It’s hard to overestimate the importance of youth work in Europe and the impact it has been making on the young people’s lives and their empowerment, fostering active citizenship and participation, social inclusion of youth as well as active promotion of common European values. Youth workers, being an integral part of this process and often acting as a role model for their target groups, need to meet a list of requirements from keeping up with the changes of an advanced and progressive society we live in and tracking and addressing the social issues arising in the community to acquiring new skills and competences in order to raise the quality of the services they provide. Erasmus + Programme and the Mobility of Youth Workers provides a unique opportunity for professional development of youth workers and establishing contacts with the colleagues all over Europe and beyond, gaining new competences relevant for today’s youth work as well as raising awareness about crucial issues of nowadays. Without doubt, youth, its development and well-being are at the bedrock of such activities. Yet, it’s essential to pay attention to the well-being of youth workers as well. Numerous researches show, that educational and social work sector have some of the highest number stress-related illnesses: acc. to European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Condition “stress was most prevalent in the education and health sectors, as well as in agriculture, hunting, forestry & fishing (28.5%). The largest group of employees who suffered from anxiety at work were those employed in education and health (12.7%)”https://osha.europa.eu/en/tools-and-publications/publications/reports/TE-81-08-478-EN-C_OSH_in_figures_stress_at_work. Undoubtedly, it can result in an adverse impact on young people. Thus, according to european trade union committee for education “the impact of these illnesses on workers in education can result in the adoption of dogmatic and authoritarian measures, making the job routine and taking little initiative, absenteeism, depression and stress, requesting a transfer, and leaving the profession” ( see pages 82-84 https://ec.europa.eu/assets/eac/education/library/study/2013/teaching-profession2_en.pdf). There’s no European research showing the impact of stress exclusively in youth work, therefore we with our partners conducted a survey among volunteers and staff members of our organisations ( among 50 youth workers) and found out that, around 52% of respondents experience stress on a daily basis, 67%- have thought of leaving the field at least once due to the stress it creates, 32% - feel under the pressure financially due to instability of work ( dependence on grants and donations). Luckily, EU policy recognises stress as one of the main occupational risks (53%) https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:52014DC0332&from=EN and is already taking measures in addressing this issue. Therefore we believe that it’s a burning issue at the moment and with this project we’d like to address the issue of stress among youth workers and focus on development of their well-being in order to address the quality of educational activities they organise. Furthermore, we would like to train youth workers on usage of stress-management tools in their work with young people in order to created a balanced learning environment for them and provide ready-to-use copying mechanisms for challenging life situations. Objectives: identify the stress factors which influence youth workers in partner countries equip participants with the theoretical knowledge on the nature of stress provide educators with the stress-management tools for personal everyday use ( physical tools, art tools) to learn how mindfulness can contribute to eliminating stress and learn about MBSR ( mindfullness based stress reduction)techniques to acquire concrete skills in time-management and learn how it can contribute to dealing with stress to learn about stress-management tools which can be used in work with young people in order to address their study-related stress and develop their emotional intelligence; To train youth workers in using stress-management tools in youth work in different contexts to share good practices in stress management in education and youth work The project contributes to the following specific objectives of the Erasmus +: -foster quality improvements in youth work, in particular through enhanced cooperation between organisations in the youth field and/or other stakeholders;