The objectives of our project was to increase the level of quality of international youth exchanges through developing youth leader/youth worker competence set for being a group leader carrying out a participatory youth exchange. Our goals were: - To foster mutual understanding of the group leader’s role and responsibilities in a youth exchange project throughout the whole project cycle; - To equip participants with a set of tools for raising participation, carrying out preparation, follow-up and evaluation with groups of youth; - To equip participants with a set of tools for implementation of non-formal learning sessions, reflection and support of young people during a youth exchange project; - To exchange best practices and develop ways of working with difficult situations, specific target groups and taking up an inclusive approach as a group leader; - To empower participants to take up a group leader’s role in an international youth exchange; - To give space to develop at least 4 future cooperation projects that will enable participants to apply received learning; - To develop a set of group leader’s skill-sheets for raising awareness of the opportunities; Also, with the training course we were seeking to develop members of our organizations, which would lead to the overall raise of the capacity of organizations to work with youth exchanges including minors, youth at risk, more diverse groups etc. The training were linked to the overall aim of Erasmus+ KA1 to foster quality improvements in youth work through raising the quality of youth exchange projects implemented by partner organizations and developing an open educational material for group leaders. The training was designed to equip participants with tools that can be transferred to daily work with young people and the learning outcomes of this training programme was foreseen to be disseminated in the youth field through the use of methods, sharing the approach and project results.