The purpose driving the TC is that youth workers can improve their daily work by being more aware of themselves first, and, then, being able to boost those competences in the others. Soft skills are complex competences that include character traits and attitudes, emotional intelligence, flexibility and openness when being with others and communication tools that support people to reach successfully their personal and professional objectives through an appreciated and fair process. Non-formal education relies primarily on learners' involvement, and the educator's soft skills are keys for encouraging that involvement and making learners feel good and aware about the learning process. It means it is not enough to know how to do something and doing it, as caring the modality of implementing it plays a main role. The overall goal of the project is to empower 24 youth workers and 8 organisations (from Italy, Poland, Portugal, Turkey, Romania, Spain, Greece and Bulgaria) through gaining more awareness on their soft skills, raising the quality of their educational work, value their impact on the target groups and also their working atmosphere. The objectives are to encourage participants to: -Improve competences of youth workers according to the youth labour market interest and needs; as a youth worker trained in personal development is more responsible and able to respond to his/her target group needs, knows better how to cooperate with others and gains serenity facing the issues youth work encompasses. - Acquire/boost abilities like: coworking, self-awareness, creative problem solving, conflict transformation, effective and empathic communication, leadership and coaching. - Discover how different cultures, traditions, intercultural learning can enrich participants’ learning and professional experience to be applied in their own community with the purpose of a qualitative youth work framed in the wider value of the European Citizenship. - Understand how non-formal education can positively influence participants’ work in their realities. - Develop the ability to create new structure learning exercises and training programs. According to previous participation of trainers, partners and possible participants to several local, national and international youth projects, recurrent professional and personal problems for people enrolled in youth work are often related to a lack of soft skills. This lack constitutes the need that the TC is addressing, together with the interest of participants and partners to grow in this sense. More precisely, the surveys we made among partners and potential participants showed the priorities of the target group of the TC: coworking in a productive and peaceful environment, self-awareness to better address tasks and issues, creative problem solving when crisis occur, conflict transformation when a conflict pops up, leadership and coaching target groups, especially keeping them motivated. A particularly need and interest has resulted to be the work on effective and empathic communication, both with their colleagues and with target groups. The planning of the TC arises from all of these specific needs and interests identified by trainers, partners and possible participants in youth work and its implementation will bring participants’ working style to be more efficient, pleasant, open, collaborative as well as less energy consuming.