In recent years, the importance and the role of playing in everyday life are being redefined: research has found evidence that play at work is linked with less fatigue, boredom, stress, and burnout in individual workers. Play is also positively associated with job satisfaction, sense of competence, and creativity. Studies show that when a participant receives a task that is presented playfully, they are more involved and spend more time on the task. Furthermore, playing develops social and soft skills, teaches cooperation with others, encourage trust, can heal emotional wounds… Social games have proven to be an effective tool to stimulate learning and create moments of deep reflection and understanding on a personal level. A well-designed and well facilitated game can leave an everlasting mark and change attitudes and behaviours. With this in mind, the project aims to equip youth workers and youth leaders with tools, frameworks and space to create and implement educational social games workshops that address social issues and can be applied in their environments. Our main objective is to teach the method of social games to youth workers. Acquiring new pedagogical competences will enable them to: - Diversify their field of action by learning about social games approach, project management and animation techniques - Raise the attractiveness and quality of their programs - Provide them with an innovative and flexible method that closely respond to the needs of individuals and address the needs of the youngster with fewer opportunities. Social games as a form of non-formal education are an ideal way to teach personal and social skills to young people as it is appealing and fun for everybody. Our project aim at introducing youth workers and youngsters to positive, healthy activities that encourages co-operation, strengthen confidence, develop communication skills, compassion and empathy toward others. The effect of playing social games is much more than just having fun, it is a process that can profoundly transform one’s vision of themselves and interaction with others and direct people towards a constructive and positive way of life. Having qualified staff is a crucial issue for youth organization and our partners allocate many resources on training their volunteers. Unfortunately, these same resources are diverted from educational program for the youngsters themselves. For this reason, we want to provide our partners with an opportunity to educate their staff, give them tools to reach different target groups and provide them with skills immediately applicable. We want to help them implement new educational program including social games within their own organization, thus improving their quality and reach. It is the duty of each youth organization to improve the quality and consistency of non-formal education. Being able to collaborate and create network of associations in order to share good practices is the key to do that. This is why we want to involve many different countries in our project, so that partners build their social capital and develop new projects. We believe that these projects are a key to more efficient youth work, and therefore a key to improving youngsters’ lifestyle, promoting the inclusion of people with disadvantaged backgrounds, empowering young people and enhancing their active citizenship across the European Union. In accordance with the general objectives of Erasmus+ program and the specific objectives of KA1, our project addresses the issues of: -Youth work quality and improvement. We want to provide pedagogical improvement for youth workers and their respective organizations and more recognition of youth work in general. -Active participation in society and labour market. We want to address directly or indirectly issues such as social skills improvement for target groups, health and well-being of young people, young people’s active participation, promotion of mutual solidarity and young people’s creativity. -European cooperation and awareness.