This project brought together youth workers and staff from social-sport organisations to learn how to set up and run a social-economic hostel for disadvantaged young people. By visiting an existing youth hostel in Amarante (Portugal), participants were able to see in practice how such a model can combine accommodation, social inclusion and economic sustainability, while at the same time starting to build a European network around this concept with a concrete link to Antwerp.

The project aimed to equip participants with practical knowledge about the daily management, financing, social impact and youth involvement in a social-economic hostel model. At the same time, it sought to strengthen local and international partnerships between organisations working with disadvantaged young people and to lay the foundation for a future strategic partnership that could lead to the creation of similar hostels in Europe, with Antwerp as a potential pilot location.