''Empower YOUth!'' is a youth exchange which aims at building confidence, raising self-esteem and identifying the main characteristics and personal qualities needed nowadays to reduce youth unemployment and encourage creativity and entrepreneurship. The youth exchange will be held in Ptuj, Slovenia from 3rd to 12th October 2014. and involve 30 participants coming from Slovenia, Croatia, Romania, Cyprus, Poland and Lithuania. In order to reach the project’s objectives we have planned several activities (training sessions, intercultural evening and intercultural programs) that will guide the participants through the process of getting specific competencies. These will enable them to create their own self-development process but also to support other youngsters that are facing difficult economic and social exclusion situations to start a self and social development process, in order to overcome them. The activities will be implemented with the support of non-formal education methods and tools (games and exercises, group presentations, workshops, debates, role plays, forum theatre, open space, open café, outdoor activities, team building).