🇧🇬 Erasmus+ Training Course in Bulgaria 🤝 Mentoring & Coaching — A Professional Pathway for Volunteer Coordinators & Youth Workers in Dzhurovo 🌿

🔑 Key Information

Activity ⭐️ Title

Mentoring and Coaching TC

Activity 🔶 Type | 📆 Dates | 📍Location

Training Course

14-20 July 2026 | Dzhurovo, Bulgaria

❗️What Is This Training About?

The Coaching & Mentoring Training is a 7-day immersive Erasmus+ program designed to help volunteer coordinators, youth workers, and project managers strengthen their coaching and mentoring skills through practical, real-life learning.

ℹ️ Description About The Opportunity

This is a 7-day training designed specifically for volunteer coordinators who want to strengthen their coaching and mentoring skills — and transform the way they guide, support, and develop volunteers in their daily work.

But unlike a standard training course, this program is the entry point to a structured professional pathway: from training and mentoring support, to a paid internship, to potential long-term cooperation with Synergy Bulgaria.

We are not here to fill seats. We are here to find and develop the next generation of people who work with people.

THIS TRAINING IS DESIGNED TO HELP YOU:

1. Build practical coaching & mentoring skills to use directly with your volunteers;

2. Identify your current role as a coordinator and define your areas of professional growth;

3. Develop a personal toolkit for supporting volunteers through challenges and transitions;

4. Learn how to create a motivating, growth-oriented environment within your team;

5. Connect with like-minded coordinators across Europe and build partnerships for future collaboration.

WE WOULD LOVE TO HAVE YOU IN OUR PROGRAM IF:

· You are a volunteer coordinator, youth worker, or project manager responsible for the day-to-day support and development of volunteers;

· You're 18+ and reside in one of the Erasmus+ Programme countries;

· You're motivated to improve the quality of your work with volunteers through a coaching and mentoring approach;

· You are comfortable communicating in English;

· You are looking for more than a certificate — you want a real professional pathway.

All the details in the infopack! Apply here.

Training overview

This Training Course is

for 15 participants

from Erasmus+ Youth Programme countries

and recommended for

Youth workers, Youth leaders, Youth project managers, Volunteering mentors, Youth coaches

Working language(s):

English

Organiser:

Synergy Bulgaria (Youth NGO)

A fast-paced youth NGO based in Sofia, Bulgaria, active since 2013. Synergy's expertise spans coaching and non-formal education, volunteer coordination, and sustainable community development. Holding an ESC accreditation since 2014, Synergy has hosted hundreds of local and international volunteers, run 6 Volunteering Teams in High-Priority Areas projects, and developed the Synergy Method — a combination of experiential learning and coaching that underpins all of our educational programs. In 2026–2028, at least 12 volunteering programs are planned and funded under our umbrella.

📥 Contact

Contact for questions:

Yulia Markos

E-Mail:

Phone: +359899174559

💶 Costs

Participation fee

The participation fee is €60. We invest fully in the quality of this program — and we look for participants who are ready to match that commitment: time-wise, energy-wise, and financially.

Accommodation and food

Accommodation, food, and training materials are provided by Synergy Bulgaria. Synergy House offers shared sleeping space, indoor and outdoor facilities, and a natural setting that supports both focus and rest. We'll provide 3 meals per day and 2 coffee-breaks during learning sessions.

Travel reimbursement

Travel costs from your hometown to Botevgrad (the closest town) and back will be reimbursed up to the limit according to the Erasmus+ Distance Calculator.

📜 Certificate

Participants are entitled to receive a Youthpass certificate from the organiser, for recognition of their competence development during the activity. Read more about Youthpass:

https://youthworkshub.org/15122