The PBA aims at creating a platform where the partners will have the possibility to debate and to exchange best practices on youth issues on equal basis by bringing together youth workers, youth leaders and young people from the SEE and the EU. The overall objective is to further develop partnership on youth projects in general, and EVS projects in particular, among the participant's countries. Moreover, it aims at improving participants' skills and abilities on youth employment in order to better face the contemporary labour market.The PBA will take place in Shkodra, Albania, from the 07th until the 13th of Mars 2011 involving participants from 7 countries (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, France, Greece, Italy and Serbia,) in the following activities:- Training on the Youth in Action programme, with a specific focus on Action 2 - EVS- Workshops focused on the tools and relational competences needed to support projects at local level- Simulations and role-play games to familiarize with the rules and resources to be managed in EVS project in order to support EVS volunteers and to foster relationships between EVS coordinators and mentors in order to establish a mutual support network during the Implementation phase- Intercultural activities are foreseen to promote mutual understanding of the different cultures involved.The overall outcome is the creation of a network of youth organizations, at the beginning only among the participant's organization but the participants will be trained to enlarge the network. The core theme of the network will be the common interests, for instance youth issues, and the cooperation on common projects to be developed in the near future, contributing so at the development of a powerful interconnected civil society active in youth issues.