“Creating Volunteering Circles” was a Contact Making Seminar implemented by InfinityGreece and partner organisations in order to enhance their cooperation in the field of volunteering and developing quality volunteering projects under the European Solidarity Corps Programme and beyond.The initial project idea was developed among our team members and was further supported by trusted partners that expressed their interest in establishing a common ground of cooperation and understanding of the ESC Programme in order to support young people in the best possible way. Should be mentioned here, that partner organisations included not only participants from their own organisation but also from their own local network bringing higher potential in the seminar for networking and knowledge exchange. The main issue that tackled us to apply and to implement this Contact Making Seminar was that even though improvements took place through the years in the field of organising international volunteering activities, organisations around Europe still regularly meet some challenges while implementing them. Although organisations are willing to provide everything necessary to the volunteers that they either host or send, they can often miss some practical skills and attitudes, or trustful partners that they will implement quality learning activities or that they could support and prepare young people towards their learning voluntary journey. That often leads to young volunteers not being well prepared in what to expect from a voluntary project and not being aware of their rights and responsibilities. Moreover, volunteers often face the lack of support during their projects and so the opportunity to transform these learning experiences into a development process. The CMS had as main aim to create an inspirational learning space for raising awareness of the value of volunteering for young people and for communities, to support organisations in developing a trustable network for future cooperation in the field of voluntary services and to create strong partnerships so to work together towards improving the quality of volunteering projects ensuring that the learning from this experience is clear, as well to increase the impact that those projects could have to the organisations. To achieve the above aim the team set the following objectives which were our guidelines through the implementation of our project and activities. - Bringing together youth workers implementing volunteering projects and other actions in their organisations and providing a meeting point for organisations to exchange information, to establish international partnerships and to support quality partnership development. - Understanding the concept of international volunteering and European Solidarity Corps. - Exploring how Erasmus + Key actions can be implemented in order to support volunteering - Finding ways to promote the European Solidarity Corps in the local area and to promote implementation of volunteering projects. - Raising awareness of the learning dimension in volunteering and provide tools for learning support - Offering a participatory program of activities enriched with a variety of methods - Developing new volunteering projects within the partner organisations and to exchange volunteering opportunities. The above objectives were met by using the fundamentals (tools and practices) of non-formal learning. The organisation team alongside with the facilitators of the CMS created a safe sharing and creative environment, promoting peer-to-peer learning as means of encouraging human and organisational capacity building within youth NGOs, developing and exchanging innovative tools empowering and supporting innovation in the youth field and promoting cross-sectoral cooperation. In CVC participants (coordinators, supervisors, project managers, mentors) had the opportunity to meet in person their potential future partners, discussed with them all potential blocks that might occur during their future cooperation, developed problem solving methods, planned together quality projects and explored their rights and responsibilities, upon which they made agreements. Last but not least participants understood the value of volunteering and together explored ways of supporting young people to their volunteering journey.