 Let's talk about drugs. New methods of communication with youth is a project which aims to support youth workers, peer educators, outreach workers, specialists and experts working in the field of harm reduction on how to communicate with young people about drugs and how to find effective ways and methods as well as approaches to speak with young people on this topic. The objectives of the project are to conduct an assessment on the drug education situation in the countries and to prepare a regional report, to develop a manual on drug education for youth workers on how to communicate with young people on this topic, as well to produce online videos in each country based on the relevant topics which are related with drugs, to provide free series of trainings based on the manual and to share and discuss all the results of our project on national, regional and global level and of course to keep sustainability of this project and to spread the message with our partners. Within this project we did the regional assessment report on drug education that was namely served to assess the opinions and laws in each country on drug education that currently exist. It was done in three parts. So firstly we did the desk research, afterwards we did the online data collection aimed at youth workers and the young people that might be using drugs and we did the focus groups with different stakeholders such as decision makers, youth workers who are working in the field of drug use and then youth workers who are not from the field to assess their opinions on the quality of drug education provided in their countries. The main findings of the regional assessment report are showing that the interviews are not satisfied with the current quality of drug education provided in their countries and that that drug education should be based also on opinions of young people who might be at risk and young people who are and should be receiving those information. The challenge we see in Europe in terms of drug education is a thing that there is no one unified system. Of course we do know that there is no one size that fits all but at the same time what we see right now is that in each country or region or even in each school the will is being reinvented each time. Each school or district or city or each country they have their own systems which they create on their own and they are not really using the experiences gained in other parts of our continent. And that's why we decided to build a drug education manual that is being produced based on the experiences gained in six countries that are participating in this project. This manual will consist of three parts. The first one is focused on the basics so to say. Drug policy, what is harm reduction, basic terminology, what you need to know to start with the topic. Then the second part is focused on the youth specifically because we do use quite a bit of different methods when we want to talk about the drugs to young people. For example adults, people who use drugs for quite some time, teenagers or adolescents are a bit different and we do use different approaches. The education is also taking part in different environment than in other groups and so on. And the third part is focused on the communication methods, how you can communicate on this topic effectively to the people that you want to communicate to. I think the trainings are really practical and was necessary. I got really good feedback for participants from the first training. It was like fundamental basics of harm reduction and about the second it was about the ethics and communication with young people. I participated in those myself. It was like a really good experience and also what I'm happy about that. I made really good connection with some people with other organizations so it's not just building the partnership but also friendship. And the third training is about advocacy and making the videos. So I think it's also important to working in this field and working towards the change. We got a very good framework about how to do critical thinking, how to approach certain topics. Our role in this project was to teach young people about how to communicate with the media effectively and how to use video in advocacy or communication with young people. I understood some of what it means to communicate with the media. There are legal issues, there is the issue of stigma, discrimination. So it is very, very important to know exactly how to communicate, how to get your point across. In the second half of the training we were learning about video advocacy, how to make movies. So you're able to get out to a larger audience and to get out to young people with your messages. Not many projects are created anymore without some kind of visual output. So it is very important for activists from organizations that work in harm reduction to be able to create at least some visual content on their own. Which is exactly actually what this training provides, right? The role of our organization, smart foundation, as well as the other partners is to reach out as much people as we can. And that's why what we did is to organize multiplier events, to send participants to trainings, but also to find the proper experts, to find the proper partners, to connect them and to make them acquaint with all the knowledge that was gathered and was developed in the frame of this project.