In practice, we often observe that youth workers in Czech Republic and Slovakia work with young people more intuitively, they do not have necessary theoretical basis and skills for high-quality preparation of the educational activities. As a result, their target group (young people) do not realize and cannot interprete results of their learning process. Therefore our main aim is to contibute to the quality increase in the non-formal education in the youth work in the Czech Republic and Slovakia mainly through raising the competences of youth workers. Educational objectives of the long-term training course: - to understand the logic of the educational activity and to apply this knowledge in practice - to independently plan, realize and evaluate non-formal education activities of high-quality, to analyze their development in participants' practice and by that to find out, how it is possible to improve these activities - to understand and apply skills connected to leading activities with a group of participants (group dynamics, presentation, facilitation) - to understand the constructive feedback and its contribution as a tool for self-development and organisation development, to know how to use it in practice - to understand, how to promote and disseminate results of their activities, to become aware of appropriate tools for promotion and to know how to use it for participants' activities - to reinforce motivation of participants to use non-formal education in their activities as a support for competence development of young people Objectives of the networking meeting - to understand the connection between youth policy and the youth work - to discover impact of the long-term training courses on the organisations of participants and to analyze their further needs - what would help to spread the impact on organisations more effectively - to analyze / reflect the quality of educational activities with close connection of the competences of the youth worker as an essential feature of the quality Activities: A1: Feasibility visit - detailed preparation made by the prep team A2: 1st phase of the long-term training course A3: 2nd phase of the long-term training course A4: networking meeting A5: 3rd phase of the long-term training course Participants of the training course will be youth workers, who have at least 2 years of experience in the field. The must have a motivation to inspire and educate themselves, to carry out their activities of high-quality, and they have support from their organisation. Balance of CZ-SK participants is planned - 14 from the Czech Republic and 13 from Slovakia; the final number of participants should be 27. Also, "graduates" of the previous long-term training course for youth workers, which was realised by part of the prep team, will take part at the networking meeting. Results and impact of the project: Considering the long-term training course, we expect s large impact in competence development of the youth workers, which will further influence mainly activities of their organisation, target groups of participants' activities, secondary target groups of the organisations, etc.