Against a backdrop of rising inequality, cutbacks in public services, and marginalisation (and/or radicalization) of disadvantaged young people, the project will make a significant contribution to the EU’s Youth Agenda of active, engaged, connected and empowered young people. Social innovation empowers young people to shape the world around them. Young social innovators develop key competences such as creativity, problem solving, empathy and communication which they apply in ways that develops their active citizenship and connection to their local community. Digital technology can take social innovation to the next level: “Digital technologies pervade every part of our lives. We need to understand how they work in order to make the world work better. But we risk another generation growing up as passive digital consumers rather than confident digital makers.” (Young Digital Makers, 2015, NESTA) However, currently our youth organizations are poorly equipped to engage young people in digital social innovation.In response, Young Digital Social Innovators aims to empower young people to become confident social innovators making the most of digital technology available to them. To do so, we will modernise youth work curricula and practice so that digital social innovation (DSI) can be taught to a high standard across a wide range of youth-serving organisations. Hence our project involves the following stages and outputs: i)Increase awareness, understanding and commitment to YDSI in the youth sector by evidencing its contribution to empowerment, integration and competence development via the development and dissemination of an “All-you-need-to-know” Guide to Digital Social Innovation for Young People (IO1).ii)Strengthen the capacity of youth-serving organisations to teach YDSI by boosting educators’ knowledge and providing easy-to-use tools. The Young Digital Social Innovators’ Toolkit (IO2) will guide youth educators through useful tools/apps for social innovation, highlighting their specific strengths and appropriate pedagogic strategies. The Young Digital Social Innovators’ Framework & OERs (IO3) will provide an integrated set of resources for introducing DSI activities into youth programmes in the short term.iii)Maximizing the number of young people learning and carrying out YDSI projects by sharing our model via an online course and interactive platform (IO4).Within the project lifespan, at least 500 youth educators, organisations and stakeholders will use the IOs, gain knowledge of emerging models of Digital Social Innovation (DSI), develop new skills, and be more equipped to integrate YDSI into non-formal youth programmes. At least 80 youth organisations will use the OERs to facilitate YDSI skills development and project implementation with at least 600 young people, while at least 2,500 young people will access the online course and platform, strengthening their YDSI skillset and leading to hundreds of innovative community projects. As a result of the project, youth educators and youth-serving organisations will become more digitally proficient organisations who are more responsive to the needs of young people in the 21st century. At stakeholder level, the project will generate attitudinal change, as YDSI is understood to be a valuable part of youth development and not a niche field, and a policy change as stakeholders disseminate and support the integration of YDSI to the youth-serving organisations they work with.Thanks to the improvement in the relevance and quality of learning opportunities, young people, especially those facing disadvantage, will strengthen their key competences and move beyond digital literacy into digital making and the applied use of technology. Over time, participating young people will be more engaged, connected and empowered: both improving their personal and professional development, they will make a greater positive contribution to society around them.