This project was designed as a continuation for our first project in Portugal in May 2024. We had a successful project that was planned by the Finnish group and the Portuguese group got motivated to plan their own YE that we could realize in Finland. It was very obvious that the collaboration and group process should be continued since the group had just started to work well together and everybody was motivated to realize a reciprocal YE. The topic of sustainable development and nature connection was something the Portuguese organization had been long working with and since we chose the location of Finnish Lapland it was very relevant topic to explore Finnish nature and issues such as climate change. The objectives for our project were: - Raising awareness about environmental issue and about the environmental richness of the places we live in - Get to know other cultures and realities, how different social groups look at environment and what kind of issues each country is facing - Develop the environmental mind of young people of different backgrounds (particularly of socially discriminated origins, such as the migrant youth who make out the Finnish group, and rural isolated group, who make out the Portuguese group) - Brainstorming ideas of this topic to come up with ideas to help the environmental situation of each country - Learning about new culture and respecting differences - Improving empathy skills and other social skills - Widening our perspectives and learning about new point of views - learning about new culture and respecting differences - improving empathy skills and other social skills - widening our perspectives and learning about new point of views - Improving participants’ self-esteem and trust in oneself - learning project skills and involving participants into planning, realization and dissemination of a project