Our Programs

Youth Empowerment & Wellbeing
Direct work with young people — building skills, confidence, wellbeing and belonging.

Democratic Participation and Civic Space
Working with the systems around young people — youth workers, municipalities, universities and civil society partners.

Peace, Inclusion and Intercultural Dialogue
Coexistence, inclusion and dialogue across difference.

Media Literacy & Digital Citizenship
Helping young people, citizens, youth workers, educators and institutions navigate — and shape — the information environment they live in.

Green Citizenship & Sustainable Communities
Connecting young people’s civic voice to sustainability. We are currently expanding this programme area.
Our programmes are delivered through trusted and sustainable collaboration with civil society organisations, municipalities, universities, schools and informal groups across Norway and 25+ European countries.
Cross-cutting approaches
Across all programmes our approach is through:
- Volunteering
- Non-formal education
- Erasmus+ mobility
- Community engagement
- Cross-sector partnerships
- Sport and creativity
- Research and evidence
- Digital innovation
- Youth participation
- Environmental sustainability
What makes our approach unique is the combination of youth-led participation, international cooperation, evidence-informed practice and long-term partnerships between civil society, municipalities, universities and public institutions.
Youth Empowerment & Wellbeing
Direct work with young people — building skills, confidence, wellbeing and belonging.
We give young people practical tools for leadership, decision-making, active citizenship, employability and wellbeing through mobilities, volunteering, exchanges and non-formal education, while supporting their wellbeing and sense of belonging along the way. Volunteering runs through all of it — we see it as a direct pathway to wellbeing, belonging, participation and employability for young people, while contributing to strengthening the institutional and legal environment for volunteering in partner countries.
- Mobilities & exchanges (Erasmus+ KA152)
- Wellbeing & belonging
- Employability & soft skills
- Volunteering as a pathway to growth
- Sports and creativity
Democratic Participation and Civic Space
This is where we work with the systems around young people, not just with young people themselves: youth workers, municipalities, universities, and civil society partners. We build the capacity of youth workers to bring democratic practice home, open direct dialogue with institutions from the Norwegian Parliament to local municipalities, and turn single events into lasting structures — as we did in Elbasan. Youth-led dialogue on climate and environmental policy also has a natural home here, as part of the democratic issues we help institutions and young people address together.
- Youth-worker capacity building and mobilities
- Institutional dialogue with parliaments, ministries and municipalities
- Conferences and platform-building for lasting civic dialogue
- Emerging: youth voice on climate & environmental policy
Peace, Inclusion and Intercultural Dialogue
True to our name, this is where we do the work of bringing people together across cultural, social and ability-based divides — through non-formal education, non-violent communication, peace education, and shared everyday activity. In a society as diverse as Norway’s, and across a network spanning the Balkans, Eastern Europe and the Caucasus, this isn’t a niche concern — it’s foundational. Sport and other low-threshold shared activities are among our most effective, proven tools here.
- Coexistence, integration & inclusion of migrants and minorities
- Disability inclusion & support for young people with fewer opportunities
- Non-violent communication & peace education
- Sport and shared activity as tools for connection across difference
In practice: ACT-YOU disability-inclusion training and manual · FIDA FC weekly football, reaching young people facing economic or social barriers · open youth meeting space · cross-border study visits with partners across the Balkans, Eastern Europe and the Caucasus.
Media Literacy & Digital Citizenship
As disinformation, hate speech and online radicalization increasingly shape young people’s civic lives, we help them build the critical skills to navigate it and the confidence to participate safely and constructively online. This is a growing priority area for 2026 and on, building on the media literacy work already embedded in our democracy activities to date.
- Media literacy & critical consumption of information
- Countering disinformation and hate speech
- Prevention of online radicalization
- Safe and responsible digital participation
- Digital innovation & literacy
Green Citizenship & Sustainable Communities
Democratic participation and environmental responsibility are two sides of the same civic coin. This new programme area connects young people’s civic voice to sustainability — supporting youth-led dialogue on climate and environmental policy, and applying sustainable practices to our own conferences and exchanges. We are building this area in direct partnership with our existing network across the Nordics and Europe.