The project "Young, Free and Sustainable" with its 6 youth exchanges had the aim to contribute to a broadening of European horizons. The project included 6 youth exchanges, which dealt with sustainability and youth culture in different ways and thus offered an opportunity for exchange and dialogue among young people aged 13 to 17 years and gave impulses to get involved, express themselves creatively, take a stand with others, become aware of themselves and others in a new constellation, experience Europe in common expression and experience. A total of 137 young people aged between 13 and 17 years and 32 pedagogical assistants from Portugal, Austria, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands took part. The partner organisations of the AK Tirol are the non-profit organisations The Kona Foundation (UK) and Horizonte de Virtudes (POR), the youth organisations Royston Youth Action (UK) and Stichting Digg'Out (NL). The activities were particularly aimed at young people who have not yet had European experiences and who, due to their socio-economic situation, would not be able to gain experience abroad by their own means - but who showed great interest in sharing youth culture with other European young people. The project was able to show the young participants that there may be different cultural realities, languages, traditions, religions and values in the European countries, but that there is much more that unites than divides them, and to make them experience that young people all over Europe have similar interests and that there is something like a youth culture that is common to them all and that can be a strong and unifying element for European young people. This should not be made clear by theoretical explanations, but should be experienced in joint action. In particular, non-verbal forms of representation and expression such as dance, pottery, painting, cooking and the design of metal figures enabled direct communication across language barriers, regardless of language skills and level of education. We worked with physicality and movement, with the joy of representation and staging, with the desire to express oneself without being dependent on words. It was about discovering and testing new "possibility spaces" of self-expression. The participants were able to experience themselves as a learning group, and the programme and the respective activities took account of this concern through need and process orientation. In exchange, the participants were able to acquire new knowledge, discover new skills together and develop new ideas in their activities. In our opinion, intercultural learning and learning in general is not possible without fun, and this should not be neglected. Group tasks, discussion groups, visits to institutions and excursions rounded off the cultural exchange. Participation in this non-formal education project can be a first step towards Europe.