ARTisIN is a project for youngsters with fewer opportunities that aimed to encourage and enhance their social inclusion and active participation, as well as, provide tools and methods for nurturing mental health, by using the expressive arts as the main learning tool. The project idea started from the pre-identified needs of young people with fewer opportunities, emphasizing the connection, peer-learning environment and creative tools and methods for fostering social inclusion and overall mental-health. With “ArtIsIn” we created a learning context where young people from different backgrounds and cultures came together to co-create, learn from one-another and share best practices, using the expressive arts as the main tool. In an era where digital technologies and the internet are at a mass adoptation scale, further integrating in the daily lives of the youth population, creating learning mobilities thorugh non-formal and informal approaches is cultivating a sense of presence and peer connection, while fostering learning and growth. During the exchange, we created a safe and inclusive environment where participants could express themselves, explore various ways of communication and self-expression, cultivate creativity and a sense of initative, fostering teamwork and collaboration, all while co-creating their learning experience. The general objectives of the projcet were: • To bring 8 Group Leaders, one per partner organization, to prepare the Youth Exchange in all its aspects • To bring 32 youngsters coming from a vulnerable background (age 18-30) and 8 GL to share and exchange best practices, while taking part in expressive arts activities • To create an international environment in which the youngsters are co-living and taking care of the space together, and thus create a sense of community and belonging • To increase communication, cooperation, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills, in a space where they feel safe to express themselves through artistic practices • To break down barriers, prejudices, and stereotypes, and foster intercultural dialogue, tolerance, acceptance, and understanding of different cultures, diversity, and other perspectives, while working together in a group, using artistic practices as a tool while actively taking part in reflection sessions • To enrich the learning experience of the youngsters and encourage creativity, self-expression, critical thinking, and overall essential life skills, by creating a non-formal context for personal and professional growth • To increase the sense of initiative and active participation by doing simple tasks and organizing activities for one another • To let the youngsters create and disseminate several products to spread the project results and outcomes, this includes, an interactive event/festival, one article/partner organization about the project, and social media updates • To create 8 expressive arts activities within the local community- 1/partner organization • To ensure that the evaluation of the learning happens throughout the project through 40 Youth Passes and 40 questionnaires