Youth exchange "Young Volunteer Kick-off meeting” is going to take place in Åmål, Sweden in April 4-9, 2016. The aim of the project is to discuss, share and create ideas and tools about volunteering process among young people in the context of cultural and social integration. Knowledge that will be gained through the project will serve as a helping tool for partner organizations to involve and attract young generation to volunteering. The issue that project adresses is a decreasing number of young volunteers that many volunteer organizations face and feel a need to change. The project will contribute to developing new ideas about how to promote voluntary activities among young people and see how this process differs from country to country; encouraging youth to be active, to take initiative and to improve their skill-sets by being socially active and taking responsibilities; raising awareness of benefits of being active in volunteering. The project will consider volunteering, social work, intercultural experience as a way to help young people to jumpstart their own professional growth and development; networking among organizations that represent different countries and work in a similar or identical field.25 young people from Sweden, Romania, Poland, Spain and Portugal will come together and do workshops, panel discussions, simulation game, project development sessions, as well as will meet the leaders for local Swedish groups of volunteers in order to exchange information and experience when it comes to raising awareness of volunteering among youngsters. The project will use a wide range of different principles and methods in order to stimulate thinking and creativity: active participation, direct involvement, peer to peer education, multiplier effects, personal contribution, self presentation, involvement of local community. Project's impact is seen as a new experience that project partners spread further to their partners in their homecountries, a new set of activities and innovative approaches of attracting and keeping the younger generation interested in voluntary activities. We want to modernize the voluntary sector in Åmål, Sweden, and Europe, and by that to achieve a multiplying effect in other project countries, as well as to show that by volunteering one can improve career opportunities and experience personality growth.