Association “Professional Forum for Education” is a non-profit organization based in Sofia, Bulgaria, which works on the topics of education, culture, youth projects, etc. Association “Professional Forum for Education” is a non-profit organization created in 2002, which has a wide range of activities related to the youth work, education and culture. PFE aims to involve young people in non-formal educational processes promoting intercultural dialogue, youth mobility, volunteering, entrepreneurship, active citizenship, environmental sustainability, tolerance and appreciation of diversity. These objectives are realized by a number of specific activities provided by our organization, such as seminars, training courses, conferences, summer and winter trainings for teachers and youth workers, as well as youth activities on the local and national level. Our activities are designed both for educators who would like to integrate non-formal educational methods in their work, and for young people who are motivated to learn more on these subjects and to be an active part of society. Since 2016, PFE has been certified by the Ministry of Education as one of the approximately 80 organizations on the national level in Bulgaria which can deliver trainings for teachers, with 31 educational modules approved, including innovative school models, emotional intelligence,
project development, non-formal education, coaching, etc., and it has an official certification for quality control (ISO). During the regular trainings of the organization, more than 300 teachers and youth workers from Bulgaria are trained annually. The organization has experience in international youth projects as well, regularly sending Bulgarian participants to training courses, youth exchanges and job shadowing activities abroad, in the frame
of the Erasmus+ program of the European Commission. We have also been successfully organizing international youth projects in Bulgaria, in the frame of Erasmus+, on the topics of youth unemployment,
entrepreneurship, active citizenship, consumerism, contemporary art, environmental sustainability, storytelling and others. Since 2020 we have also been accredited as sending and hosting organization for volunteers under the European Solidarity Corps program, and we have been hosting volunteers from different countries, in partnership with the Bulgarian Academy of Science.
