According to Wikipedia, a fairy tale, wonder tale, magic tale, or Märchen is a folklore genre that takes the form of a short story. Such stories typically feature entities such as dwarfs, dragons, elves, talking animals, trolls, unicorns, or witches, and usually magic or enchantments. In most cultures, there is no clear line separating myth from folk or fairy tale. The term is mainly related to children's literature. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairy_tale). But free encyclopedia misses one important and significant fact. Fairytales aren’t known for their focus on human rights! They contain lessons: don’t judge someone on their looks; be kind to others. They’re chock-full of warnings: don’t stray from the path; watch out for witches, wolves, and spindles. However, as a guide to ethics (the broad principles that govern a fair society) or rights (in terms of individual freedoms to be or to do) they are somewhat lacking. So let’s investigate some of the basic human rights abused in everyday fairy tales: • Forced marriage The (unnamed) girl in Rumpelstiltskin is given in marriage to the man who threatens to cut off her head if she doesn’t spin straw into gold. (Potential breaches of Anti-social Behavior, Crime, and Policing Act 2014 and Human Rights Act Article 12: Right to Marry) • An inadequate legal system In early versions of the tales, the Wicked Queen in Snow White is forced to dance in red-hot shoes until death. (Potential breaches of Human Rights Act Article 6: Right to a fair trial, Article 3: Inhuman treatment) • Institutional discrimination This one is rife across almost every fairytale you can name. Among others: class discrimination (vast economic inequality between royalty and poor); sexual discrimination (women rarely work and, if they do, it’s in low paid menial jobs); a distinct lack of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans (LGBT) characters; the marginalization of those who are “different”. (Potential breaches of Human Rights Act Article 14: Right to enjoy freedom without discrimination, Article 2 Protocol 1: Right to education) Regardless of which countries we come from, we all come from childhood and the first ideas about the world as a whole and what is good and what is bad we get through fairy tales. And then we live our whole lives with these values, beliefs and behavior. Therefore, as part of this youth exchange, we want to look at fairy tales from a new perspective. We want to look at fairy tales through the prism of the diversity of cultures and countries and to understand which heroes and why take place in different parts of Europe. We want to discuss, how human rights are violated in fairy tales and how can we rewrite stories. And we want to remind youngsters of how important is to think critically in all aspects of life, even in those that came to us from parents and teachers. Therefore, the aim of the youth exchange is to give the opportunity for youth from different backgrounds to reflect on diversity, intercultural and inter-religious dialogue through fairy tales, to experience different methods of non-formal education in order to raise awareness about human rights and encourage developing soft skills needed in their personal and professional life. The objectives of the youth exchange are: • to raise youngsters’ awareness about European values and to help them to become more sensitive towards the actual global challenges; • to promote inclusion, diversity, equality, solidarity, empathy and tolerance and to foster intercultural understanding between people of different origins; • to equip youngsters with knowledge and tools about creative thinking, storytelling, public speaking, teamwork and other soft skills through non-formal methods of education; • to create space for sharing knowledge and exchanging ideas with the atmosphere of common understanding between peers representing different cultures and backgrounds. • to promote different opportunities under Erasmus + and the Youthpass as a tool for the recognition of non-formal competencies. • create a video, which displays the value of diversity, multiculturalism and reflection on human rights, which will later be distributed among partners and uploaded to Salto Toolbox. We believe that the aims and objectives of this project is in direct correlation with the objectives of Erasmus+ and KA1. The main topic of the project is based on the principles of the EUROPE 2020 Strategy, as well as one of the objectives of Erasmus +, enhancing the international dimension of social inclusion to support young people in order to give them the opportunity to develop new attitudes and equipping them with the soft skills.