BACKGROUNDMigrant youth is a target group that is not easy to be reached. Several factors contribute to the high degree of difficulty that characterizes youth work with migrants. The most prominent factor is the fact that young people from a migrant background are one of the groups most at risk of poverty and social exclusion. According to the European commission EU Youth Report 2015, “They usually face multiple disadvantages leading to persistent poverty and a marginalized position in society. As the 2012 EU Youth Report pointed out, immigrants often lack the social capital (networks and information) needed for being fully included in society. The situation looks similar when looking at second generation immigrants – the children of foreign-born. The atrisk-of-poverty rates of immigrant children are the highest in Greece (52.7 %), Spain (46 %)”. Due to their marginalization, either this is drop out, poverty or other situation, young migrants are difficult to be approached in a systematic way through official routes, such as school and other constitutions. The already disadvantaged position of migrants along with the tension produced by the current migrant flows constitutes necessary the provision of effective reaching out techniques for migrant youth work.OBJECTIVESThe Overall Objective of the project is to improve the techniques to approach and link youth workers to young migrants (refugees, immigrants and asylum seekers) in order to develop innovation addressed to improving integration processes of young migrants.The specific objectives of this project are a) to equip youth workers with innovative techniques for reaching out to young migrants, refugees and asylum seekers, b) to provide reaching out techniques tailored specifically to the characteristics of young migrants, c) to promote efficient youth work, d) to promote the concept of youth work among migrants, asylum seekers and refugees, e) to promote transnational cooperation among youth working organizations.BENEFICIARIESThe project directly targets youth workers working with young migrants, refugees and asylum seekers which constitute the indirect target groups of the project. A total of 500 persons will benefit from the project.Intellectual Outputs, Learning Activities and Multiplier eventsIO1: State of the Art Report on the obstacles for youth work with migrantsIO2: The reaching out handbook: innovative techniques for reaching out to young migrants, asylum seekers and refugeesC1-C6: 6 Short term Joint Staff events which will focus on the training of youth workers on the reaching out techniques of the Handbook.- Part 1: 1-2 days of training on the chosen reaching out technique. - Part 2: 1-2 days of implementation of the techniques by the trainees.- Part 3: Evaluation of the technique by the trainees.E1: Final transnational conference in order to disseminate the outputs.RESULTS & IMPACTThe project is expected to have a multiple impact on participating organizations, participants and stakeholders from the youth work sector and the immigration-related field. The main results will be the provision of innovative reaching out techniques for youth work with migrants and the improvement of cooperation between youth work organizations in the face of the migrant crisis (with the expected resault of the articulation of a future Network). Indirectly, migrants and refugees will enjoy the benefits of youth work. On the same time youth work initiatives will be cost effective and time effective.