<< Objectives >>Being a youth workers is very rewarding, but often not an easy task. It requires not only knowledge regarding the specific thematic area we conduct our activities in, but also many other skills. Unfortunately, even though we do as much as we can to develop them (also by learning from our failures and mistakes), it is not rare that while working with young people, we have seen our shortcoming and things we could have done better. This is why, the idea of the training, that would allow to build and develop skills that are crucial for being an effective youth worker, appeared.In order to enable youth workers to conduct higher standard and more effective non-formal educational activities with young people, it was needed to develop their:- confidence and skills by conducting new, more engaging form of activities,- skills in responding for situations currently foreseen as difficult or challenging,- ability to respond to questions (that are currently often seen as difficult and problematic) in a way that would contribute to develop youth’s critical thinking and interest in a topic;- other skills that are useful for youth workers, which they feel they currently lacking (public speaking, group management, team building, facilitating discussions).The project was linked to the following objectives of Erasmus + for youth workers:- improved competences;- better quality of their work and activities in favour of young people;- increased motivation and satisfaction in their daily work.<< Implementation >>The main activity was the training for youth workers that was conducted in Murzasichle (Poland) between 29th September - 6th October 2022 (plus two days of travel).31 participants of the training (29 youth workers plus 2 trainers) from 9 countries (Albania, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Italy, North Macedonia, Poland, Spain, Ukraine). Participants from Lithuania could not participagte due to last-moment private issues (more details have been provided in the report section dedicated to challenges and changes).<< Results >>Thanks to participation in the training “Being a youth worker” participants have learnt (and practised) skills needed to feel more confident in being a youth workers, and to react to situations that happen during their educational activities, which they had perceived by them as difficult. Thanks to this, they are more open to use a new, more interactive forms of non-formal education activities, instead of presentations, which are not widely used also because they are seen as ‘safe’ (as one of the responders put it: “I just tell them how it is, so they usually don’t ask”). Thanks to this, and thanks to feeling more confident due to newly gained skills, youth workers have increased their ability to create an environment conducive to asking questions by young people, questioning facts and opinions, and in turn – developing their critical thinking. They have also increased their ability to respond to questions (that are currently often seen as difficult and problematic) while maintaining friendly and open relations with youth, what is possible thanks to remaining calm (instead of panicking or hiding that they do not know the answer, or avoiding such situation) and ability to search for answers together with participants. They have also developed other practical skills they identified as crucial to improve to be more effective youth worker (public speaking, group management, team building). Overall, they are able to conduct more effective and interactive educational activities, and more interesting for young people. They have also created their own list of skills they want to develop as a youth worker in a long term, as well as an action plan (with the method of small steps), what together with inspiration and sources for further work, they are more aware and motivated for future and regular improvement as youth workers.It have also had a positive impact on organizations (which, thanks to better prepared and more effective youth workers, are able to conduct higher quality educationala ctivities with young people), but also for young people themselves (as they can participate in more interesting, more interactive non-formal edicational activities, conducted by betetr prepared youth workers).