With 25 years of experience in Haute-Auvergne, and a desire to open up our regions to cultural mobility for the benefit of young people and residents of our rural areas, drawing on unique methods based on artistic practices and an international network of youth organisations built up over the years with the aim of strengthening our capacities and expanding our means of action, we wanted to make this second year of Erasmus+ accreditation a year of adjustment and improvement after our first year of implementing our five-year plan, with the dual objective of renewing and internationalising our actions and activities, but also taking an increasingly important place in our youth sector through transmission and sharing with our peers and colleagues at different levels of intervention. We have expanded our consortium to 11 organisations and 9 countries, seeking complementarity between older, more experienced organisations and newer, more enthusiastic organisations with skills in particular in the digital and artistic fields, in order to work on both our youth exchanges and our mobility programmes for professionals. Our objectives therefore remain to work together to develop learning opportunities for young people and youth workers, while taking greater account of the digital transformation and modernisation needed both personally and professionally, not only for young people and youth workers, but also within our own associative and institutional environments. This desire to identify and develop our skills has resulted in the implementation of activities and mobility programmes that enable us to experiment with, share and pass on, from peer to peer, known or invented/renewed learning methods, always with the aim of better identifying, recognising and enhancing the skills of young people and youth workers. We have also set up these activities in order to strengthen our internal skills and capacities within our organisations, because, depending on each organisation's history, we had complementary needs in terms of networks, know-how, digital, artistic or methodological tools, and resources, which allowed for mutual enrichment in our youth sector and benefited our professional and societal environments more broadly. In the current dramatic and anxiety-provoking context for young people and for all of us, we believe it is imperative to keep alive this flame of European creativity and solidarity by diversifying our approaches and cross-contributions, pooling our strengths and remobilising ourselves rather than giving up in the face of the scale of the crises (environmental, democratic, migration), continuing to work ever more intensively at local level, but also at European and international level. However, this second year of accreditation has been challenging, as we have been somewhat thrown off course by two changes. Firstly, the change in the Erasmus+ programme's flat rates, which have increased, but also the capping of subsidies, which has made our mobility development forecasts impossible in relation to our 5-year roadmap, which predicted an increase in the number of training courses and mobility opportunities for youth workers in particular. Then, knowing that we wanted to keep the youth exchange programme open to as many young people as possible and for the summer of 2024, we were a bit lost as to what the amounts allocated for each type of mobility were, given that the agreement and the advance payment of subsidies arrived very late in the middle of the summer after months of preparation and only marginal adjustments, forcing us to make often painful choices and to rethink our planned activities (and this was exacerbated in 2025-2026 with €50,000 less than in 2024-2025). However, we made the necessary adjustments in order to continue working on our key themes (welcoming exiles from Ukraine and Africa, equal rights, taking action on the climate crisis and respect for life) by increasing the amount of time spent discussing and working within our consortium, but also by participating more in our professional networks (Cantal Youth Sector Working Group and accredited structures in France, closer ties with the Civic Service Agency), more actions and key information events for young people and professionals in the region (Commitment Day and Tomorrow's Europe Day) and in Europe with our partners, as well as for the general public through the many events created, which show that our involvement and actions are growing, in line with our roadmap for a sustainable Europe.