REWIP: Refugee empowerment and work integration programme, is an Erasmus+ “Strategic Partnership for youth” project that aims to foster the inclusion and employability of young refugees by building their competences, supporting their socio-educational and personal development and enhancing their participation in civic and work life through the creation of employability bridges with the host society. The project also aims to promote quality youth work and particularly support youth work organisations in developing and sharing effective methods in reaching out to young migrants and refugees. The idea behind this project lies in the fewer opportunities that newly arrived young refugees have for entering the labour market and integrating effectively in the host societies (Rambaree, Berg & Thomson, 2017). A wide range of different factors makes the road to the job market lengthy and difficult. Such factors relate to the difficulties they face in navigating to the system of the host country, the lack of sufficient knowledge of the job market, little professional experience and intercultural differences and the most important lack of relevant social networks. As a result, young refugees spent a long period out of work (and in some cases out of education), which makes their potential to find a work even harder. In this context, REWIP aims to transform this crucial but “unexploited” period that young refugees look for work, into a substantial opportunity for developing their competences and create networks and contacts that will enable them to enter the job market more quickly. The project aims to achieve this goal not only by providing support, training and guidance but also well granted opportunities to connect with the local ecosystem. Particularly, the project will develop an innovative action based “Refugee empowerment and work integration programme” that will have at its core the development of volunteering and internship opportunities for connecting young refugees with the local communities and the local labor market. By participating in volunteering and internship placements young refugees will increase their employability potential by practicing their skills and developing new ones; they will gain professional experience, build contacts and networks with local citizens and organisations and learn more quickly the language of the host country and understand national systems, culture and history and thus participate more effectively in the local community. The project will be implemented in Greece, Italy and the Netherlands and will involve directly 300 young refugees as the main beneficiaries of the REWIP activities. The choice of the countries was not done by chance since the participating organisations wanted to emphasize on the cross-national analysis and research regarding the professional inclusion of young refugees not all in the Mediterranean refugee receiving countries (Greece 46,381 and Italy 147,302 received refugees in 2016 according to World Bank) but also in Northern countries such as the Netherlands (101,702 received refugees in 2016 according to World Bank) where the strategies adopted by the stakeholders of the country seem to be more evolved and more individualized in comparison with the Southern Europe. In relation to youth work organisations, significant results are foreseen since the project will improve the knowledge and capacities of youth workers in fostering labour inclusion of refugees. In qualitative terms, the project will improve the capacities of at least 30 youth workers that will be directly involved in the project activities and of at least 200 that will be reached through international trainings and exploitation activities. Finally, it should be highlighted that the project has a strong innovation potential that lies in its intersectoral approach and high applicability. In particular, REWIP creates a unique opportunity to enforce labor market integration efforts by offering a digital tool and a flexible methodology that can be applicable by the different sectors of the economy. In particular, REWIP could be exploited by other youth work organizations and by relevant public authorities as a complementary way to labor market integration which can improve both the capacities and the performance of youth work organizations and competent public agencies in the specific domain.