The short-term volunteer programme of IN THE PALACE ISFF offers 30 young people from 5 different countries the opportunity to get an inside touch of the organization and working process of three established short film events – 12th International Short Film Festival IN THE PALACE and its parallel programme in film training PLUG-IN. The project is carried out by Format SFF Foundation (EI: 2010-BG-9) coordinating and host organization. The duration of the project is three months and the volunteers arrive for one month (18th June – 18th July) in the city of festival location – Balchik, in order to take part in the preparation and implementation of the festival and all its parallel events. Volunteers are engaged in tasks related to the promotion of events, getting familiar with the atmosphere and the venues of the festival, and tasks, developing creativity in the fields of cinema, journalism, design and photography. Leading goal is to quickly adapt to the environment and to form a specific attitude for the upcoming events. Analysis and assessment of personal qualities and interests is also important, since based on them will be done the distribution in teams. In the phase of actual conduct of the events the tasks of the volunteers are related to specific details in organizing events. Young people are divided into teams, as many of them serve on a rotating basis in order to explore in more detail the organization of a major international event, and to acquire more knowledge and skills. After the event is over volunteers are enrolled in: support the departure of the official guests of the festival; implementation of post festival promotion campaign; self evaluation; dissemination of results. The aim of the project is to allow young people interested in cinema to participate in the organization of these important events, while having access to all screenings, master classes, international debates and networking possibilities which the festival and the parallel programmes offer to industry guests and participants.