Recollecting the Future (REF) is an Erasmus+ Mobility Project for youth workers, that is volunteers and professionals in the youth field including the leadership of youth work organizations. Applicant is the Berlin-based NGO Memos e.V. combining the efforts of altogether eight organisations located in seven different countries. The applicant's key partner is the Institute for Youth Development KULT from Sarajevo including their nationwide network of youth councils and youth officers. Along with KULT six more partner organizations have mandated Memos e.V. to act on their behalf as applicant and coordinator. These partners are the History Museum Bosnia and Herzegovina, the NGO Duga/Serbia, the Croatian Film Association, Mladiinfo Montenegro, the Association of Volunteering from Macedonia, and the NGO Youth for United Europe/Kosovo. The consortium members are from three EU-programme and four partner countries. Six of them are successor states of the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.The project’s pool of partners was launched in July 2014 during the international youth conference "Mlada Evropa" (Young Europe). This event was funded by the EU-Delegation in B&H and organized within the centenary program “Sarajevo 1914/2014”, the commemoration of the outbreak of the First World War. One of the conference’s main themes revolved around the question how non-formal and informal learning can inspire young Europeans to shape their future through socio-cultural and political commitment. The consortium is responding to this challenge by organizing two networking seminars for youth workers in order to encourage active youth participation in heritage practice, historical learning and dealing with the past. Whereas “Mlada Evropa” had a pan-European agenda by using the Open Space Technology and by involving 120 participants from 22 countries, "Recollecting the Future" has a specific geographical angle and will apply a pre-structured methodological approach. Over the duration of eight months, the project partners will implement two interconnected networking seminars involving a clearly defined group of participants. Each partner will designate three youth workers, who are experienced in non-formal training to the benefit of the socio-educational and professional development of young people. In total, 24 youth workers supported by six trainers and facilitators will join their forces.The six-day networking seminars are planned to be organized by Mladiinfo Montenegro in April and by KULT in September 2016. The first seminar is focussed on empowering the established consortium by mutually exploring each partner organization’s approved practice and by assessing the network’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. Over the course of the following months, three multinational online working groups will finetune the agenda of the second event. According to our planning, each of the first four seminar days will be dedicated to one phase of the “Future Workshop” methodology: a) Best Practice Phase; b) Critique Phase; c) Fantasy Phase; d) Implementation Phase. On the event’s final two days a “Market of Opportunities” organized at the History Museum will present the developed perspectives for sustainable historical learning to the general public including media representatives.The present country constellation is inspired by a project jointly carried out by Memos and the Institute for Youth Development KULT with the support of the German “Europeans for Peace” program. It has been one of the project’s earliest learning experiences that a wide transnational angle is needed in order to consider how the breakup of Yugoslavia has affected children and youth all across the region. Only an elaborate project setting that reflects the geo-political as well as socio-cultural complexity of the transitional societies of former Yugoslavia is able to assess to what extent young people growing up in the region are exposed to contesting historical narratives that generally cause frustration, apathy and friction. Thus, REF engages within the described setting aiming to improve the participants’ knowledge, skills and transnational mobility as well their general socio-professional development. On the institutional level, the project intends to enhance the management, governance and innovation capacity, by sharing and testing new youth work practices, tools and non-formal learning methods. In doing so, REF hopes to improve the quality and effectiveness of existing networks, learning partnerships and alliances in order to inspire synergies, cross-fertilization and strategic partnerships. All in all, the partner consortium is committed to the European Youth Strategy’s peer-learning concept and dedicated to contribute to policy reforms towards the internationalization of youth work leading to active political and social participation of young people in Europe and beyond.