By implementing the project we wanted to offer young people an opportunity to learn about other cultures, ways of life, traditions, feasts, national quisine, history, geography of the partner countries or everyday problems of young people, to get rid of prejudices and stereotypes, to become more aware of European values and to develop their key competences, extend their knowledge of cultures in the partner countries, and to be able to find similarities and differences between cultures. We wanted to foster their feelings of being Europeans, and develop their tolerance towards people coming from different background or cultures. We also wanted to give young people an opportunity to develop their key competences essential for their future personal, educational or professional life. We wanted the participants to develop particularly the following key competences: 1. communication and language both in national language and English by: - communication with other youngsters in their teams during the preparatory stage, during preparing presentations of their organization, town, country, culture, history or geography for their Evening of national culture, in discussions about issues regarding the topic they were responsible for during the youth exchange, about travel issues, culture and language preparation for the project. - communication with other young people and youth workers during dissemination stage while sharing experience with them at the meetings in their town, by working on their narrations about the YE or preparing articles for local press. - communication in English by extending their vocabulary, practising the language, getting new experience with different pronunciation or accent of other participants, by learning new words and phrases from the languages of their partners etc. - communication during workshops, discussions and other activities. The participants developed their fluency in English during workshops, improved their skills to come up with their ideas, stand up for them, react to objections, find a compromise and agree on a final result or solution. They improved their English also during discussions, e.g. Visionairies, during Interviews with local people and other young people, during evaluation activities. Their communication and language skills were also developed by working in internationally mixed groups. Their need to be able to communicate fluently, clearly, use proper vocabulary etc. definitely increased their motivation for further learning of English. 2. social competences: - by working together with youngsters coming from different background, different cultures, facing different problems, leading a different everyday life. - by cooperation with youngsters with limited opportunities, as they became more aware of situation of young people who face economic, social, geographical or other obstacles that often make their life more difficult. - by working in mixed international groups - during the workshops Religion and tolerance and Migration and tolerance as they became more aware of religion differences or world issues that cause migration and learned more about people persecuted or about people whose human rights are violated - by spending time with youngsters of the same or similar age from different environment. 3. digital competences: - by using ICT tools at the preparatory phase when they were creating presentations or Kahoot quizes for their Evenings of national culture - by searching for videos on the internet describing their culture, presenting their town and country - by using various tools such as laptop, projector, speaker, digital cameras - by creating online outputs from the project, films, photo-presentations etc. in dissemination phase - by using social network for communication with their team-mates and with youngsters from other participating organizations. - by sharing, publishing and informing their friends on their facebook or Instagram. 4. cultural awareness and expression: - by enlarging their knowledge of other countries, cultures, ways of life, religion, traditions, habits, cuisine, games, dances and many other issues, particularly during the activities Evening of national culture and Day of national cuisine. - by becoming more aware of European issues and European values, prejudices and stereotypes that people in the participating countries may have towards other cultures. - by learning more about the hosting country during excursions, Interview with local people and young people in the hosting country - by developing their creativity By implementation of this project we also wanted to give the participating organizations an opportunity to improve their daily work with young people, develop international cooperation, exchange examples of good practice with the others, foster cooperation within their teams, have more experienced youth workers, attract new youngsters to their teams and increase visibility of their work.