Advancing the Third Sector through Innovation and Variation (ATSIV), an Erasmus+ project, aims at increasing the professional competences of NGOs working by providing an open access online platform of training through gaming. ATSIV will impact in terms of more skilled and socially aware adult NGO workers; enhanced quadruple helix co-creation and local/regional/national/EU level, increase of active citizenship, mitigation of the social groups at risk, boost of NGO job market, increased philanthropy from quadruple helix stakeholders towards NGOs, cross-EU homogenous NGO innovation.