Olde Vechte as a youth center has been dedicated to empowerment of young people for the past 60 years. Throughout these years, the organisation continuously supported individuals coming from a variety of disadvantaged backgrounds - volunteers, youth, and young professionals - to grow and learn, and to extend their horizons beyond formal education systems. In our work, we trust that each person is capable of independently navigating their own experience, and this is where most of the learning happens. At Olde Vechte we apply Constructivism (Piaget, Vygotsky) approach and context based learning methods. These are high quality practices supporting youth to exceed in their growth and build life that they desire. Our motivation to implement this project is to share these practices further, especially that we see the current challenges that youth work is facing across Europe: 1: high demand for qualified professionals; 2: need for professional training opportunities; 3: declining variety and quality in non-formal education. This is why with this project we aim to: - offer a high quality training opportunity for youth workers in the partners’ teams and networks, so that they can become excellent professionals; - address the missing quality in youth work, provoking change on the grassroot level - by working directly with youth workers. HOW? HTWTLP creates a dynamic learning experience where youth workers come to refine their ideas for non-formal learning programs, that either they already work with, or want to work with. They come to learn how to improve the quality of their activities through implementing CONSTRUCTIVISM (Piaget, Vygotsky) as a highly effective approach in non-formal learning. They train how to base learning activities on the context, instead of delivering content. In the Constructivism theory, the learners are actively building their understanding and skills by experiencing and reflecting on their experiences. Their learning is based on their pre-existing knowledge, and it happens through interaction with others, best if in an authentic context. As a result, learners construct their own learning, practice hands-on, understand deeper, engage significantly, and construct takeaways that serve for lifetime. The role of the youth worker is to facilitate or coach learners, ask questions, challenge thinking, help to make connections, share experience. Throughout the project youth workers learn how to use Constructivism to build activities, so that input of the content is maximised by the learners. What’s more, training in the Netherlands is intended to serve as an example of a context based learning event, so that youth workers can step into the role of learners and build their expertise on the knowledge they already have. General objectives of the project are to: - train 33 youth workers from 10 different European countries; - reinforce non-formal and informal learning quality across Europe by training Constructivism approach and context-based non-formal learning methods; - improve and apply non-formal learning programs with Constructivist approach and context-based learning, so that the content of the activities can be maximised by young learners; - organise a 7 day long professional development activity; - foster international collaboration and exchange best practices between 10 youth organisations from across Europe; - to disseminate and spread Constructivism and context-based learning as high-quality and effective non-formal learning practices; - to evaluate the impact of the training through Youthpass, evaluation surveys and impact surveys of 33 youth workers and 10 youth organisations.