"“Making Movies Matter -Competence Based Approach to Applying Filmmaking in Youth Work"" is a project that is aimed at supporting youth work in Europe in incorporating film as a methodology through establishing a comprehensive competence framework that can be used in educating both youth workers and filmmakers, and through creating a set of tools and resources in the area of filmmaking that can be applied in supporting young people's development and participation in a non-formal setting. Furthermore, the project aims to support the cross-sectorial cooperation in the youth field and the quality of youth activities implemented by professionals from other fields, through the development of a simplified youth work competence framework. By engaging professionals experienced in working with marginalized young people and young people with disabilities, this project will also ensure that the tools and activities are adapted to the specific needs of those young people, thus making the youth organizations more capable to reach and engage the most marginalized groups of young people.For more than five years now, organizations from this partnership are experimenting with using filmmaking and film as a method in youth work, with the aim of appealing to and supporting the personal development and participation of young people who are left out at the margins of the society. Over the last few years we saw the value of involving youth workers who have at least basic understanding of filmmaking processes, and filmmakers who are aware of the principles of non-formal education and group learning processes. In three editions of the international training course Making Movies Matter we worked on educating youth workers on how to facilitate filmmaking learning processes with young people. In the last edition, held in July/August 2019, we tried to bring together a mixed group of participants with youth work and filmmaking background and to educate them in the basic competences in both fields. There were two major learning outcomes of this effort. Firstly, we saw that we are missing a competence model for applying film in working with young people. Secondly, we identified a lack of tools and resources that are ready to use in this kind of processes. Finally, reflecting upon this experience, we also realized there is a lack of simplified youth work competency framework that can be used with other professionals. Our four organizations also involve visual artists, teachers, technicians (such as carpenters) and others in implementing activities with young people. Having just the complex ETS competence model, it is difficult to train them to be ready for working with young people. Partnering with professionals from other fields becomes increasingly important as organizations are trying to diversify youth work, and many are facing a similar problem of lacking a simple framework.Hence this project, which will produce three main results, published as intellectual outputs: a competence framework for using filmmaking as a method in youth work, a handbook with tools and educational resources in the area of filmmaking that can be applied in supporting young people's development and participation in a non-formal setting, and a general simplified youth work competency framework.To test the filmmaking competency framework, the organizations involved in this project will also develop a training course for youth workers and filmmakers, based on the identified competences. As a follow-up to the training, the participants will implement filmmaking activities in their local communities. At least 70 young people, 30 of them with fewer opportunities, will take part in this piloting phase. During this period, the organizations will have a chance to evaluate the first and second intellectual outputs with the staff and the young participants. The results of that reflection will be shared by a mixed group of participants during the second training event - the Evaluation Seminar, and the outcomes will serve as a basis for creating a general youth work framework that will be used for professionals from other fields.The last months of the project will be devoted to finalizing the outputs according to the received feedback and disseminating them to a wide group of stakeholders on a national and European level. Four multiplier meetings will be held, while the results will be also presented in public screening events in each of the communities, and though a number of offline and online dissemination activities with different stakeholders. We expect that by adopting this approach, organizations and youth workers will increase by far their capacities to reach and support young people with fewer opportunities. More importantly, the project will pioneer a model for establishing cross-sectoral cooperation in theyouth field, by introducing a set of minimum competences in youth work and designing a training approach for training them with different professionals."