In the accreditation, the Foundation identified many needs, project goals and statutory objectives that it wanted to achieve, while in organising the activity in the first year we focused on a few of them. The statutory objectives, which included the completed youth exchange: - to work for the development of local communities through the involvement of young people gathered around partner organisations and working for the benefit of local communities in Poland and abroad, - promoting lifelong learning by implementing youth exchanges for learners and those who have left formal education, using non-formal education methods, - taking action for equal opportunities for women and other social groups at risk of social exclusion, by involving persons belonging to groups at risk of exclusion and persons with fewer opportunities for economic, geographical and health-related reasons, - to take initiatives for the development of civil society, by supporting young people in achieving their objectives through the implementation of youth exchanges on the theme of critical thinking, - promoting young people's active citizenship and participation in democratic and public life, through the implementation of youth exchanges and dissemination activities in the local community, - taking action to promote young people in the labour market by implementing youth exchanges, strengthening key competences and granting them Youthpass certificates which they can use in the labour market, - taking action for European integration through the implementation of youth exchanges involving people from 5 European Union countries, exchange of experiences between participants, cultural exchange. The needs and difficulties identified in the accreditation to which the above objectives and implemented action corresponded: - to empower young people in society, in the labour market, to strengthen their position and relevance in decision-making processes at different levels of government (in particular those concerning youth policy); - to strengthen eight key competences in young people and to increase opportunities for personal and professional development, in particular in terms of critical thinking, strengthening citizenship and involvement in democratic life, media literacy, strengthening intercultural dialogue, - the development of results that will increase the awareness and knowledge of the indirect beneficiaries of the projects - the recipients of the dissemination activities; - the need to strengthen the capacities of young people, youth workers and the Foundation; - the increased importance of the Foundation in the Erasmus + environment and in the international NGO community; - the need for a stable source of funding for the activities planned by the Foundation within the framework of accreditation. The objective of the implemented youth exchange was to strengthen young people's key competences in critical thinking. The objective fits in with the following Erasmus objectives set out in the accreditation: Objective 1- By implementing youth exchanges using non-formal and informal education methods. Objective 2- By implementing youth exchanges in a thematic area related to critical thinking, social media and media literacy. Objective 3 - By implementing youth exchanges with 4 partners, including 3 new partners. Objective 6 - Through the implementation of the Foundation's objectives using funds from the European Union.