"Rebel with a Cause is a project that aims to explore the use of creative methods within youth work, strengthen the bond to organisations that are active in different art forms and show young people how art influences the way society is thinking. Giving young people - especially those with lesser opportunities - a voice is one of the core aims of any professional youth work. Therefore showing young people how you can state your opinion in a peaceful way and still influence society is of great interest to all youth workers. Also during the COVID crisis now in 2020 we do see that those young people that have various froms of expressing themselves and spending their time in a meaningful way are getting better through periodes of lock down then others. This project strives to give more young people more opportunities to express themselves and discover talents and interests.The youth work partners will choose from different forms of art/self-expression that are relevant and interesting for young people - circus, music, gaming and painting are on top of that list. With the support of experts from those fields they will engage young people (10 - 18 years) in experimenting with those art forms for expressing their ideas, needs and wishes around the overall common theme/topic ""Planet Earth"".The method used is “learning by doing” and developing new methods through finding out what works and what doesn´t for the young people. The activites are not just there for the fun of it, but should support classic youth work goals such as: - higher self esteem - youth participation - discovering hidden talents - inclusion and taking responsibly for our society The monitoring of the project will give an answer to the question; what works and why - what fails and why. This knowledge will be disseminated through:- a research report- a manual for youth work organisations who wish to implement some of those new methods- video tutorials on the methods that worked best for direct use of other youth workers.. The project will close down with a youth mobility where all four groups can show case what they did and exchange with peers (young people and youth workers alike) from other countries their experiences. After this closing event we will distribute the gained knowledege and products in multiplier events in all four participating countries and disseminate all our materials on local, national and Europen level e.g. by publishing a dedicated issue of our LOGBOOK E-Magazine for professional open youth workers on the topic."

<< Objectives >>Forms of mobile youth work/youth street work as well as outreach youth work/youth work in public spaces and online street work should be described, differentiating criteria determined, characteristics of urban and rural areas examined, positive and negative developments discussed, and potentials and further development pointed out.<< Implementation >>With a mix of social science methods, different practices are to be analyzed and described from multiple perspectives. From this, standards for quality and qualification are defined. Both youth worker and stakeholders from the community, as well as decision-makers from administration and politics are involved in the development process.<< Results >>Quality standards for special forms of open youth work in public spaces are developed and with quality and competence requirements defined. Internationally, the project contributes to further professional understanding among practitioners in open youth work, which concerns the quality development of practices and also new innovative forms of youth work, such as online street work.