The Youth Exchange “Our EU, our future” will bring together 36 young people from 6 European youth organizations and will take place in Athens, Greece during 7 full working days. The main objective of the project is to raise awareness of the European Union among youth. The planned activities will result to a better understanding of our power to become key actors bringing positive change and strengthening EU foundations. We will acknowledge our common European identity and citizenship by being involved in discussions, sharing experiences, feeling empowered and realizing our common values. Our close collaboration will result to initiatives and strategies to promote European cohesion and they will be presented in digital awareness campaigns. The campaigns created will be thoroughly promoted so our ideas can reach a wide audience. Through non-formal education methods, workshops in internationally mixed teams and a well structured and balanced programme between theory and practice, we will create a stronger sense of community based on mutual cooperation during the whole project. Our objectives in brief: - Promote active citizenship, intercultural dialogue, social inclusion and solidarity among European youth; - learn about European roots and history; - gather different perspective on Europe and European identity; - learn about the meaning and concrete practices of EU focusing on EU Youth Strategy, Erasmus+, European Solidarity Corps; - build bridges between European Youth and promote the value of volunteerism; - work on innovative strategies and initiatives that will strengthen our common European future in a range of topics; - build a common sense of belonging in EU; - gain capacity for critical judgment, in order to be able to answer a set of questions we have about future scenarios of EU; - have the opportunity to reflect and think about the birth of Europe and the concepts of European identity and citizenship; - investigate current trends and issues; - identify and create small practical tools that will help youth workers, trainers and youth organizations to deal with a changing Europe and its future scenarios; - reflect on EU values/ideals, objectives, frameworks, institutions, relationships; - spread the information and increase awareness on the future of EU by creating and disseminating our digital awareness campaign; - contribute to intercultural learning between young people coming from different cultural backgrounds; - increase our awareness about EU policies and initiatives regarding mobility. The Youth Exchange is designed as an open space of mutual learning, based on non formal education and the experiential learning methodologies applied under the monitoring and the support of the team leaders. Theoretical and practical workshops will be mixed during the activity and participants will be actively involved in their own learning process. Main methods that will be used are: brainstorming, small working groups, simulation exercise, learning by doing workshops, role play, theatre, debate, self reflection, question and answer session etc. Partner organizations who are participating in the project will benefit by enriching their experience through their members. New contacts and new project ideas will help organizations to continue working in the future and engaging more young people having a big multiplying effect.