming from deprived urban areas from Lithuania, Portugal and Italy have worked together to develop this multi-leg Mobility project. They decided to use Erasmus + opportunities to promote community volunteering as alternative to unemployment and social exclusion among urban youth.All the activities, including Contact making event in Italy, Youth exchange in Portugal and Training course in Lithuania, will support the young participants in achieving the following aims of the project:- To facilitate the inter-sector (NGOs, private businesses and state sector) networking process among participants and partner organizations.- To be introduced to the reality of each other on a personal, professional and cultural level.- To exchange principles and possible ways of youth participation and youth empowerment in a non-formal way to support volunteering among young people coming from deprived urban areas and having economic and employment problems.- To recognize that they can be agents of change.- To get in direct touch with the external environment, with organizations and bodies that have strong relevance and influence for the youth employability topic.- To promote a wider understanding of the social inclusion and how to engage motivated young people as active citizens and volunteers.- To identify, present and multiply good practice examples (youth work practices and youth participation projects, which enhance employability of young people). - To train participants with empowerment skills to share their knowledge and competencies with their peers.- To create space for exchanging local project experiences and to explore the skills and competences gained during the realization of the projects.- To be introduced to an array of new methods to create replicable presentations that will promote the values and concept of community volunteering as an alternative to unemployment and social exclusion.Contact making event in Italy will involve 20 participants and 4 group leaders. It will include presentations of participants and organizations and realities with employment situation in programme countries, presentation of the Erasmus + Programme with a special focus on new developments and opportunities for cooperation between the partners, presentation of peer youth work opportunities and structure in the countries involved, workshops on Project management, Inclusion and Employability opportunities for young people coming from deprived urban areas, inspiration visit to a youth centre in Catania.Youth exchange in Portugal will engage 52 participants and 8 group leaders involved from each participating country. The exchange will consist of balanced set of theoretical inputs on various aspects of communication, social inclusion, community volunteering, employability opportunities of young people from deprived urban areas and exercises (simulations, consensus and confrontation exercises, group works etc.). The Training course for Peer leaders and Educators in Lithuania will involve 24 participants and 4 group leaders. Working methods will be: learning ways of transferring knowledge to peers; Open Space as a way to show and share what our interests are and what skills we have acquired; “Deep in the Community” exercise; reflections and discussion on the learning obtained. All of the activities will include self-reflection where the participants can reflect on their personal experience and try to find answers. The activities also suggest simulations and provide experimental experiences for the participants.As a result of the Mobility project young people will have skills and competences required to facilitate community volunteering as alternative to unemployment and social exclusion among urban youth.