Young people are assets to development and potential agents of social change, yet youth exclusion, resulting from a variety or reasons, is widespread and infcreasing across Europe.

Issues such as lack of adequate education and employment, lack of assets and property rights, exposure to risky behaviours, violence and crime have driven groups of young people away from economic and societal resources.

Such exclusion translates to unbearable costs both to the individual, being deprived of access to important assets, and to society, having to finance the burden of marginalised groups instead of benefiting from they’re productive potential.

At present, many countries across Europe, and globally, lack an adequate policy response to these young people’s needs. And indeed, approaching young marginalised people is challenging – their exclusion from society and societal resources has created a feeling of rejection which leads to a lack of trust and unwillingness to take part in the framework of normative organisations. There is therefore an urgent need to seek for new innovative methods for approaching young marginalised people and for fostering their reintegration into societal circles.