“PANDORA’S BOX Young Women, Community Development through EU and LA Cooperation” is set to answer the needs of empowering women and young girls in Europe and Latin America, identifying and redressing power imbalances and giving them more autonomy to manage their own lives. Indeed the project goal is to meet the above mentioned needs and priorities, by raising awareness on the role of women in family, society and economy and by promoting the women empowerment in Europe and Latin America. The project will last 15 months and involve: Lunaria – Italy, Solidarites Jeunesses – France, Pandora Mirabilia – Spain, El Hombre Sobre La Tierra-Mexico, Brigada de Voluntarios Bolivarianos del Peru-Perù and Fundaciòn Proyecto Ecològico Chiriboga-Ecuador.The project aims to enhance gender equity and young women empowerment by providing youth social workers, peer educators, local organizations and international NGOs in Europe and Latin America with new tools and methods to favour young women participation in short and medium local and international voluntary service projects. It will include different actions: itinerant feasibility visit; training course on gender issues and non formal education methods, youth meetings in the LA countries; training course on project management; study phase in the LA countries; local actions implementation; training course-restitution and methods sharing and follow up activities.During the project the consortium organizations will develop, test and assess a methodological package, including non formal education methods, tool kit and video tutorial, to approach different target groups and to facilitate the gathering and capitalization of different outcomes.The project foresee to achieve the following outcomes and results: development of a pedagogical set of methodology and of training methods for youth workers and peer educators; non-formal learning methods upgrading and testing; promotion of peer-learning activities; foster of cooperation and networking between LA and EU organization.