International Federation of Training Centers for Active Education Methods (FICEMEA) has been promoting progressive education for 60 years as a tool to transform educational and social practices by reinforcing youth and education stakeholders’ capacity. Our project entitled “education, a public good: stakes and perspectives” enables youth workers from associations in EU countries and from the European neighbourhood to collaborate with the 42 members of our network. The pan-European youth workers will analyse the process of commercializing education and will be a creative force to come up with propositions in link with this topic. They will be given the opportunity to share their analysis and their own realities with associations from South America, Africa, and Indian Ocean. Indeed, we observe this process in various countries. Democratic states, according to their regulatory role, have a duty to implement policies that allow equal access for everyone to these universal and fundamental rights. Inequality between citizens does exist. States have public tools to share and redistribute wealth that should allow greater equality. This should prevent these activities from being governed by the market’s laws, which increase inequalities in access to education. The issues raised by the commercializing education concern all areas of educative actions. We focus our analysis on the interaction between formal and non-formal education and have identified 4 areas of analysis questioning the character of education as a public good and linked together: compulsory and non-compulsory education, educational leisure activities, cultural education, education through media and media literacy. The project’s goals are to contribute to the political reforms by: raising stakeholders’ awareness about the question of commercializing education, training of youth workers to set up an operational lobbying process to struggle against this trend, creation of national, European and international networks for a better visibility on this topic, recognition of civil society and more specifically recognition of youth workers by governments and international institutions. We expect to achieve a greater efficiency on the field of education for all and to enable people’s empowerment, active citizenship and effective influence on policies.