The volunteer programme of IN THE PALACE ISFF offers 50 young people from different countries the opportunity to get an inside touch of the organization and working process of three established short film events – International Short Film Festival IN THE PALACE and its parallel programmes in film training and industry meetings. The project is carried out by Format SFF Foundation, coordinating and receiving organization. The duration of the project is 4 months (1st October – 31st January) and volunteers are supposed to arrive for 6 weeks (2nd November – 13th December) in the city of festival location – Sofia, in order to take part in the preparation and implementation of the festival and all its parallel events. Volunteers are engaged in tasks related to the promotion of events, getting familiar with the atmosphere and the venues of the festival, and tasks, developing creativity in the fields of cinema, journalism, design and photography. Leading goal is to quickly adapt to the environment and to form a specific attitude for the upcoming events. Analysis and assessment of personal qualities and interests is also important, since based on them will be done the distribution in teams.In the phase of actual conduct of the events the tasks of the volunteers are related to specific details in organizing events. Young people are divided into teams, as many of them serve on a rotating basis in order to explore in more detail the organization of a major international event, and to acquire more knowledge and skills.After the event is over volunteers are enrolled in: support the departure of the official guests of the festival; implementation of post festival promotion campaign; self evaluation; dissemination of results.The aim of the project is to allow young people interested in cinema to participate in the organization of these events, while having access to all screenings, master classes, debates and networking possibilities.