CI has developed and piloted innovative and sustainable approaches (“Federal Model Projects”) to prevent and counter youth extremisms / fundamentalism, polarisation, and violence and to promote capacity building in view of a resilient civil society. Special emphasis is placed on developing methods for high-risk, difficult to engage populations that cannot be reached with existing interventions. Methodologically, CI has developed an approach of youth-cultural social intervention which combines elements of civic education/ pedagogical anti-bias training, psychologically based open-process group-work, and peer-learning in youth-cultural activities (including Breakdance, Skateboarding, Slam Poetry, Techno-DJ-ing, Digital Music Production, Comic and Graffiti, Visual Design and others) – also discussion groups about the young peoples’ preferred fictional media narratives, as films and songs/lyrics (the “Fair Skills”-project).