Volunteering service for young people is an efficient means of professional and personal development. Skillful and ethusiasic mentor can give an important contribution to maximize learning benefits. Eight days training course "Up to a Challenge?" is designed for support staff of EVS volunteers and will provide the opportunity to deepen knowledge, skills and competencies relevant in mentoring. Overall aim of the training course is to increase the quality of EVS activities through development of competencies of mentors and those who are directly involved in the support system around EVS volunteer on the hosting side. Participants will develop skills that are important to be efficient and able to provide required support and guidance to volunteers. The training will start with discussion on educational nature of volunteering service, on roles and characteristics of a good mentor and continue with workshops and simulations, during which the participants will improve their knowledge about cultural adaptation and cross cultural,communication processes, trust building, will develop coaching skills, communication ¿kiíís* and emotional intelligence. Program includes meeting volunteers and representatives of organizations working with EVS program in Macedonia and facilitates sharing experiences and best practices among mentore from different countries. Special emphasis will be putisti cr. spproach to volunteering service as means of including young people with fewer opportunities and unemployed young people to whom EVS might be a chance to learn new occupational skills and gain new carrier opportunities. The methodology used in this training activity is based on experiential learning, dynamic working methods will be applied that require active participation. The project involves 33 participants and experts from 14 organizations working with EVS or planning to develop volunteering service projects within 2010 - from host country Macedonia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Albania, Montenegro, Turkey, Estonia, Lithuania, Portugal, Poland, Romania, Bulgaria and Greece.