Climate change is becoming a serious problem all over the world, but because countries of North Africa are dealing with post-revolution issues like creating functional democratic system, addressing security threats, dealing with high unemployment and general strikes all over the country, the challenges of environmental change are not given high priority. One of the biggest environmental problems of North Africa is desertification. As the Sahara desert is spreading, villages and arable land are turning into vast depleted areas. This forces farmers to move and find new places to live and grow crops for their livelihood, but the arable area is already very limited, so the desertification reduces one of the most important income of North Africa - agriculture. Particularly situation in Tunisia is alarming, that’s why we decided to locate the youth exchange in Tunis and particularly in the small city in Sahara dessert in order to raise awareness of local community and to create the biggest impact. Also we thought that because of quite small size of Tunisia, the implementation of the tools and outputs of the Youth Exchange would be easier to bring into practice. Same time Tunisia is the most open country of North Africa towards European values, so the project was a bridge between the youth from Europe and North Africa and created conditions for future cooperation and coexistence between these worlds and cultures. Despite desertification is a problem touching directly only few countries, we took it as a global problem and that we all need to act as one to tackle these issues and to reverse these climate changes. Unbalanced land use over different climatic zones creates more areas with depleted soil useless for agriculture which in consequence creates more negative social, economic and climate changes. The aim of the YE was to raise awareness and motivate young people to act on problems of desertification and other climate changes by introducing sustainable practices. So the objectives of the youth exchange were following: · To raise awareness about the problem of desertification. · To encourage young people to act locally to combat desertification and climate change and to empower them to act as agents of change for environmental and sustainable development · To learn about traditional ways and materials our ancestors were using before introduction of plastics and chemical fertilizers. · To introduce the techniques to effectively recycle and reuse our resources in daily life · to meet with local activist from the field of desertification and discuss with them the best practices to tackle these problems · to create online awareness campaigns and exchange ideas to raise awareness of the people about environmental issues · to raise awareness of young people about new ways of creating entrepreneurship ideas which are directly or indirectly related to the development of the circular economy