By implementing the project, we wanted to create a space for young people entering adulthood to experience Europe in a conscious, reflective and creative way. Our goal was to enable them to undertake a journey that is not merely moving from place to place, but becomes a deep learning process – about the world, about others, and above all about themselves. The project arose from the belief that immersion in cultural diversity, contact with living art and daily life in new contexts can become a catalyst for personal, social and artistic development, as well as an impulse to build the competences essential for contemporary young Europeans. We primarily aimed to support young people with fewer opportunities – individuals who are sensitive, neurodivergent, or facing economic, social and health-related barriers, often at risk of various forms of exclusion. These are young creators with significant potential but limited access to opportunities that may be commonplace for their peers: international travel, contact with an international environment, exposure of their artistic work, participation in cultural life beyond their local context. Our goal was to level the playing field and provide them with a safe, supportive space for development. We also intended to develop key competences identified in the European reference framework: social and intercultural competences, language skills, civic competences, ecological awareness, organisational and economic skills, as well as soft skills such as resilience, communication, independence and self-reflection. The mobility was meant to become a place for practical training of these skills: on trains, in hostels, museums, during meetings with artists, art academy students, curators and local residents. Our intention was not simply to “travel”, but to learn through real-life situations, decisions and encounters. An integral goal of the project was also working with the participants’ creativity – developing their artistic and visual competences through daily sketching, photographing and note-taking. Each participant was encouraged to keep a visual travel journal, serving both as a tool for reflection and as the foundation for the later exhibition. The sketchbooks became vehicles of observation, exercises in mindfulness and a way of translating experience into visual language. We wanted creativity to be at the heart of the mobility, not an added element. Another goal was to deepen European awareness – understood not as a set of slogans, but as an identification with a community of values, an understanding of diversity, and an awareness of the historical and social context in which we function as EU citizens. Travelling through Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Moldova, Bulgaria, Greece and Cyprus was meant to show participants the tangible reality of Europe as a space of coexistence, dialogue and shared responsibility. We also aimed to prepare young people to make conscious use of European mobility opportunities in the future – both educational and professional. Therefore, the project included training on ecological and economic travel, a workshop on intercultural competences, and extensive logistical preparation. We wanted the trip not to be a one-off experience, but the beginning of a self-directed and courageous journey through European opportunities. The artistic goals of the project culminated in its finale: a professional exhibition of participants’ works at MSK Polesie – Ośrodek Sztuki in Łódź, included in the programme of the ŁÓDŹ ART NOW festival. We wanted young people to experience the professional exhibition process, including installation, curatorial decisions, meeting the audience and participating in an accompanying workshop. This was important because their creative work often exists in isolation and remains unseen – and presenting it in a cultural institution strengthens their sense of agency, value, competence and belonging to the world of art. The project also had a methodological dimension: we wanted to test, refine and describe our model of conscious, attentive leadership in youth work. This was one of the reasons behind the creation of an additional publication that shares the philosophy and practice of working with young people in mobilities. Its aim was to support other leaders and organisations wishing to work with young creators not only safely, but also deeply, responsibly and developmentally. Finally, through two full 21-day mobilities, involving a total of seven young creators, we wanted to create a real, long-lasting space for experience, conversation and reflection. Spending so many days together allowed participants to enter a process that cannot be achieved in shorter activities: fatigue, awe, conflict, creativity, crises, moments of opening and closing – all of these created an authentic context for growth. This depth, which appears only after many days of shared journeying, was one of the key goals of the project.