Young people are facing challenges driven by accelerating globalization and rate of technological developments. By March 2018, 3,5 million young people aged 15-24 were unemployed in the EU from 88,6 million young Europeans between 15 and 29 . Some 28.8% are at risk of poverty or social exclusion. The rationale of the project is to analyze how ready for new challenges – accelerated globalization, technological developments, immigrant youth resilience and cultural exclusion – are Higher Education programs of Social Professions (social work, caritative social work, social pedagogy, sociology, social entrepreneurship) in partnering countries for the development of the idea and practice of positive youth development (PYD) in Eastern and Central European countries.HE must equip the students of social professions with the competences they need to shape lives of young people and contribute to solidarity values – volunteering, engaging in the life of the local community and acting for the benefit of society, work for social inclusion, supporting pro-social activities, involvement in multicultural and intercultural education, etc. – between people in the EU. The objective of the project is to collaboratively improve the existing study programs in partner universities with innovative interdisciplinary Course Module promoting positive asset building where young people are resources for critical strategies, and to work out the methodology for training of students to become integrated youth change agents for PYD at national level.Target groups are the bachelor level students of study programs of social work, caritative social work, social pedagogy, sociology, social entrepreneurship, including LLL educators, professional and informal career educators; youth leaders, social researchers, policy makers engaged in youth empowerment in the EU, youth organizations working with people with special needs.Project involves partnership of 5 universities that have specialized in youth development, prevention and youth education field. University of Bialystok (PL) is the coordinator of the project, and partners are: Malmo University Faculty of Health and Society (SE); Klaipeda University Faculty of Health Sciences (LT); Latvian Christian Academy (LV); and University of Warsaw Institute of Social Prevention and Resocialization (PL).During the project, the partnership will: 1) perform Comparative Analysis, using innovative methodology of Integrative Theology, for establishing anthropological dimension from analyzing data from core journals, articles and other publications to understand how positive youth development, participation, solidarity values are core element in development, implementation and evaluation of youth policies at national and international levels, and how they are integrated in curricula of social professions in partnering countries, thus boosting innovative scientific methodology for PYD as a specific strength of youth and resources in their contexts. Analysis will reveal the anthropological basis of youth problems, giving the basis for constructing the curricula of social professions in a more integral way.2) establish, implement and evaluate the Course Module “Integrative Work with Youth” applicable at Bachelor level in partnering universities for training students as future professionals having specific skills and knowledge for supporting youth and becoming integrated youth change agents for PYD. 3) develop digital teaching tools for Course Module – a Study Handbook “Youth Participation and Solidarity” and Youth Work Reader available for other HEIs in the EU, and useful for LLL courses, youth policy developers; 4) perform testing the Course Module based on the effects of Study Handbook and Youth Work Reader in the Intensive Program (Curriculum Test) involving 10 students 2 teachers from each partner university in the period of 5 months. The material collected and developed by students, teachers and coordinator will be the basis for participation in Summer School (2022) as a closing event.The impact of the project is envisaged in contributing to policy making for youth policy development and improving the quality of study programs of social professions: the results of the project will be used by specialists of social professions as a tool of work with Youth target groups. The results will be transferred also to social and associated partners developing the teaching content in practice.The long-term benefits and results of the project are: 1) contribution to deeper social diagnosis of youth problems level for academic staff in respective study programs regarding implementation of PYD and solidarity values and practices among young people in the EU; 2) the exchange of best practices and innovative methods of knowledge acquisition and training in study programs of social professions regarding the new challenges of youth development and participation at national and international level.