SEEDs among NEETs is a strategic partnership for exchanging of good practices and is a result of the needs of youth workers and organizations in the rural areas of 6 European countries to combat the NEETs phenomenon (BG, LV, MT, PT, RO, SI).Eurostat 2014 data on NEETs shows EU rates of 16.5%. The worst NEETs situation in Europe and within this partnership is in Bulgaria where the total percentage is much higher - 26.1, followed by Romania where the NEETs rate is 20.0%. In Latvia, Portugal and Slovenia figures are closer to the EU rates - 16% in the first two and 13.6 % in Slovenia. At the same time unemployment rates of youth aged 15-24 in the EU rural areas is 22%, in Bulgaria it goes to 30.9%, in Portugal to 28.3%. The above figures indicate a serious NEETs problem at EU level.As a result SEEDs among NEETs defined the following objectives:1) To enhance the capacity of rural youth workers to support NEETs and get them involved in local community life, the training system and/or the labour market. 2) To provide non-formal learning opportunities for 14 people active in youth work in rural areas.3) To foster quality improvements in the youth work of the participating organizations and their communities.About 640 representatives of targets will benefit from the project activities. Youth organizations and workers, public authorities, schools and school psychologists, local organizations engaged with young people, NGOs, local development agencies, parents and relatives of NEETs and youth volunteers in the rural areas will get involved in promotion and dissemination events, study visits, surveys, inter-institutional meetings and working sessions, transnational meetings, etc. 14 of them will take part in a short term joint staff training event which will add value to the project by further providing for non-formal learning opportunities and Youthpass certified skills. While encouraging inter-institutional cooperation and networking, active and full engagement of participants, reflections and self-reflections, critical thinking and comparison, the partnership will develop the following deliverables: comparative analyses on the challenges to approach NEETs, a set of real life cases of successful NEETs, open web space for good practices, strategic plans for local inter-institutional cooperation to enhance inclusion of NEETs in community life or in the job market.The partnership has been formed with the idea to represent a model example of a cross-sector and inter-institutional approach to NEETs and includes youth NGOs and non-formal training providers, development agency and local authority, a group of schools providing VET and entrepreneurship trainings to students and adults, a professional association representing businesses. As a result of the project, similar local networks will design strategic community plans to prevent and combat the NEETs phenomenon. These, along with partner action plans, will provide for project sustainability and long-term effect upon the organizations and participants involved and indirectly upon local NEETs and communities. Furthermore, they will enhance synergies between sectors and institutions.