This project aims at the validation, recognition and appreciation of the practice of coaching in both international and local youth work. The purpose is to equip youth workers and youth organisations with coaching competences so that they will in turn use them to empower and support young people in goal setting and career guidance. While this project will work internationally to empower and support youth workers into becoming good and efficient coaches according to the international coaching federation standards, it will also give them an opportunity to practice their newly gained competences by establishing coaching services aiming at young people. Therefore each partner in the project will create a local partnership, which, according to the local reality, may include one of from the following not excluding list: University, High School, Educational Institution, Local Authority, TVET Centre, Adult Learning Centres etc. Aiming at a partnership of 3, youth organisation and 2 local bodies.Our partners will provide participants for 3 trainings for coaches. The 1st round of training for coaches will provide participants with basic competences on how to structure and implement a coaching service, while the second round will provide participants with intermediate competences and the third one will provide participants with advanced competences and a coaching certification provided by 2 private entities besides the YouthPass.OBJECTIVES:· To empower youth workers, youth leaders, adult educational professionals with advanced coaching competences.· To establish local pilot programmes aiming at the implementation of the coaching practice and application of the gained competences in reducing unemployment as well as harmonising career choices through goal elicitation.· To create a solution-oriented approach in tackling youth unemployment and thus foster employability and entrepreneurship.· To establish long-term and sustainable coaching practices aiming at developing the competences of local youth towards community leadership, initiators of local projects and activities aiming towards regional development through the promotion of cultural diversity and social inclusion.· To provide international mobility opportunities for both coaching practitioners and final beneficiaries in order to enhance the European dimension of the project and team understanding.· To actively advocate to the relevant local, national and European authorities for the recognition and validation of coaching as a tool and method for working and fostering competence development in young people. There will also be these activities happening in parallel to support the project implementation and accomplishment of its goals:1) Social and Anthropological Research, to assess the situation and state concerning the participants in the international programme, the final local beneficiaries and their communities. The Research will be an ongoing assessment which will provide by the end of the training empirical data concerning the efficacy of coaching.2) Use of modern technologies and approaches will be extensively used in order to promote the goals and activities of this project, by ensuring constant visibility on social media, by disseminating video tutorials and audiovisual production, such as a video documentary on how the project is being implemented, and by writing, drafting and disseminating literature on the topic created by the team.The expected outcomes are the following:- Each of the 5 partners will have 4 internationally trained and certified advanced coaches.- Each coach will assist a minimum of 10 people in career guidance and goal setting, with a minimum outreach of minimum 200 young people.- A minimum of 10 (2 per country) local youth initiatives will be promoted and coached until completion of average each including a minimum of 5 young people, for a total of 100.- A minimum of two partnership per country will be signed and established with public and educational bodies, for a minimum total of 30 local public bodies and authorities involved Europe-wide.- 3 publications / coaching manuals to be compiled and publish.- Minimum 20 video tutorials to be produced.- Minimum 30 interviews with participants of the international training course.- 1 Video documentary shot and edited about how a coaching process functions.- Minimum 20 Non Formal Education tools created and implemented.- Academic anthropological and sociological research on youth needs and the impact of coaching. To be published on a paper.- Presentation of the project outcomes and results to relevant local/regional/national/European authorities in Strasbourg and Brussels.