Our youth project has a dual purpose. 1. to try to develop youth workers from among our young people who had previously been involved in youth exchanges and volunteer projects, who would be able to involve more young people in the activities of the organisation. We wanted 4 young people who are very strong in intellectual sports in our association to gain experience abroad of how other countries use intellectual sports, and logic games for community-building purposes. How can they mobilise youth, what tools do they have in the youth field? What support do they enjoy at the national level, how active are they as citizens and how active are they as young people in their civic activities? Under the leadership of the Turkish Damascus Federation, experts and young youth workers from other countries federations were also involved in the exchange of professional experience. During the visit they helped to analyse the Hungarian context and the social, economic and civil resources available. They analysed the relations between the civil and public spheres and possible forms of cooperation. Together they produced educational materials that will help us to organise programmes to involve young people. The visit lasted 10 days. The relationship proved to be effective, as since then several associations have approached our association and have provided us with intellectual support and educational materials to strengthen the education of young people in the field of intellectual sports, including international checkers, Russian checkers and Brazilian checkers, in which our young people, many of whom have reached master level, play a very important role. They will form the coaching, master and grandmaster base in these intellectual sports. Our 2nd objective was to organise a youth exchange in our municipality with 36 participants. We also organised a preparatory visit, as we were working with a completely new partner. We met the Bulgarian partner on the basis of recommendations from our previous partners and wanted to prepare the visit thoroughly so that no one would be surprised either by the tasks to be done or by the location and conditions. During the preparatory visit we managed to put together a very strong programme plan with the young people. Our main theme was the development of emotional intelligence. The pandemic has severely disrupted people's social relationships, changed our habits and opportunities, which have had a very strong impact on young people in particular. So our theme explored what emotional intelligence is, why it is important to have a well-developed EQ. Emotional intelligence (EQ) is a set of mental abilities, personality traits, social competencies. EQ is key in practical life. It includes competences such as effective communication, cooperation, accurate self-assessment, self-management, optimism, perseverance, patience and stress management. People with high emotional intelligence are able to discover and effectively influence the moods and desires of others, have a complex knowledge of others' emotions, and therefore inspire trust in others and are treated more favourably in their environment. When our emotional intelligence is weaker, our decisions can have negative consequences (e.g. we can get carried away by our emotions, make poor choices about partners, jobs, or even misjudge the needs of ourselves and others, etc.). Therefore, the focus of our youth exchange was to explore and develop this area of competence.