"Youth work in Europe is diverse in its definitions as well as forms and practices. In the context of growing diversity of practices on the one hand, and calls for quality standards and professionalisation on the other, the universities have to make their decisions for offering relevant training.In this context, the focus of the current project is to look at the development of youth work degree programmes as a key factor in successful training of professional youth workers. Under programme development, the project understands the overall design of the study process, the choice of the grounding values and theories, pedagogies, course structure, role of theoretical and practical component, etc.Within the frames of the project:experience exchangeand discussion at different levelsraised the question of the uniqueness of learning and approaches to learning.The project involved more than 400 people from different countries, including 47 authors of the intellectual output book from 5 countries.The following project objectives have been achieved:-1 intellectual output has been delivered: the project resulted in development of the reference book ""Teaching youth work in higher education : tensions, connections, continuities and contradictions"" about curriculum development. The book represents a comparative analysis of the programmes of the partner universities. In the process of conducting of the analysis and writing of the book the project partners raised and discussed the issue of uniqueness of the phenomenon of learning and the choice of the corresponding approaches to learning;-1 international conference has been organized. The conference was held at the final stage of the project, and the main aim of the event was to introduce and disseminate the intellectual output. The aim was achieved, the conference was participated by 176 people. The presentations and experience exchange within the frames of the conference also initiated a discussion on the practices of youth work training in Europe and allowed the representatives of the European youth work community to introduce and explain their outlooks on the pre- and in-service training of youth workers;-4 international project meetings have been held. These meetings provided the project partners with possibilities to get an insight into one another’s youth worker training practices and to find common ground for, firstly, identifying the areas of cooperation and, secondly, for determining and specifying the project activities and their content;-2 round table discussions with policymakers and key stakeholders have been held. The aim of these discussions was to draw attention to the project as such and to the area of youth worker training in general. The Estonian and Finnish presidency in the Council of the EU was the context that the project partners benefitted from in drawing international attention to issues and practices of training of youth work specialists. The total number of the participants in the 2 round table discussions was 40;-1 information dissemination seminar has been held. The aim of the seminar was to introduce the intellectual output. The seminar took place in the UK and was attended by 51 specialists in the area of youth work;-2 sessions of smaller events for local stakeholders have been held. Involvement at the local level has had a sufficient impact on achievement of the project objectives, as project partners are unlikely to be comprehensible at the European and international levels in the situation of misunderstanding and lack of support at the local level. Based on the above-said, it can be concluded that the project results have been achieved confidently. The international experience exchange among the project partners has made it possible to distinguish the issue of uniqueness of youth workers training and to raise the issue at the European level. The International project meetings, round table discussions and the final conference of the project have been an efficient platform for discussion and the search for common solutions regarding youth work in Europe. The intellectual output of the project – the reference book – is a content-rich source of information about youth work practices and an in-depth analysis of the diversity of approaches to pre-service training of specialists in the area of youth work. This material is to have a long-term impact both on the training and research in the area of youth work and it has already attracted a lot of positive attention."