We are incredibly excited about the results of our first venture into Discover EU Inclusion and the opportunity to apply for further projects. Our organisation was founded to work with young people experiencing obstacles in their lives, bringing other local organisations on this journey with us. We currently work with young people experiencing barriers to inclusion due to social obstacles, offending histories, mental ill-health or alternative sexual orientations. We are able to make many of our mainstream projects accessible to them. Creating equity for our youth with fewer opportunities, is our main motivation to deliver this project. Each year we choose a focus 2024 this was sport, for 2025 our main focus will be youth in the criminal justice system, which is why we have included Inside Out as part of this project. This project includes 3 Discover EU Inclusion activities, a sports activity in Spain to follow up on what we started last year, another supporting music in the criminal justice system in Italy and a third one where our main aim will be the journey not the result EPB adventure, where we will take a group of 5 young people from our vocational college through the process of planning this expedition. The objectives of all these projects is to allow a group of 5 young people (x 3 projects) to leave Aruba for 1 or 2 weeks whilst they visit another European country. The projects will allow these 5 young people and two accompanying youthworkers to 'feel' Spain, Italy and another country yet to be determined, (and the countries they need to pass through to arrive there) to be immersed in the country, culture & lifestyle. We hope exposure for the first time to another EU country will help them to feel more European, embracing EU values and discovering that Europe is accessible to them. We imagine these activities will raise aspirations, break down barriers and allow participants to realise there are many opportunities available to them through Erasmus+ ESC. Through this project we will support 15 young people to embark on a learning journey they could never have imagined, that this participative project will be a transforming moment in their lives where they will experience their first exposure to Europe. They will be equipped with first hand knowledge of this country and be able to learn more about living in another country and the opportunities it can offer them for their future life choices. The projects will encourage intercultural dialogue we hope to arrange opportunities for both cultural and linguistic exchange as part of meeting another group of young people. Participants will be inspired in a field of sport or music which they are already passionate about. They will (possibly for the first time) be introduced to volunteering, first on a days local volunteering on Aruba which the team will create during the prep and planning where we will undertake a local volunteering day, then secondly in the host countries where we hope at least one day can be spent in a volunteering experience the group will select and arrange together. A further new experience for these young people, they will be responsible for the planning and preparation of their journey (both their personal and emotional journey and the physical journey they will embark on as a group). They will be supported but not led and for most of this small group, taking responsibility for such an experience will be a huge opportunity for growth. The main objective we have is inspiring a vision and interest in young people to find out more about the EU and opportunities which may be accessible to them, to inspire an interest and confidence that this opportunity is available to them and help them develop the confidence, skills and competences needed to embark on such an experience, initially within our supported group, but finally alone should they continue this international travelling journey in other ways following our Discover EU inclusion projects. For the first time these young people will be responsible for deciding their own learning journey and identifying what they want to learn and how they can do that. It may be the first experience for some of them that others consider value in what they achieve and someone compliments or congratulates their achievements. With this target group recognition is supremely important and we will recognise achievements throughout the planning and prep phase, in the daily meetings and in the final celebration where we present YOUTHPASS certificates. We will also further emphasise the importance of this recognition when back in Aruba during the follow up and reintegration where we will encourage young people to capitalise on their learning journey and work with local organisations to consider how we can further support young people to continue this learning journey.