At a time of diminishing resources, divided nations, Brexit, an increase in far right activity across Europe and fake news, there is a pressing need for young people to be able to think critically and act democratically. It is widely recognised that creativity and curiosity are vital skills for critical thinking, debate, campaigning and active citizenship. The arts allow people to express that which words cannot convey, and in doing so, they can find a human connection that transcends the superficial differences between them.‘Global Curiosity’ proposes a pan-European partnership designed to increase the amount of ‘global youth work’ happening in communities across Europe, and to increase the involvement of arts and cultural venues and creative practitioners in the delivery of global youth work. Our shared definition of ‘global youth work’ is: “an approach that enables youth practitioners and the young people they work with to discuss and understand global issues in the context of their youth setting. It aims to encourage a critical understanding of the links between personal, local and global issues. It seeks young people’s active participation in bringing about change towards greater equity and justice” https://think-global.org.uk/our-work/for-youth-workers/background/Global Curiosity is a strategic partnership that aims to generate more high-quality arts-based ‘global youth work’ across Europe. We want to engage more art and cultural organisations in youth work inspired by the UN's Sustainable Development Goals, helping to achieve the aims of the EU DEAR programme. This is a form of global development education that we are describing as 'global youth work' and we want to provide the methodology for delivering this work through the arts. Global Curiosity will address three key dilemmas connecting three interdependent sectors across three European countries. The three dilemmas are: 1.Arts-based youth workers are delivering ‘global youth work’ - BUT they don’t always recognise it as such2.Global Development Education Centres are delivering youth work, sometimes arts-based - BUT many of them don’t know about art and cultural organisations 3.Community-based youth-workers sometimes use art, and sometimes explore global development education ('global youth work') - BUT they don’t have a methodology or arts expertise Acting as organising principles, these three dilemmas will galvanise and mobilise an exchange of practice between youth arts workers, youth and community workers and global or development education workers in Greece, Poland and the UK. The dual aim is to support youth workers from a range of sectors to create a shared methodology for both embedding quality arts and cultural practice into global youth work, and to embed established global youth work techniques into arts and cultural projects.Creativity and curiosity go hand in hand and we are passionate about the power of both to create a better society for young people. . . so our objectives are:1: to encourage Global Curiosity between sectors, inviting the question, 'how does your sector deliver or contribute to global youth work?’ 2: to encourage Global Curiosity between three European Countries, inviting the questions: ‘what does global youth work look like in your country?’ ‘how do you or could you use arts techniques to contribute to global youth work in your country?’3: to develop Global Curiosity in young people, inviting the question, ‘how can we support young people to replace assumption with curiosity and develop their citizenship, creativity and ‘critical thinking’ skills?’This exciting pan-European partnership will invite 24 youth and community workers from a variety of sectors to take part in three international visits and practice exchanges. They will: - experience the techniques of the UKs’ Development Education Centres'; share their own understanding of and approach to global youth work; - experience the range of ways in which arts practitioners in other countries are also delivering global youth work through drama, dance, music, film, art and digital. They will also take part in a diversity training programme and build ‘consensus’ on what makes inclusive practice and principles. Their Global Curiosity journey will lead them to a place where they are international practitioner-leaders able to confidently articulate a shared methodology for how to deliver arts-rich global youth work. They will then be supported to test out this agreed methodology across 9 action research projects in their own countries benefiting more than 300 young people who: face economic disadvantage; are from communities with high numbers of refugees; or are at greater risk of never having eye-opening international experiences. Our impact will be to create 24 'Specialist Leaders in Global Curiosity', sharing not only through their own professional networks, but internationally across Europe via a network of disseminators.