The idea about ,,Youthocracy" began during a training seminar in May 2014, when some of the current partners met, and later on discussed the possibilities for collaboration. later on, the representatives from the applicant organization met the Italian partners during an Erazmus+ meeting and discussed their entry into the project. At the moment, it was identified a need to support young people with training and networking activities with focus on promoting youth development, non formal education through a variety of creative approaches and methods as well as research and share of best practices among the partners, as well share of those practices with home based organizations in Macedonia, Austria and Italy.Youthocracy has a mission to create and share best practices and methods for empowerment, engagement an activation for youth, through establishment of a network/web of European youth organizations that all work by using innovative, but different methods and approaches. The desired objectives are:- Stimulate and create coordinating body of 3 European youth organizations that will work together on creation, promotion and introduction of practices on topics such as: youth involvement in community development, experiences and best practices & provide training and non formal education to youth. (as a follow up there will be efforts made in order to enlarge the network, thus promote various methods and approaches of youth work and best practices even more).- Promotion and introduction of innovative methods and approaches related to non formal education for youth, through usage of theater, music, art, environment, social and economic issues and topics.- Strengthen the capacity and increase the knowledge of youth workers across Europe - through creation of a web platform on which organizations from Macedonia, Austria and Italy will be invited to share their best practices related to youth work (guest organizations - minimum 15, meaning 5 per country + 3 coordinating ones).The project strives towards achievement of sustainable change in support of youth development through additional non formal education for young people and networking opportunities for youth workers. The activities that will be realized through the project consist of:- creation and providing of training programs, -networking, -share of experiences and resources, -public policy efforts and work together to improve the quality of youth services and promote youth development principles across a broad range of communities, etc.The need for realization of ,,Youthocracy" envisions communities filled with youth amd youth workers who can achieve personal and academic success, but also social success and contribution; be connected to adults and their community; have a positive vision of their future and grow up to be healthy, productive and civic-minded adults. Through the realization of the project 3 youth organizations across Europe will work together in order to discuss and share best practices and experiences from their past, present and future planned youth work, as well as to work on creation of 3 different training courses for youth based upon different kind of methods and approaches (environment, art, music, theater, activism, volunterism, etc.). After the project ends, these training courses will be applied through the Erazmus+ programme, KA1.The target group of the project consists of:- Directly involved: youth workers and youth organizations, local authorities (municipalities from the targeted 3 countries which will have their own contribution to the process) , and additionally 15 organizations, 5 per country that will be invited by every partner/coordinator organization.- Follow up involved: youth organizations and youth workers from the targeted 3 countries - spreading of the network, dissemination of the platform, and realization of additional activities (expected, additional 5-7 more organizations per country- Follow up involved (2): youth organizations and youth workers across all of Europe, through dissemination of the platform to other networks, mailing lists, social networks, etc. - Follow up involved (3): additional municipalities, representatives from local authorities, etc.The project strives towards achievement of sustainable change in support of youth development through additional non formal education for young people and networking opportunities for youth workers. Through its realization there will be a better understanding of non formal education, recognition of youth workers' skills and qualifications across Europe. Sharing is caring, so let's share our knowledge and our positive and negative experience in order to find the best suitable way to transfer knowledge to the young population.