Equality Ambassadors – Using creativity and new digital technologies to promote democracy, equality and human rights with youth workers and young people in an Equal EuropeEquality Ambassadors is an innovative transnational partnership project bringing together five partner organisations from Ireland, Croatia, Greece, Serbia and Spain who work with young people including those most marginalised. The project promotes an exchange and transfer of good practice and the sharing of ideas at a European level between the five partner organisations involved in youth work, bringing them together to collaboratively design a new European Equality Ambassador Peer Leadership Training Programme, providing opportunities for young people to participate in the democratic life of Europe and to gain knowledge and experience in how to promote European values for democracy, equality and human rights. The Equality Ambassadors Peer Leadership Training programme is an innovative training module that uses creative processes of theatre-based workshops combined with new digital media technologies and online resources to develop a range of skills with young people in order to train them as Equality Ambassadors. An Equality Ambassador is a young person trained in to engage or link with other young people in order to promote European values of democracy, equality and human rights and to promote active civic engagement at a European level. An Equality Ambassador receives training in personal and social development, in leadership and in the use of new digital technologies to promote democracy, equality and human rights and active citizenship at a European level.Europe needs more cohesive and inclusive societies which allow citizens to play an active role in democratic life. This strategic cooperation project works with youth workers, youth leaders, teachers, facilitators, artists and young people to promote awareness of common European values and a sense of inclusion in an Equal Europe. The project results in a new Equality Ambassador Peer Leadership Training Curriculum, an Equality Ambassadors Resource book and an Equality Ambassadors mobile phone digital app – all available online in digital format. The materials provide education and training in relation to the EU and its role in promoting democracy, equality and human rights today. Young people who access the Equality Ambassadors Peer Leadership Training programme are trained as Equality Ambassadors. An Equality Ambassador is a young person who can:•Demonstrate an awareness of and advocate for democracy, equality and human rights •Share their own experiences and listen to other’s experiences of inequality•Aim to identify changes needed to promote democracy, equality and human rights•Aim to identify ways for bringing different communities together•Be open minded, non-judgmental and willing to listen and learn•Communicate with others in relation to advocating for democracy, equality and human rights•Provide access to an on-line list of resources to promote democracy, equality and human rightsThe EU is founded on principles of liberty, democracy, respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. This project uses creative processes and new digital technologies to create an innovative training programme for young people that raises awareness of the democratic values that underpin the EU and the role of the EU today to promote democracy, equality and human rights for all.The project brings together 10 youth workers and 25 youth from 5 countries across Europe and involves them in the development of a new joint curriculum for an Equality Ambassador Peer Leadership Training Programme and an Equality Ambassadors Resource Book and mobile Digital app featuring twenty-five stories of role models related to democracy, equality and human rights in the EU. Six transnational partner exchanges are held in Ireland, Serbia, Croatia, Spain, Greece and Ireland, attended by ten youth workers. As part of curriculum development, each partner holds two focus group sessions and one curriculum development workshop attended by two youth workers and five young people per partner country, totalling 10 youth workers and twenty-five youth. The ten youth workers and twenty-five youth then collectively attend two Skype sessions. A total of ten Youth Workers are trained in how to conduct the Equality Ambassador Curriculum with young people. The training is then rolled out with 200 young people across Europe training them as Equality Ambassadors so they are able to go on to raise awareness of the importance of democracy, equality and human rights and the role of the EU to promote values of equality, tolerance and inclusion. A Communications and Dissemination strategy is conducted and the Equality Ambassadors Curriculum, Resource Book, Digital App and Final Report and Evaluation are distributed. The project culminates in an International Youth Symposium held at the final partner exchange.