Currently, 1.8 billion of the global population is aged between 15 and 29. While the proportion of youth in Africa is growing rapidly, in Europe it is declining, increasing the burden on young people as they move into work to maintain health and welfare systems. However, young people’s role as a force for global development is undermined by problems of inequality and unemployment. Alongside lack of access to education and employment, their participation in formal politics by is declining. However, civic participation through digital activism, protests and volunteering is growing. The YIPPEE project aimed to introduce the Digital Storytelling (DST) methodology to youth and social workers as a way to engage youths, develop their talent management through job counselling, and tackle inequalities by raising awareness towards global education. In this way, this project gravitates towards three distinct yet significantly interconnected applications for DST: for personal empowerment, job/career counselling, and heightening consciousness towards global issues and the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). While at first glance the two may seem unrelated, DST has a profound way of affecting people’s perception of the world around them. For young people, this is a particularly significant means to bring grand and far-off issues close to home.The project was to target young people from more disadvantaged backgrounds who lacked other opportunities to take part in educational trainings, presenting opportunity for them to meet and work with young people from very different parts of the world, to learn new skills, share experiences, deconstruct stereotypes, become aware of contemporary social and political issues, open their minds, change attitudes and stimulate active participation.The project comprised two mobility trainings: one for youth workers which took place in Budapest, Hungary between 3-9 April 2018 and one for youth participants in Baile Tusnad, Romania between 14-20 July 2018 and one Capacity Building activity between 27th January – 2nd February 2019 in Benin. The core elements of the two mobilities were: Team Building, Introduction to SDGs, Digital Storytelling, Job Counselling, Communication and Action, and finally Youthpass and programme evaluations. Participants were selected through an open call by the same criteria based on the mutual agreement of the partners.The CB Activity in Benin introduced participants to the DST methodology, and the SDGs with educational excursions to experience first-hand the impacts of the SDGs by seeing the farmlands and interacting with local youth organisations.Participants shared that the experience made them richer and enabled them to gain skills and perspectives. The project received many positive comments, and instilled empowerment within the participants to succeed in the job market and act on issues in today’s world.The partnering organizations could expand their methodological inventory with new educational approach and tools and also obtained new local and global partners and participants through the local and international activities.The project coordinator: Anthropolis (Hungary) and the partners: ATA (Romania), Credi-Ong (Benin), Global Link (UK) and Melting Pro (Italy) held 22 dissemination events following the mobility events and the capacity building activity.The outputs of the project are: an on-line DST methodological platform, DST Guidelines, 2 training curricula and a number of DST films of participants, news articles, a short documentary film and a journal article.The partner organisations extensively disseminated the results and publicised the project through their own websites and in social media (Facebook, Instagram and Twitter) and the project´s very own website: http://storycenter.info/ and Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/Create-Share-Listen-Digital-stories-around-the-world-309926976294303/