The project addresses the lack of a common ground for youth work and of a clear picture of what constitutes quality in youth work. At the same time it intends, as an overall aim, to build a firm organisational platform where this common ground and view on what is qualitative youth work could be turned into practical quality development through peer learning and exchange of methods and best practices – InterCity Youth – the European Network of Local Departments for Youth Work. The main objectives of the project are a) to develop common indicators on participation, non-formal learning and gender equality and inclusion of marginalized groups of youth published in a booklet b) to create a web-based library of methods and best practices linked to the indicators c) to establish a structure for “peer cities/youth centres” for continuous cooperation on both quality development and international projects. The project also aims at strengthening relations and cooperation between local departments for youth work and youth organizations as well as other organizations in other parts of the youth field on local, national and European level by, as a first step, inviting them to function as reference groups to the project.The activities of the project will mainly consist of work groups with representatives from the different partner organisations that will together create the sets of indicators and give examples of methods and best practices that can be used to see to what degree actual youth work meets the indicators. The approach and methodology of these groups will based on the report from the European expert group on youth work quality systems, Quality Youth Work – a common framework for the further development of youth work, published by the European Commission.The foreseen results of the project are sets of common indicators and ways to work with them that are used for common quality development within a strong European network of local departments for youth work, ICY.These results will in turn have profound impact on both the development of quality and the ability for almost 400 ICY member departments to prove and articulate the role and contribution of youth work to the personal and social development of young people. It will also lead to that local youth work, through ICY, can speak with a common vice in relation to European authorities and organisations.The long term benefits of these is a better and more accurate recognition of youth work, hence leading to more adequate financing and a stronger position in relation to other actors in the youth sector.