Living Land project develops an experimental framework for Youth Employability and EngagementApproach, promoting youth worker’s capabilities. LL aims to support and enhance young skills andcompetences through a link between social workers (in the PA- Public Administration) and youthworkers (in NPO- Non Profit Organization). This approach uses youth work as an occasion tosupport vulnerable young group entering in the job market, but also feeling part of their communities.PA (municipalities, province, mountain community/parks) work together with the local NPO detectingvulnerable situations (NEET, unemployed young, economic and social disadvantages, disabilities,school drop-out), offering inclusion activities, bringing them closer to the job market. These activitiesaim to involve young in apprenticeship or traineeship experience linked with social and citizenshipskills empowerment. The young involved become part of their community, with a strategic role and aleadership, promoting their empowerment and the recognition of their formal and non-formal skillsand capabilities. It also fosters young assessment of transversal skills, in a Life Skills perspective.The 2 years’ project develops an innovative methodology at a local level, able to empower youthemployability services and youth workers’ competences. We’d like to build a model accessible,replicable by different bodies or groups (NPO or PA) in order to facilitate any kind of non-formalactivities to be carried out locally, valorizing, mapping and linking existing experiences for young. Thekey objective is to innovate youth workers approach, taking in charge vulnerable young. The otherkey objective is the creation of intervention model (LL Web Platform and Guidelines KIT) aimed tostrength skills of youth workers and policy makers. The project would like to create an effective andoperational tool to implement employability policies at local, national and European level. The localand final events and dissemination activities will be strategic in order to communicate and inform theeffective impact that the project could arise. During the transnational meeting, partner will exchangepoint of views and will define the content of the intellectual outputs. The training will be useful to 20youth workers ready to run out the pilot test locally. LL Guidelines KIT (01 output) will be a tool fortraining and it will contain examples, best practices and information about youth employabilitystrategies. LL Web Platform (02 output) is an open access platform, with an easy and comfortableapproach to be used by each youth workers or bodies (PA or NPO) to implement activities for younglocally. LL is based on the young needs expressed in several year’s experience by the partners.Especially the needs to imagine a possible future and find a place in the world, giving meaning totheir time; to know and test skills and competences, getting involved in an adult perspective; to havean adult key player as a reference that welcomes and accompanies them during the experience andbeyond; to share experiences with peers and belong to a real group; to be recognized and discoveredin their capabilities by the adult community; to learn new things, through a theoretical-practicaltraining, and to compete in new contexts, different for example from school and family. LL stressesthe youth spirit strengthening the capabilities of youth workers in charge to support them.The project, through a pilot action, at the end and after the project end involves at least 1 PA in eachCountry and 3 NPOs collecting and uploading to the platform some experiences addressed at leastto 150 young among Europe. The project is based on the recent EU reflections about Traineeship and Apprenticeship systems, whose relevance and priority is emphasized by the EU documents andnational local policies, such as The Guidebook for Policy Planners and Practitioners, but also reflectsthe suggestions of National Ministries regarding the construction of stronger competencies of youthworkers in charge of these measures, who play a critical role in helping young people make asmoother transition from school to work (STW) or to find the right way to express their competencesand skills. Empirical evidence suggests that both types of schemes can significantly improve youngpeople’s employment prospects by contributing to the acquisition of work-related skills andexperience in close alignment with employer requirements, leading to nationally recognizedqualifications, enhancing young people’s links to the labour market, and providing young people withvaluable first work experience. The consortium, involving 5 partners in 5 EU countries, isrepresentative of a wide spectrum of Countries and of skills thanks to the involvement of importantand articulated professional profiles and experiences.