This project provides possibilities for youth to contribute their ideas to, and participate in, all the work of the WCC. One way is as interns (who spend a year working in one or another programme in Geneva), or as stewards (coming mainly to help out and learn at WCC governing body meetings).

The WCC internship programme balances work and learning. First, young people are provided with experience of work in an ecumenical field and equipped with tools to take this back to the local level. The second emphasis is on ecumenical formation and community-building for the group of interns to learn how to work in a multicultural and multiconfessional environment.

The stewards' programme includes an ecumenical leadership training seminar, and brings together a regionally and confessionally diverse group of young people for ecumenical formation and leadership development. 

Through the creation of a new "youth body", this project also encourages young adults to become more active in the life of the churches and the ecumenical movement. The new body is made up of 25 young people from the WCC governing and consultative bodies as well as from the broader constituency; it forms a critical think tank, and strengthens the role of youth in the WCC's decision-making processes.

Through the ongoing World Youth Programme, this project also continues to connect with ecumenical youth working at the local and regional levels, helping to build a global network of ecumenical youth working in close dialogue and partnership with each other.