This project is applied by a consortium of three organizations that are committed to applying arts in addressing social issues and strengthening social inclusion in their communities. The three organizations are local leaders in this field and over the years they have developed effective methodology to tackle the most pressing social issues. However, as the organizations are facing more challenges, both external and intrinsic, the need for exchange of approaches and good practices becomes imminent. The last time the partners worked together was in the period 2015-2016, when they implemented a multi-measure KA1 project together. Since then the local realities have changed a lot politically, socially and economically, and the local young people we are working with are now posed with new challenges and opportunities. These changes in the society include: increased influx of immigrants, rise of extreme right wing and populist movements, increased violent radicalization among young people, rise of Euro-skepticism and other phenomena. Every day we witness the growing need for youth work to intervene and to provide support to young people, particularly to those that are the most marginalized. At the same time, we can see that the traditional methods or youth work are not as effective any more, and that there is a growing need for innovation.This Strategic Partnership is aimed at supporting the exchange of good practices and innovative methods in the field of applying arts for social change between the three partner organizations. By doing so, the partners will strengthen their human capacities and will increase their ability to address different social issues with new target groups. Direct benefit from the project will have the youth workers, youth leaders and artists from each of the organizations, while indirectly the project will benefit the target group of each partner, as well as the wider local communities. Furthermore, the project has a potential to reach organizations beyond the partnership and to promote the application of arts as innovative approach in addressing social issues. To achieve that, the organizations will establish a web portal where the project results will be shared. Short videos presenting the artistic approaches of each partner will also be prepared and widely distributed.To achieve all of that, the partners will focus on the following objectives:-To provide an opportunity for the three partners to demonstrate their working approaches, good practices, innovative methods and newly developed tools for applying arts for social change;-To provide an opportunity for youth workers, youth leaders and artists from each of the involved communities to explore new and innovative approaches in using arts for social change;-To enable the partners to adapt the newly learned artistic approach to the needs of their target groups and the social issues they are targeting;-To develop a platform for sharing the artistic approaches of the three partners with other organizations and youth workers from throughout Europe;-To promote the use of art as an innovative methodology for addressing social issues and pursuing social change;-To explore the potential for developing new international cooperation projects using arts in tackling social issues;-To explore the potential for establishing more sustainable, cross-sectoral partnerships and frameworks for using arts in supporting young people’s development and participationCentral activities of this project will be three short-term staff training events, in the form of Study Visits, which will be organized in the period from May until November 2020. Each partner will host one study visit, thus presenting their innovative approach, good practices, methodology and newly developed tools for using arts in addressing social issues and pursuing social change. Participants in the study visits will be 5 youth workers and artists from each of the other organizations, who will have the skillset and motivation necessary to work on incorporating the newly learned approaches in organization's work. Each study visit will be followed-up by local activities that will pilot the new tools and methods.The results of this strategic partnership project will be shared on a web portal that will be developed especially for this project. The portal will be the central location where information about the project will be shared, along with updates about the activities, both local and international. The portal will also be the place where the partners will publish information about their innovative artistic approaches, tools and methods. We will work to turn this portal into a platform that will be used by organizations throughout Europe to share their own good practices, innovative approaches and new artistic tools that can be used for addressing social issues with young people and fostering positive social change.