• To train participant's leadership skills crucial for environmental organisations
• To improve various skills (communication skills, conflict resolution skills, time management skills, human management skills)
• To practice how to raise environmental awareness (motivation skills)
• To support youth leaders from YEE network and their youth NGOs in self-development
• To exchange leadership techniques and experience of leaders from various organisations from different countries (involving volunteers, motivating)
• To strengthen the network and plan the strategy of supporting youth leaders (follow-up activities)
• To raise the quality of international projects based on non-formal education

Agenda:

Check the program of the project.

Opinions from participants:

'I love to be a participant in YEE trainings. I always find new friends that help to give spirit, energy and shape to my thoughts, emotions and knowledge/information. And it doesn't matter how many times you participated in a training with almost the same topic, or how experienced you are, there is always something new and someone that leads you to a different point of view, that helps you understand and live your reality by improving it every day.'
Ermelinda Mahmutaj, EDEN Center, Albania

'This TC for me represents a strong driving force for my personal development, as well as for the development of my organization. It gave me burst of ideas for next steps and possibilities of other more interesting ways of doing things. Now I feel more able to see the bigger picture more clearly on organizational level and to see things from different perspectives. We were talking about motivation, but I think that the biggest motivation for me were all the friendships that I made there, all of us sharing the same aim – protection of our nature.'
Katerina Gileva, DEM, Macedonia

'During the few training sessions I offered I could think more deeply and experiment a little about leaders (leader aspect in every person) and how support their growth. In the sessions I tried to deliver a bottom line which I intuitively felt but did not fully grasped: leader is aware connected to his self: dreams, thinking, emotions, and body. Once strong and connected inside, the leadership appears naturaly.'
Ondrej Pribyla, trainer, Czech Republic

'It was a really good experience to take part in this training course! Very professional trainers and organizers, great program and inputs about leadership and ENGOs work, enthusiastic group of participants, wonderfull venue! Everything that one could need for returning full of motivation to continue changing the world :) Congratulations to YEE team and let's keep on networking like this!'
Gil Pereira, OPE, Portugal

'I've been really impressed with the organizational Staff. The team was really passionated and competent. I've appreciated the Leadership course in its whole complexity, especially the topic about "Presentation Skills". The competences acquired during the course are going to be really usefull in my future project, not only in my organisation.'
Sesto Giuseppe Santoli, Mine Vaganti, Italy

'This was my first training and I honestly say it was better than I expected. I learnt a lot. We had really wonderful and professional team who helped us. All participants were creative people, full of ideas, that really made me think. I hope some of these ideas will be realized. Thank you very much.'
Biljana Stranjancevic, Young Researchers of Serbia, Serbia

'Training course was very useful for my organization. After the TC I came back to my organization with concrete ideas how to improve quality and impact of our work. Projects organized by YEE always give me a new motivation and inspiration for further work. This project was not exeption. It was great! Thanks for organizers and participants!'
Ģirts Baranovskis, Balta Daba, Latvia

'I loved it and if I have another chance to go to more TCs made by YEE, I am in! In my opinion, in one week you did make 22 people feel like only one, and also giving them tools to be much better leaders than they were before that week. Staying one week with so different minds and so different ways of living life, was a great experience because with that now I am able to see life with another prespective.'
Jorge Carvalho, OPE, Portugal

'Whiiiiii...I can just remember the wide smile in my mind when I was sitting there and listening to the organizers and trainers describing me the way and tools to achieve my dreams. Suddenly I saw all the connections and the solutions in my working tasks I'm trying to solve now which drove me to day dreaming where I could see the future which inspires and motivates me every single day in my work.'
Ondrej Dobes, ZC Hnuti Brontosaurus Modry Kamen, Czech Republic