Aim of the training course is to provide youth workers with competences and tools for implementing high quality, effective volunteer management system and raising their skills for creating their own local/international short/long-term volunteering programs with young people. With this training course we aim to increase social skills and personal development of participants and raise awareness of importance and values of volunteering.

Topics of this training course include:

gaining competences needed for successful volunteer management in projects, activities and everyday life of organizations on local and international level;

exploring views and attitudes towards volunteering;

effects of volunteering on local community;

improving volunteer system and conditions of volunteers in voluntary projects and activities;

experience and learn how to work in various teams;

expanding and sharing knowledge and sense of interculturality;

improving communication, conflict management and resource management;

sharing ideas for projects with the group and getting feedback and support.

The training course aims to support the quality development of non-formal education activities in the youth work through the development of competences of youth workers for  preparing and implementing workshops,  trainings, seminars and similar activities organized for youth on local and international level.

Aims of this training course are:

• Provide youth workers with  set of practical skills and attitudes for successful preparation and implementation of non -formal activities
  
• Develop participants’ competence to design, run and evaluate non-formal education and training activities at organizational and international level, based on an adequate needs analysis using appropriate methodology
  
• Provide young people with competences to be able to work individually or in teams as presenters, facilitators andtrainers
  
• Introduceparticipants  to  main  features  of  non-formal  education,  different  learning  styles  and  different  approaches  in learning
  
• Increasing participants’ abilities to raise and promote positive social values through non-formal education
  
• Explorethe notion of quality in non-formal education and training activities and how to apply it
  
• Reflect on the ethical, professional and social implications of working as a trainer in non-formal education
  
• Support participants to learn how to guide and facilitate different processes (group, intercultural, inclusive) in non-formal education settings
  
• Support participants to learn how to manage a non-formal education and training project effectively;
  
• Reflect on the contribution of non-formal education and training to the development of a quality youth work
  
• Providethe participants with space for practicing the gained skills
  
• Contribute to personal development of participants and improve quality of civil society projects and initiatives
  
• Provide space and facilitate networking and future cooperation between participants and their organizations
  
• Secure space for exchange of different experiences, approaches, practices, methodologies and tools
  
• Facilitate and provide conditions for future cooperation between participants and their organizations and promote Erasmus Plus programme as valuable tool for mobility and education.
  
• Provide practical understanding and experiential learning of the topic and promote values of non-formal learning through different innovative methods
  
• Ensure safe, engaging, interesting and goals oriented learning process of participants
  
• Provide support for further follow up activities of participants within the project “Practical Guide Through YOUth Work”.