A team of 25 trainers, facilitators, youth workers, projects designers and project managers, which in different ways are all “change-makers”, from organizations from Italy, Romania, Cyprus, UK, Croatia, Greece, Georgia, Moldova, Belarus, Azerbaijan, Armenia will gather in the international contact making seminar “CHAlleNGE – what does it take?”. All these organizations and their staffs are willing to focus the fascinating, challenging, and so much needed topic of change and the challenge that in it is implicit. Change which, you are aware or not, is always also a challenge, that’s why CHAlleNGE! The aim of the CMS is to create a cooperation between different organizations, professionals, volunteers, who want to share knowledge, experiences and most of all build future projects and partnerships about understanding what is change about in order to stimulate and make a positive change, in society or at the a personal level, understanding how to deal with change challenges, understanding how to be aware of change in order to make it a personal development experiences, a community transformative experience, and how to avoid to burn out at the professional, working level. The main purpose of “CHAlleNGE” is to strengthen the ability of change makers to bring about and sustain change processes in their communities. Objectives of “CHAlleNGE - what does it take” are: - create a stable cooperation among the partner organizations and their professionals and volunteers working on the topics related with “change” and his challenges; - design new projects and partnerships on the topic - raise awareness on challenges of change:, understanding of why changes happen, transition processes; how to maintain their motivation and passion to make a change about oneself and in the community - raising awareness on the need of creating, in a long term vision, a support system for change makers which can help them in dealing with change and avoid burnout, The contact making seminar will be based on non formal education/learning setting, with the use of the open space concept in order to ensure a full and active participation of every participant and every organization, to allow a proper individual process valuing it in a group dimension. The expected impact is to have every organization starting a “change-making-action” at the local level while the biggest expected result in a long term view is to design a training-course and a support system for change-makers, which can help them with change challenges.