"EllE is resulting from the current global challenges and local young needs. Advances in terms of human development has been uneven and deep challenges remain. Young people are at the frontline of the impacts of unsustainable models due to their marginalisation and higher vulnerability. They need to improve knowledge, skills, competencies and experience on SDGs, to empower themselves and to spread knowledge to the society to build a better world. EllE is based on young: as the main actor of the effective development and their full participation. The ""bottom-up"" approach from local to global, it is able to extend the results and network worldwide. EllE aims to foster participation and cooperation of youth for Sustainable Development in the three peninsulas of South Europe through: youth empowerment, fostering inclusive development and building resilient communities and nations. Objectives are to - Enhance Youth Skills to Help Advance SDGs - Motivate the youngsters to get active and empower them to turn their ideas into real social activities - Build capacity through exchange of ideas, information, experiences and good practices - Construct of EllE Network in a macro-region for young cooperation and joint actions - Raise awareness, promote an active dialogue and strengthen cross-sectorial cooperation among youth & stakeholders allowing for greater synergies across all fields on SDGs - Develop a new holistic (participative, collaborative, inclusive and accessible) youth empowerment model of implementing SDGs and strengthen young people's sense of initiative - Increase and exploit European cooperation in promoting & implementing SDGs through empowered youth. Participants are young people aged 18-24, including youth with fewer opportunities. There will be 900 young people directly involved and through the Platform this number will reach 3000. The project duration will be of 28 months due to the results and time necessary for their implementation. Activities Project management, monitor the progress and achievements of goals, dissemination and exploitation results. Data collection and research of good practice for empowering youth and raising awareness about SDGs. Creation and management of EllE Platform and social networks. Network Enlargement. Organization of online meetings, conferences, peer education events, local workshops, Participation Days, Final Conference, EllE campaign & management of interim, reports. Most of the activities will be carried out by the work online. For the purpose of strengthening cooperation, exchange of experiences and good practices,Transnational Meetings will be organized in: Italy, Portugal, and Greece. The methodological assumptions are - if we improve the skills and competences of young people with enhanced capacities and support then empowered young people take advantage of opportunities for their development and can act effectively as citizens, leaders, innovators and agents of change in their communities and abroad in partnership - if better youth will be engaged to influence decision-making then they will be the agents of change. For this reason, youth empowerment is both a means and an end of EllE. EllE methodology requires: - inclusive and full youth participation and leadership in all phase - an attitudinal, structural and cultural process whereby young people gain the ability, authority and agency to make decisions and implement change in their lives and in societies - Partnership capacities and skills to enable enhanced environment for young empowerment. The main result will be knowledge, experience and good practices about young empowerment on SDGs. Youth will gain: - cognitive, social, relational, ethical, pragmatic, strategic, transversal, healthy and political skills. - empowerment, self-esteem; critical thinking and building attitudes with an understanding of social trends, enhanced employability, improved career prospects. The tangible EllE results: Report of Good Practices on Young Empowerment on SDGs (level: local, national, European and global) Network to foster European young empowerment and cooperation Model EllE: Empower–learn–led–Expand Electronic platform on SDGs with OER material #YOUth4SDGs campaign Final Conference The 17 SDGs have a deep and multidimensional impact on all aspects of society. EllE which puts at the center of youth empowerment on SDGs can produce a long lasting multiplier impact in many dimensions. The participants: to be included as a proactive force in the participation of community development. Partnership: EllE educational empowerment methodology. Longer term benefits: youth protagonist of own future and contributing to community appreciation and wellbeing. EllE schemes into daily youth work and contribute to changes in social economical environmental and youth policies. This project will permit to all partners to gain experience in international cooperation, new good practices, strengthen own capacities and networking."