This project is a KA1 project consisting of 2 activities, one long-term European Voluntary Service activity and 1 short-term mobility of youth workers, both taking place in Kalamata, Greece and involving 2 organisation, Europe House Slavonski Brod, coordinator and sending organisation and K.A.NE. Social Youth Development, hosting organisation.Activity A1 will last for 10 months from September 2016 to June 2017 and in it will participate a young volunteer from Croatia, whereas activity A2 will last for 3 weeks, from 05.09.2016. until 25.09.2016. and will involve one youth worker/EVS coordinator from Europe House Slavonski Brod.Our main aim through this project is on the one hand to contribute to the professionalization and better networking of youth work organizations, especially in terms of working with young volunteers and to the improvement of the services offered to young people, especially young people with fewer opportunities, and on the other hand to promote EVS and volunteering in general as a means to support the development of skills and competences at both personal and professional level, by the young people that participate in them and the consequent strengthening of the young people’s position in the labour market, after the end of their EVS / voluntary activity.Our main objectives through this project are:- to foster the development of skills and competencies by the participants on both personal and professional level- to promote networking , build the capacity and improve the youth work services of participating organizations by the exchange of good practices- to promote wider recognition of the importance of non - formal learning and the skills and competencies acquired through this , especially in regards to improving the position of young people in the labor market ,- to highlight the significance of youth work activities- to promote volunteerism and active participation as a means for personal, professional and also community development.Throughout the project, in both activities, we will use mostly non formal learning tools and methods, with a well-structured working programme that is designed so as to meet the needs and expectations of the participants and support them in achieving the best possible learning outcomes.Finally, we hope that, through the wide dissemination of the project’s results, this project will add a cobblestone to the path towards the professionalism of organizations and individuals involved in youth work as well as towards the wider recognition of competences and skills gained through non-formal and informal learning activities.