The project Boot camp for Nordic Youth Workers was born in an Erasmus+ project in June 2015 where FFF and Fritidsforum met members from Setlementti and introduced their organizations and projects. What the organizations learned like so often before was how similar Nordic youth work is mostly built around similar principals and is facing similar problems. An idea was born to bring together experienced youth workers and researchers to create some common solutions which could be implemented in all of the Nordic countries to increase quality and synchronize methods to validate youth work. The goal of the project was to get experienced youth workers, organizations and researchers to gather best practices, knowledge and experience to create a basic training for youth workers, a validation tool for informal learning and a book that gathers the ideology behind the training, the methods and information about the validation tool.There are four participant organizations in the project that all have experience in international projects and trainings. The organizations all work with empowering youth workers to add quality to youth work in their home countries.The project takes place over three years and included national and international meetings and workshops. The project results included:- A basic training seminar work youth workers in the Nordic countries- A interactive validation tool for non-formal learning which is built upon the ideology of gaming- A book that maps up all the ideology and methods in the seminar as well as time management for the seminar and the tools needed- A webpage presenting the project and all of its results where people from all over the world can learn about the seminar and have seminars for youth workers in their home country- A international conference for youth workers where the project results were presented - A training of trainer’s seminar where youth workers where trained in how to train other youth workers with the ideology of the Boot camp seminar