"Young people 's lifestyle is so entrenched in technology, that is not an option as to whether the youth service should use social and digital media because of the impending risk is to become outdated to young people. The Flash Eurobarometer 408 ""European Youth"" shows that the percentage of young people in EU who, in the 12 months before the survey, participated in any activity of a youth club, leisure time club or any kind of youth organization, is just 16%, registering a decreasing respect the previous survey in 2013, when the value was the 22%. Hi-tech Youth Work created a field of sharing of competences and tools, validated by youth organizations based in 4 different countries (Italy, Malta, Moldova and Lithuania), in order to increase the abilities of the involved youth workers to act also as media educators, able to use social media and digital competences not only for the purpose of communication but also as part of the key content of youth work, even able to make inclusive the youth work. It represented an answer to the need of constant updating of the youth workers to the new technologies, allowing a transnational exchange of competences and suggestions that represented a point of reference for other youth workers and organizations (as demonstated by the high levels of attendance of the final webinars). The cooperation among youth workers from different countries allowed to deepen the use of different ICT tools and methods that were generalized and applied in the partner organizations, contributing to an European shared inclusive and high quality youth work. The project lasted 2 years (March 2017 - February 2019) wth the implementation of 4 short-term joint staff training events (one of them was on-line), one by each partner organization, for 3 youth workers and/or volunteers per partner (each short-term joint staff training event was followed by a phase of local activities for the application and experimentation of the learning outcomes in the partner organizations) and a blended mobility that involved 5 young participants and an accompanying person per partner and was held in Palermo with the aim use the full potential of ICT in youth work while creating a non formal learning pattern for the improvement of the young participants employability skills. The process of exchange of best practices among the partners covered the following topics:- use of social and digital media for communication purposes and management issues related to the youth work- ICT based educational games, youth activities based on the creation of digital contents: digital photography, meme creation, creation of video/documentary movies, digital art, creation of digital booklets etc.- suggestions and methods about the management of youth work activities with mixed ability groups using the vehicle of the creation of digital contents. - media education The implementation of the project was based on a collaborative approach among the partners so each one of them was responsible of specific actions in order to reach the foreseen results for each project activity. The learning process of the involved youth workers and volunteers was mediated by the participatory learning and peer based learning in the form of exchange of good practices and actual experiences, learning by doing, practical experimentation of the learning outcomes. The results of the local activities were constantly shared inside the partnership. The process of application and validation of the shared ICT based methods and tools in youth work allowed to create useful and concrete tool-kit and tutorials that were disseminated for the use by by other youth workers from all over Europe and beyond; the project produced: a final digital booklet containing validated tools and strategies to strengthen the use of new technologies in youth work; tools in the form of video-tutorial or descriptions; the organization of 4 final webinars where the youth workers trained more than 200 youth workers on the project results.The project had a strong personal and social impact on the participants in terms of knowledge and know how on the strategic use of ICT in youth work, it improved the quality of the youth work activities and services offered by the participating organizations and it strengthen their cooperation; the project results demonstrated to be a concrete support to the youth work of organizations and professionals and the youth, as target group, gained in terms of effective learning outcomes, deeper engagement in YW, development of tolerance and solidarity and higher employability. The wide process of dissemination, the actual application of the project results in the partner organizations and the concrete planning of an extended project able to expand the operating range of the project will ensure the sustainability of the project impact."