YOUth CARES:YOUng Citizens Active and RESponsible

What defines a good Youth exchange? This question is not answerable with one specific point. So many parts are important for that. Since it was my first one, I don't have any comparisons yet. Nevertheless, this marks for me an amazing combination. It took place in a village surrounded by mountains and partly even completely in the mountains. It's not just a good place regarding the ecological part of the topic, it let us grow together even stronger. Different kind of activities in over and over again mixed combinations helped for the team building as well. Apart from the camping we did several smaller trips, which let us get to know active youngsters and Greece. The point of a Youth exchange is not only to work in a non-formal way towards a specific topic, but also to get to know other cultures, get rid of sterotypes and to broaden one's whole horizon. To put it in a nutshell, the time showed me how a small step of everyone can change a lot and made me curious about get

…is an 11-day youth exchange that will take place in Paranesti area of Drama and aims to bring together young people from 5 different EU countries to get to know each other and work on the theme of active citizenship of young people in terms of environmental protection, volunteering and active participation in their community The objectives of our program are to: • bring together young people and familiarize them with the experiential learning in nature which will help them develop skills that will enhance their active citizenship skills and their personal and professional development • give young people the opportunity to understand the natural environment as part of the ecosystem and to develop a responsible attitude through environmental awareness • support young people in their contact with different cultures, habits and lifestyles, notably through non-formal learning and peer learning • encourage self-action, voluntary and participatory initiatives by young people thr

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Association POSITIVE MIND (Pozitiva Doma) is created with aim to promote understanding and tolerance between people and society groups with different cultures, religions, races, social, economical background and health condition; promote integration of people with less opportunities and equal rights for everybody. The main working fields of organization are non-formal learning, intercultural learning and volunteering, active youth participation and active citizenship as well as healthy lifestyle and well being of young people and protection of environment and eco-behavior development. Our organization implements local and international educational initiatives in partnership with local, national and international partners . Pozitiva Doma is recognized in Tukums Region and Engures Region as organization working with wide range of youth non-formal learning activities and international learning mobilities like youth exchanges and EVS. The main activities of our organization

PAOLAB is an association (social promotion association – no profit), that was born officially in the 2006, but actually there were already some people involved in a non formal group that was organizing some activities some years before 2006. On the beginning most of the activities were concerts, cine forum and workshop about politics and social problems. From the 2011 PAOLAB has increased lot is work. In the last years the association was starting to become an association with many students as activists; thanks of that PAOLAB was going to be an organization involved in the European project management (and not only). Thanks to the wish and work of the youth activists the association started to become always more popular. Activities of the organization for the youth coming from rural areas -carrying out study and research activities to enhance, protect, promote handicrafts and agro-food products especially in the youth sector -carrying out training environmental activiti

The Asociacion Monitores para el tiempo libre Mar Antiguo is a youth association created with the main objective of bringing European culture and the Erasmus + program to the youth of our city. We have been working in education for and for free time for more than 15 years, focusing on the aspects of non-formal education and using ludic and attractive methodologies for the youth population. We have held several meetings with organizations from different countries of the EU and we collaborate with other organizations, forming an associative network in the city of Granada, as well as we have a close collaboration with the Municipality of Maracena in different activities they carry out. Our association has more than 50 members, and many partners involved in our activities. We are environmental volunteers, we work in urban camps and children's camps, and organize meetings with other associations and organizations. We participate in social life of the province, making for

NaturKultur is an youth association that is founded in North-West Germany and now exists in Bremen, Wiefelstede - Oldenburg and Osterholz-Scharmbeck. The name Natur(nature) represents the physical world including all living things as well as the land and the oceans*. Kultur(culture) is the totality of socially transmitted behavior patterns, arts, beliefs, institutions, and all other products of human work and thought**. Therefore, we as organization want to be the synergy between these two terms and harmonize the living welfare on this planet. The main objectives of the organization are: - To create and provide international mobilities for young people in Germany. To encourage and support young people to go on international mobilities, but also other organizations and NGOs to host international young people or to send their members abroad. - To provide opportunities for young people that will make them more civically engaged in our local societies. - To create community based proj

I-PARTICIPATE organization aims to strengthen active citizenship, to support active participation among citizens and to promote European values, ideas and European identity and culture, while at the same time highlighting lifelong learning as a necessary means for strengthening citizenship. More specifically its goals are: i. Sustainable development ii. Providing generic social services A. Sustainable development The organization in furthering its goals promoting sustainable development pursue the following activities which: a. promote social and economic justice b promoting young peoples' pro-social and pro-nature behavior c. promote gender equality d. protect and develop the common goods e. promote an intergenerational and multicultural approach, which will emphasize the specific characteristics of local communities f. promote agricultural development More specifically, the organization’s goals regarding sustainable development can be s

45 participants 7 young people aged between 18 - 24,  and 2 team leaders for each team without any age limit, from the following countries:                         Greece- Gernany- Latvia- Italy- Spain

For YOUth CARES ! we have designed exclusively activities based on the principles of non-formal learning such as workshops, discussions, group work, role-playing and outdoor activities. At the end of YOUth CARES, young people will create an e-book of experiences on the active participation and environmental awareness of young people. Our long-term goal is to create a sustainable network of active young people and youth organizations that will continue to work together in the future and to develop ideas for the promotion of a national-European youth network with vehicle the outdoor living and contact with the Nature which will lead to the development of active citizens in a prosperous society.