"Currently, in Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Turkey, and Georgia, there is a 12.8%, 5.8%, 22.3%, 27.1% youth unemployment rates respectively. According to the “Youth Strategy” proposed by the European Commission for 2019-2027, one of the four main priorities for the European youth is to create and implement an “Agenda for youth work to further improve its quality, innovation, and recognition and to allow other sectors to capitalize on the potential of non-formal learning”. From this, it became evident to us that something needs to be done, that countries like the Czech Republic are working in the right directions and that one of the largest issues that many European countries are facing is youth unemployment. This issue is being battled on several fronts – formal education and apprenticeships, however, it has become apparent from our research that these measures can have a somewhat slow long-term effect and can be built upon. Currently, in many European and partner countries traditional educational institutions rarely help in career development and our research points that they often lack the capacity and training instruments to help guide young people in the areas of life regarding their future careers. We have found that many schools don’t have career counselors. That is why the “IEY” project is aimed at youth work and youth workers, specifically working in the prevention of unemployment (coaching, counseling, training).The ""IEY"" project aims at decreasing youth unemployment and increasing interest in social entrepreneurship among young people by promoting youth work and helping to inspire further development in the field of youth work. While taking into account the fact that, following the Erasmus + program, the next program 2021-2027 is predicted to grow the range of its reach in terms of learning opportunities from 4 million to 12 million, many of whom young people, participating in training, youth, school, university, and VET mobilities, there will be a high demand for trained and skilled youth workers to provide qualified assistance; to train, inspire, support and coach them into achieving what is best for them, their future development and the European economic conditions.The partnership that will implement the project is comprised of the Economic Development Union from Bulgaria, the Czech Youth Association z.s. from the Czech Republic, the Association for Development, Education and Social Involvement from Georgia and CANAKKALE ONSEKIZ MART UNIVERSITESI from Turkey. Each of the partners has had previous experience with Erasmus + and each of the partners is actively involved with youth work and youth workers on a national and local level. The reason for such a partnership is access to a very specific target group of youth workers, working with young people in a very difficult time - either unemployed or at the begging of their career paths. Furthermore, the partners also have strong relations with additional target groups including educators, who can benefit from the project results and other types of trainers working with developing young people. The project, however, is mainly aimed at youth workers who work with young people in education (still not employed) or unemployed young people. The main objectives are five. First of all, to create new approaches and integrate new practices by using ICT based methodologies and therefore giving youth workers the opportunity to become more competitive and increase their employability chance. Second of all, to improve the competencies that are linked to professional profiles like teaching, training, youth work. Third of all, to create more attractive non-formal training and coaching programs that can be utilized freely and easily by youth workers. Fourth of all and of very high importance is the creation of a process of self-recognition and validation of competencies among youth workers. This can provide quantitative results in terms of the quality of youth work. Last, but not least, our objective is to move ahead with the times and integrate ICT technologies further into the daily activities of youth workers.The planned outputs in line with the objectives are four:- The research into youth work and the establishment of good practices in the sector of youth work as a guideline to future development- The creation and distribution of a guide to youth work prepared with the feedback from youth workers on an international level - The creation and popularization of educational videos for youth workers and additional video materials that can train, develop and improve the quality of non-formal education- The development of a cell phone application, which is aimed at youth work and will provide numerous materials for youth workersThrough these outputs, the project will create a lasting long term effect by improving the quality of youth work and in turn, the employment prospects of young people, thus improving the European market."