"THE TOWER OF BABEL" is the title of a youth exchange project that took place in Tel Aviv, Israel. Two groups were involved: "Offener Kunstverein Potsdam e.V." and "SELA - The Performing arts". Our starting point was the following: People are on the move around the world, fleeing because of wars and civil strife, persecution for political or cultural reasons, or economic hardship. The world has changed in recent years: In addition to the majority society, there exist, in Germany, for example, communities of Turkish, Arab, Vietnamese immigrants and refugees from Syria, Afghanistan, and other countries . Some are new, others are already living here in the third or fourth generation. Alongside this development, we are witnessing a new awareness of the diversity of human existence, for example in terms of gender and sexuality. This finds expression in language and in communication; on the one hand we observe an enrichment, on the other hand an uncertainty, as far as traditional forms of togetherness are concerned. In Israel, we are observing similar developments, despite all the differences. All this leads to the question: How can we communicate, how can we live and work together? "The Tower of Babel" serves in our project as a parable to deal artistically with these questions. It has been handed down in all monotheistic religions: "It is told of a people from the East who speak the one (sacred) language and settle in the plain in a land called Shinar. There they want to build a city and a tower with a top reaching to the sky. So the Lord came down to see the city and tower that the children of men were building. Now he fears that the people might become overconfident and stop at nothing that comes to mind. God confuses their language and drives them out over the whole earth. The further work on the tower comes to a forced end because the confusion of language that has occurred by a miracle of God makes the necessary communication among the people building the tower virtually impossible." This archaic parable evokes images that belong to the cultural memory of humanity. At the same time, it awakens memories of real encounters in everyone. It associates both apocalyptic fears and vague hope: What if people find their way back to a common language? Will they be able to work together again, and for what? Both groups involved, Offener Kunstverein Potsdam e.V. and Yoram Loewenstein Drama School in Tel Aviv, have one thing in common: They provide young people with access to art and culture through nonformal learning, shared experiences and personal development initiated through arts, especially theater performance and dance. What both groups also have in common is that they enable socially disadvantaged groups to participate. In the case of the Yoram Loewenstein Drama School, this means that it has a focus of its work in the "Hatikva" neighborhood, a disconnected suburb of Tel Aviv. There, acting students lead theater groups of children and young people from families living in poverty or at risk, refugees, or otherwise marginalized. Participants in the German group had the opportunity to view this work and be inspired by it for their own projects. "The tower of Babel" was developed as a project that collected and expressed voices from different cultural spaces based on an archaic parable. Participants explored the fragility, problems and opportunities inherent in human diversity. The basic idea of this project was that all participants would be able to make this project an important part of their personal development through non-formal and participatory learning.