INCREASING COMPETENCE, DEVELOPING CAPACITy – project summary “Increasing competence, developing capacity” is a training course that will take place in Riga, Latvia between 05-12 of July 2015. TC will gather 30 participants + 1 trainer + 1 facilitator + 3 support staff from 10 countries: Latvia, Turkey, Spain, Lithuania, Hungary, Estonia, Portugal, Malta, Italy and Poland. Participants for this TC will be chosen among youth workers, youth leaders and activists, willing to increase their awareness in order to interact more effectively with young people with fewer opportunities. The main aim of this TC is to increase competencies of youth leaders/workers who are working with youngsters with fewer opportunities, providing different tools for empowerment and employability. Youth employment, soft skills, inclusion, managerial and leadership skills will be important concepts that will be explored during the TC. The basic objectives of this TC are: to help participants to collect new knowledge in specific range of themes so useful for their professional grows and proper work; to stimulate youth workers to implement more successful project that involve young people with fewer abilities in order to make community more inclusive; to underline the importance of intellectual capital and the necessity always to develop it, and to transfer this knowledge to other youngsters. In spite of gaining new knowledge, our participants will have many great opportunities to take part in discussions, debates, share and collect new pieces of experience and skills. This TC will be based on methods of non-formal educations and everything will be done to provide comfortable, interesting and effective working and leisure atmosphere. Every participant is supposed to be surrounded with young people from diverse cultures and nations, to get new knowledge, to improve his/her professional level as youth worker in the field of social exclusion, to learn about the features and opportunities of the Erasmus + program, and will be involved in other positive options.