International training course "Train Your Non-Formality: Sport as a Tool for Non-Formal Education" will gather 28 participants from Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus and Georgia. The project seeks to increase the quality of youth non-formal education through sports for inclusion of marginalized youth. The main method, which will be explored during this training course is SPORTS. We seek to develop new methodological approaches through sports, where sports will be an attractive tool for various youth target groups with an aim to develop their personal and social competencies. Partners organizations from Latvia, Lithuania, Georgia and Belarus are focusing on working with young people from rural areas and Russian-speaking communities. Most partner organizations are based in small towns, where many young people from various rural areas around are passive, or active in a destructive way (bullying and doing sports for greater bullying). The aim of the training course will be achieved by developing competencies of sport coaches/youth workers in applying non-formal education methodologies through sports when working with youth groups (especially young people having marginalized backgrounds). The specific objectives of the project are: - To explore theory and methodology of youth non-formal education and review it’s practical application through sports; - To share various practices of working with marginalized youth by using various methodologies, with an aim to widen sport coaches and youth workers methodology “toolbox”; - To develop the practical methodology of various sport activities as a tool for non-formal education of young people, especially those having marginalized backgrounds; - To promote EU “Erasmus+” programme as a resource for national and international youth non-formal education activities through sports; - To build partnerships among sport coaches/youth workers from participating countries and develop ideas for potential educational projects through sports for inclusion of marginalized youth in the frames of “Erasmus+” programme. The target group of the project are sport coaches and youth workers active locally willing to increase their capacity to use sport as a tool for non-formal education helping young people to develop personal and social skills required for better inclusion and social integration. The trainer team will be following non-formal education methodological principles and humanistic educational philosophy, experiential learning methodology. Balance between theoretical inputs, practical tasks, skill development and linking the learning of participants to their reality will be assured. The working methods will be: Workshops, Theoretical Inputs, Presentations,Group activities (group tasks/exercises), Field tasks, Small working groups, Buzz groups, Personal, Group, and Meta Reflections, various Simulations, Sport Games and Activities. During the training course participants will learn how to apply non-formal education principles when working with young people ensuring that SPORT is the tool for youth work, but not the goal itself. Participants will develop practical methodology of various sport activities as a tool for non-formal education of young people. By sharing experience sport coaches and youth workers will learn from each other new theories, approaches, educational methods and sport activities in order to implement them in daily youth work practice. Participants will understand what partnership is, how to organize and implement international projects within Erasmus +. New partnerships will be established on personal and organizational level. These partnerships will serve as a main platform for international youth cooperation.