Providing and receiving training represents some fundamental steps for the individual and collective growth of young people. AIM Labs give the possibility to challenge young people, sharing experiences and competences, acquiring  good practices to make a step forward toward their cognitive independence.

The four principles of AIM Labs philosophy are:
Accessibility
AIM aims to promote access to education and training for all young people: for those who want to train other young people, in order to share their competences in a peer learning system, but often find barriers in schools, in the education providers and in institutions due to the lack of experience or to their non-formal approach to education; but also for those who want to be trained without having to afford unbearable costs and timetables incompatible with the needs of young people.

Sustainability
According to young people and trainer's experience, costs and length of the courses are set in order to fit their needs of enrolment and attendance: sustainable prices, minimum length in order to manage to study being also a precarious worker.

Quality
Trainers curriculum, their active involvement in the course preparation, the sharing of the association's values, and the low number of participants per class (max 10), the non-formal education approach and the project design of the labs, underline the attention that AIM put to provide low cost training with high quality standards.

Concreteness
We might sum up labs philosophy with the sentence: “Certification? No Thanks.” The train of thought of all AIM's labs is the realization of a concrete final product by the end of the course. AIM is strongly convinced of the importance of learning by doing, team work, interpersonal dynamics, cooperative intelligence, in order to reach the goals with an high level of sharing and innovation.