This project idea started as a result of an organizational SWOT. A part of our team members were participating last year, in a project in Romania. During the project, we were doing a non-formal method where each organization had to do their SWOT. When we were presenting the results, we realized that we have one big problem in common: “We don’t manage to attract young people to volunteer in our organizations”. We felt that this problem is the root of many of our weaknesses and threats. Some of the weaknesses present in all organizations were: a low number of new volunteers, young people that don’t understand our ideas/call to action, big abandon rates (over 60% of the volunteers give up in the first 3 months), youth workers that give up in trying to find new volunteers. As for threats, we identified: no more active involvement in the community, youth who enter the job field very early in life (no more time for volunteering), more youth who don’t care about the community, our youth workers could leave the organization(they feel unfulfilled). We identified E+ as a great opportunity to raise our chances to attract new volunteers and to also keep them in our organization for a longer period of time. Other opportunities that E+ projects could bring are: more visibility in the community, youth being attracted to international projects, motivating our youth workers. All 6 organizations created this project in order to solve our common problems. We established a project team (see next question) and we started by applying a survey to all our youth workers. The questions were mainly about their work satisfaction, their needs, their perspective about the future, etc. We gather 84 responses and we manage to extract the following needs: • discovering more methods, campaign ideas on how to attract volunteers • a better communication between them and youth • knowing how to motivate youth • a stronger connection between colleagues • more interactive, engaging non-formal methods • learning more non-formal education methods • a new perspective on how to talk “the same language” with youth • learn to find young people needs • learn from peers • finding a way to adapt activities to the needs of the youth • finding out what do youth consider fun, interesting, engaging, etc. • the need for constant personal and professional development • the need to feel appreciated, important in the organization • be listen to, have the chance to express new ideas We continued by creating a questionnaire for young people and by reading studies on the subject of volunteering- details in the next question. As a final part of our study, we managed to conduct 2 focus groups/organization(1 with youth, 1 with youth workers) that gathered 135 people. That helped us have a more clear view and also gave us the chance to show them some of our ideas. They liked the ideas and some of them also started to get involved in writing the project. Together we created a problem and a solution tree for our project. After all that, we finally formulated our project aim: Develop youth workers competences in recruiting and motivating young people to become volunteers. Our project objectives are: 1. During the 8 months of the project, the 24 youth workers will develop their recruitment skills and manage to attract a minimum of 20 new volunteers for their local projects. 2. By the end of the mobility, the 24 youth workers will be able to implement a minimum of 5 non-formal methods that will help them motivate their volunteers and have an abandon rate of only 10% on a 6 months period. 3. By the getting involved in all project activities, the 24 participants will become more confident in their skill of working with young people, they will feel more motivated to promote volunteering and will become more emphatic with the needs of the young people.