NEEDS The idea for this training course was born during the course organized in Sint Maarten by one of our local partners. Several people working on this application were part of that training and created this project as a follow-up activity that is tailored to their needs. The main conclusion was that there is a lot of young youth workers, who have great ideas and motivation, but they are lacking the knowledge, skills, and experience to organize such activities. Since in many European countries, including some participating in this project, there's no official university for youth workers, people who decide to spend their life doing youth work, often don't have a chance to get these necessary skills that would help them in their work with the youth. This training course addressed that issue. OBJECTIVES The main objective of the project was: 1) Informing and Training 23 youth workers about the 8 competences from the "Competence Model for Youth Workers", with the aim of raising the quality of their youth work. The competences on which focused during the training were: - Facilitating individual and group learning in an enriching environment; - Designing programmes; - Organising and managing resources; - Collaborating successfully in teams; - Communicating meaningfully with others; - Displaying intercultural competence; - Networking and advocating; - Developing evaluative practices to assess and implement appropriate change. Other objectives of the project were: 2) To support youth organizations in increasing the capacity of their work and thereby - foster quality improvements in youth work through international cooperation. 3) To Identify and address the challenges that youth workers face in their work. 4) To create space for sharing knowledge and exchanging experiences and good practices with the atmosphere of common understanding between youth workers representing different cultures, working styles, and coming from 12 different organizations. 5) Increasing the knowledge and skills of youth workers from the 6 European countries, with emphasis on youth workers from small and medium-sized NGOs, newly established associations, and informal groups of young people active in youth work The final goal of the project was to: 6) To establish long term partnership among partners on this project and to start a cooperation, organizing project with this topic every year in a different country and training hundreds of youth workers in the years to come.