Training course “Collab Lab” will take place in Bratislava from the 2nd to the 8th of October 2014 and it is organized for 18 youth workers, coordinators of youth associations, youth leaders, and local volunteers from youth associations across Europe. Training course examines the growing movement called "collaborative consumption" or "sharing economy", and transforms it into anti-crisis creative tools with high social and environmental aspect which improve the quality of local and international youth work. Participants expand their horizons, discover new ways to manage their projects, create new non-formal education activities, give visibility to their projects, and seek funding possibilities provided through CC platforms. Thanks to participation in this course youth associations will be able to implement tools of CC such as crowdfunding, exchange markets, foodsharing, exchange gallery, time banking, car and bike sharing, coworking, etc. into their regular activities. The objectives of the training are the following: • To raise awareness of the existing platforms and initiatives of collaborative consumption (CC) and ways to apply them in youth work through • To promote values of participation and active citizenship through the CC • To combat poverty and social exclusion using new tools to alternative consumption • To create a community of youth workers active in protecting the environment, studying the possibility to create a European network • To encourage the use of new technologies on youth work and to exploit internet resources • To match youth workers from different countries through coexistence and teamwork • To build and strengthen partnerships between organizations across Europe The methodology will be based on non-formal education, integrating highly innovative elements based on CC trough workshops. case studies, presentations, roles playing, experience sharing. Outputs of training course will be spread to more youth associations to distribute the idea of CC to more users.