At the outset of this project, we made a number of observations: the many crises we have been through (COVID, war in Ukraine, energy, etc.) have alienated our ‘young’ audience, mainly from disadvantaged backgrounds, from art and culture. Some of them withdrew into themselves and dropped out of school and/or society. Little by little, by building workshops and projects for and by young people, we were able to attract them back to our association. This has enabled them to take a renewed interest in subjects such as music, photography and video. Supported by a relaunch grant from the Minister for Youth, our association was able to train its team of activity leaders and acquire high-performance equipment to set up activities tailored to the needs and expectations of young people. As youth workers in youth centres, we realised that young people's mental health was under threat and we wanted to use their interest in artistic themes to set up an international meeting project. The idea came about quite naturally, since before the COVID 19 pandemic, many young people in Viroinval had experienced European exchanges. We also wanted to help participants with fewer opportunities to discover and meet young people from other countries in all their dimensions. These young people had (and still have) a lack of skills and abilities to make themselves understood in a language other than their own. The aim of the project was to show that art could be used as a common language. Underpinned by the values of inclusion, solidarity and open-mindedness, the aims of the project were to promote encounters with others in all their dimensions, to encourage participants to develop a positive personal vision of the future, and to demystify culture and art. The whole process was sequenced to enable a gradual evolution towards the success of the project. Firstly, there was the process of making contact and setting common objectives with the partners before the visit. Then there was the week's residential stay in Belgium, during which a number of specific activities were planned (events and workshops to try out artistic techniques, cultural outings to encourage discovery and culture shock, informal and official meetings to build the group dynamic, time for (self-) evaluation to enable the young people and the group to assess their own situation). But there was also the production of a collective work at the end of the week, open to the local population, which enabled the participants to become more aware of what they had learned and to disseminate the results of the week. Finally, there was the return to everyday life and the finalisation of the project.