Our motivation to carry out the youth exchange ‘Shakesperience: Theatre and drama to increase intercultural competencies’ was to provide young people with a special focus to be paid to the involvement of newcomers from Austria, North Macedonia, Bulgaria, Serbia, Greece, Türkiye and Italy an opportunity: -to increase their intercultural competencies; -to explore the topic of intercultural dialogue by using theatre as the main tool of intercultural learning. The youth exchange ‘Shakesperience: Theatre and drama to increase intercultural competencies’ had the following objectives: -to bring together 56 participants, including 28 young people with fewer opportunities to empower them by using theater as a tool of intercultural learning; -to include a minimum of 35 newcomers in the Erasmus + Programme from a total of 56 young people who took part in YE; -to provide the participants an opportunity to advance their intercultural competencies; -to increase the self-confidence of the participants and to enable them to effectively communicate and work with people coming from diverse cultural backgrounds: -to address the topic of stereotypes and prejudices and to provide the participants an opportunity to face their stereotypes and prejudices through theatre-based activities; -to raise knowledge of the participants on the Erasmus + Programme, non-formal learning, YouthPass and to empower them to be active in the field of international youth work; -to prepare theatre evenings for hosting local communities reflecting the experiences of the participants in the field of intercultural learning, addressing stereotypes and prejudices.