In the ever-changing reality of the 21st century, youth work must be all the time staying up-to-date, innovative, and ready to provide attractive programs that are based on the needs and expectations of the target group - the young people and the society – making sure that young people have the necessary competences for active citizenship and employment as well as being fulfilled and happy individuals. Therefore, the institutions (youth centers, NGOs, free-time centers, etc.) and people who provide non-formal learning (NFL) opportunities for youth (youth workers, youth leaders, coaches, peer-to-peer educators, etc.) always need to be dynamic and committed to continue developing their professional competences so that they can reach and support the young people in a more quality and effective way. NFL approach has a lot of “power” in it to contribute to young peoples’ personal and social development. However, unfortunately far too often in the YiA and E+ projects and youth work at the local level we can observe that a lot of NFL potential is being wasted because the people who facilitate the learning process are not able to do it properly, and with good quality. For example, they miss a deeper understanding of the principles, characteristics, and values of NFL, and they are not aware of the underlying theories on learning and group dynamics (in particular, Experiential learning with debriefing techniques), which are very important for activity and program design and they often ask the youngsters do the activities just because they are fun and they like them, without clear intention on what should be the learning outcomes that these activities could produce. Facilitating NFL activities “looks” easy at the first sight and it seems that everyone can do it. Nevertheless, to be able to plan and provide GOOD QUALITY non-formal learning process, definitely requires proper preparation, deeper knowledge, a serious attitude, and many concrete skills. With this training course, we want to address this need and provide training to fill this competency gap. With this training course, we wanted to contribute to the improvement of the quality of youth work in different European countries by developing the professional competencies of youth workers to design and facilitate good quality non-formal learning activities for youth. The target group was motivated youth workers, youth activists, youth leaders, and peer-to-peer educators active at the local level and/or involved in international youth projects (for example, group leaders of youth exchanges) that represent the partner organizations in this project. According to the above-stated needs and general aim, we developed the following objectives: • Building understanding of differences in the concept of youth work and non-formal education in different national contexts • Identifying the competencies that could be effectively developed through NFL that are required for young people's active participation in social life and employment. • Exploring standards of good quality non-formal learning process and becoming more aware of various theories and tools of NFL approach that can improve the quality of NFL activities • Developing skills in designing and facilitating NFL activities (with emphasis on quality of debriefing) and receiving feedback and recommendations for improvement and further professional development as a facilitator of NFL activities • Providing a space to develop further ideas on using NFL activities with youth at the local level or through future projects of Erasmus+ -Developing concrete follow-up activities that later on will be implemented as part of this project.