“Every soup needs its special ingredient: are you able to find it?” will be a 5 day training course for professional youth workers and social workers. What kind of ingredients do we need for the SOUP: In the last few years Richter and the training partner (The Institute of Management and Psychology) have noticed the lack of interest and motivation of inexperienced participants. Some of them being simply travelers with low concentration level had an (negative) impact on trainings - unwillingness to learn usually influenced the quality of the trainings as well the learning process. We also had the impression, that the shared knowledge never reached the targeting groups, i.e. youth with fewer opportunities. For this reason, this training will be mainly addressed to professional youth workers and social workers, who are 30+. The other reason to choose this age and working group is that youth worker's and social worker's profession usually is left under-appreciated in societies, less paid in some countries, basically they are left alone to deal with challenges facing difficult target groups. The SOUP will be served to 16 motivated experience youthworkers from Italy, Romania, Georgia, Armenia, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Albania, Belgium, Lithuania and the Netherlands. What kind of SOUP will be served !!! We strongly believe, that when you choose to be in social field and work with the ones, who require it most – young people - sometimes you feel like left alone. Which brings to conclusion, that this category, according to Keijzer burn- out cycle (2006), goes under risk of losing the motivation if no needed support provided or right feedback given, at same time it can effect professional development. During the training participants will be given also an opportunity to reflect on values and aims of non-formal learning, strengthen their knowledge of new trends in youth and social work, deeper their understanding of how evaluation methods could be used to reach out to traditionally excluded groups, also develop skills and strategies to be more responsive in dynamic environments. The training will cover such topics as theory and practice of evaluations, new aspects of youth work, adaptation of evaluations and observations as tools for learning, using games as non-formal learning tool, etc. The methods employed over the 5 days of the training will be visual presentations, group work, group discussions and brainstorming, presentation of the Erasmus+ programme, organizing a study visit and meeting with local officials, workshops and round tables and panels discussions. While the whole programme of the training course has been designed in cooperation with the partner organisations such that in combination the activities work together to ensure that this impact is achieved. The aims of the training are: to explore the topic of inclusion the work practice with youth; to explore and investigate the profile of youth with fewer opportunities; to advocate for the techniques of non-formal learning; to build up a network in the field of inclusion of youth with fewer opportunities; to explore the aims and objectives of the Erasmus + and to develop cooperation across Europe and enhance European networking. The objectives of this project are for participants to learn about youth work practice across Europe; to explore the theory and practice of evaluations and observations; to understand the theory of game playing; to develop practical, analytical thinking, reasoning and logic skills in leading games with young people; to have a good working knowledge of the Erasmus+; to encourage reflection on one’s own learning; and to accommodate diversity of readiness, experience and backgrounds. What kind of impact will the SOUP have on the participants to have gained knowledge about youth work and the practise of Erasmus+ projects in different parts of Europe; to have developed a shared understanding of the theory and practice of games in youth work settings; to have learnt techniques of non-formal learning with young people and to be able to use them in their own organisations; to have gained a good working knowledge of the EU Erasmus+ Programme and to have developed new partnerships and projects together. Our expected outcome is that participants will share their knowledge on real-life cases they will prepare in advance, as well as their knowledge of working methods. We will also encourage them to create an ask-and-answer platform, which will provide a constant communication between participants on case studies, working methods, subjects, materials, etc.