The main objective of the project was to teach young people about diversity and how to promote it. Looking at the definitions of concepts such as diversity, migrants, refugees, tolerance, hate speech and freedom of speech through various non-formal activities. Looking at how to be an active citizen to fight against discrimination, prejudice and hate were central to the initial project application. However, as this was the first project we ever wrote and it was applied more than 2 years ago - we realised that we could do much more with the Youth Exchange than what was written in the initial project application. This was because the main organiser of the project (Auban Pringle) gained lots of new experience in the facilitation of erasmus+ projects since he wrote the initial project application. This went alongside the fact that we realised the project budget granted to Youth4You was a great amount to buy materials needed to teach the participants a lot more than just showing them the surface of diversity. Furthermore, Auban, the writer and facilitator of the project, had gained a lot of experience facilitating erasmus+ projects since the initial project application. Alongside this, we had some very competent and skilled group leaders and participants on the project, giving them the opportunity to lead their own sessions and get the young people to learn from each other also a great aspect of a youth exchange. While we did deviate from the objectives written in the initial project application, we did much more than what was written as we wanted to promote lifelong learning and get more into-depth about some specifics about understanding and promoting diversity as well as its challenge. Getting more into depth into topics was a great decision that we made to made the project a success. Right before the actual mobility started while making the schedule, we decided to choose the following objectives: - Learn about what diversity is and how to promote it - Learn about prejudice and discrimination in the partner countries - Learn about the development of diversity in the past years due to the refugee crisis - Give participants the opportunity to learn from each other by giving them the ability to lead sessions if they wanted to - Teach the participants about guilt, shame and fear cultures, how they developed and what the differences are - Talk about intercultural dialogue and look at methods to bridge over intercultural cleavages - Give people the platform to speak about their opinions and listen to each other - Give them the opportunity to speak to locals about diversity in Turkey in the diverse city of Izmir - Learn about how to make a video promoting diversity. - Promote active citizenship, digitally and in person (predominantly in relation to speaking up against discrimination). - Learn about the erasmus+ programme and the 8 key competences. - Learn from each other through informal education. The objectives were more in-depth than the initial project application as in hindsight we were not very happy with how vague and basic the project application was but as we decided on more concrete objectives it gave us much more to work with. As the Erasmus+ programme has been doing a magnificent job throughout the past 35 years encouraging international relationships and encouraging intercultural dialogue among the people of Europe, we believe the objectives that we chose are crucial to upholding this - especially considering the growing amount of populism throughout the European continent with Brexit a perfect example of this. The motto of the European Union is "United in Diversity" which is very linked to the name of our project "Don't hate, collaborate!" which was promoting the mutual understanding between people, cultures, ethnicities and nationalities. Especially as we had people from disadvantaged communities on the project who mingled along with the people who were not disadvantaged, this was a great opportunity for them to mingle. A big advantage of organising the Youth Exchange in Turkey was also that it is a predominantly Muslim country which can give opportunities to the participants to have intergroup contact with Muslim people - especially during the age of rising islamophobia throughout the European continent. Another great advantage is that the youth of Turkey would see the opportunities that the EU is giving them, and not believe the populist eurosceptic narrative of some of the political parties in government in Turkey. All of these objectives were central to this youth exchange and the concreteness of the new objectives was useful in making the name of our youth exchange more topical to the name, the values of the European Union and the objectives of Erasmus+.