READ is a 20-month capacity building project dealing with youth, literacy and social inclusion and involving 5 partners: 3 from Europe (CSC Danilo Dolci – Italy, RIS Mansion Rakičan – Slovenia, Amadeus Association– Austria), 1 from Asia (JRP – India) and 1 from Africa (ITF from Kenya).The aim of the project is to promote reading to young people in an integrated manner. READ addresses the problem of illiteracy, the risk of school dropout and the lack of interest that young people have towards education and reading in an integrated manner, using creativity and non-formal education methodologies. The objectives are:- To promote marginalized youngsters ‘s appeal and creativity to decrease their risk of early school leaving- To enhance the socio-professional development of unemployed youth workers- To foster young people’s social inclusion through intercultural activities- To produce a freely available and sustainable Open Educational Resource (OER) for youth workers and organisations dealing with youth.READ foresees the following local and mobility activities:1) State of the art about: a) the situation of literacy/early school leaving levels of partners’ country and specific focus on local community; b) the specific learning needs of the target; c) background framework for project’s methodologies; d) best practices on non-formal approach to read, including the use of digital technologies and social media.2) 8-day International Training Course, addressed to youth workers with educational/artistic background working in youth centres. Goals: 1. to share the results of the research and learn non-formal methodologies in order to increase the appeal of education and the interest in reading for young people; 2. stimulating their creativity and participation and providing the basis of the method to be implemented in the following activities; 3. plan local activities .3) Local activities, involving youth workers, young people dealing with the educational field and youngsters with fewer opportunities. In each project country, youth workers train young people on how to reinterpret reading through the arts. The aim is to increase the appeal of the educational path, developing outputs, tools and methodologies to be used in the local community. 5) 1–day local contest, to vote all the creative outputs and select the winner local group.6) Job shadowing: youth workers from each project organisation have the opportunity to live a short term mobility in a project country exchanging good practices on non-formal educational methods7) International READ Workshop and Festival (8 days): international mixed teams composed by the young people winners of the Local Contests work together to produce new READ products, showing the project results during a public event.Finally, an Open Educational Resource will be created to capitalize all the outcomes and outputs of the project, to be used by any people and organisations dealing with youth and education.