There is in Europe an often stated lack of comparable statistics on both youth work practice in it self (what, when, how and to what extent) and the actual outcomes in terms of which and how many young people it reaches and what informal and non-formal learning they actually acquire. “RISE for common documentation of youth work and non-formal learning” addresses and tries to contribute to the solution of this situation. In order to develop and strengthen youth work it is necessary to build a system through which we get the ability to compare what we have been doing with the results obtained – this is over all aim of our project. Our two, equally important, objectives are: • To develop a common system for documentation of youth work. • To develop a common system for documentation of non-formal learning. Two systems that taken together will make it possible to reach our aim and give a substantial contribution to the development of youth work quality. Through developing an Open Badges Backpack that will be part of the open badges ecosystem the project will also provide a European wide, easy accessible way to recognize young persons informal and non-formal learning in Youth Work. Our three partners, with which we have cooperated in three previous projects, are all official authorities in different ways responsible for youth work and the well being of young people. KEKS, in turn, is a non-profit NGO handling development issues for a network of 40 local municipality departments for youth work. The main activities of the project is to develop two web pages / systems, one for the documentation of youth work and one for the documentation of non-formal learning, and all the necessary support systems needed to implement them and make them user friendly, including Wiki user manuals and other material needed for a sustainable introduction in an running of the systems. The main method to obtain this result will be working in work groups that meet in regular workshops producing the material necessary (content and structure) to enable the actual construction of the web pages and the Wikis. Hired experts will in turn do the actual building of the sites. The foreseen result of the project is two web platforms that put together will make it possible to compare how different youth work practices correspond with or lead to different outcomes in terms of non-formal learning. The impact of this will be new and concrete knowledge for people engaged in youth work on all levels on how different youth work practices affect outcomes and, as a result of this, a gradual development of youth work quality. It will also lead to a huge database on youth work practice available for future researchers active in the field. Furthermore it will create a common ground for the exchange of best practises on a European level. The potential longer terms benefits of this is of course that it could hopefully strengthen the position of youth work in relation to other sectors and make it even more obvious that it is essential for Europe and European youth that more effort and money has to be invested in non-formal education and learning, i.e. in the youth work sector!