Ten years ago, youngsters from Olde Vechte’s network came up with an idea of dance projects, to move together and learn dance styles from each other. At that time, it turned out to be a great initiative. Everyone was able to move, regardless of their educational background or dance skills. Everyone could join a dance and, with that, brought their own way of moving. Experienced and less-experienced dancers could always learn from each other and co-create choreographies and performances. Learning by moving significantly engaged youth in doing things together and helped them connect. It also showed to help inclusion and overcome barriers, like linguistic or cultural. This is why Olde Vechte integrated movement as one of their main methods in learning and put efforts to create space for it. We invested in constructing the Barn (a building with a 150 m2 activity room), sound systems, and soft floor puzzles. Over the years, we took care that it was accessible for young people to come and use it for their activities and learning. By implementing Make Your Move!, we supported youth initiatives and promoted movement as a learning tool for inclusion. In the first place, the project concept came from people in partners’ networks, some who've been to Olde Vechte before. They wanted to dance together and mix it with other art forms, like movie making or painting. They created a Telegram group and exchanged a Google form to collect ideas that were later included in the project application. Their main motivation was to make new international friends, share their interests, learn new ways of expressing and creating, and discover opportunities that Erasmus+ offers. It became a great opportunity to respond to the gap in youth work that we noticed in the past: In the Netherlands, youth work for people from the age group 16+ is barely existing. There are many organisations working with children, but older youth doesn’t get enough support of this kind, especially in the countryside. This lack impacts most youth with fewer opportunities. And it’s not a separate case of the Netherlands - young people miss out on inclusive, accessible learning opportunities all around Europe. And so, we joined the youth initiative with organisational support, helped create space for international dance exchange and put special focus on engagement and activation of youth with fewer opportunities. As a result, a group of 43 participants from 7 countries joined, including 31 youngsters coming from disadvantaged backgrounds. For many, this was a unique opportunity to go out of their environment, make new friends, learn new hobbies and gain confidence to organise activities for others. The group came together and co-created their collective experience. They organised for each other activities, exchanged interests in movement, dance, and digital forms like making videos, reflected on their learning, took care of their living space, and eventually used all what they learned to create short movies addressing socially relevant topics, that they shared later on in their follow-up actions. It didn't matter the level of skills, background or education – each person was welcome to join and exchange – a movement, national dance, idea for activity, etc. The group learned how to include each other, without judging skills. Instead, they focused on moving and doing things together, and this became their common language. They learned in an intercultural group, and so appreciated their diversity, challenged stereotypes, and highlighted the richness of cultures, backgrounds and identities. They created their identity as an EU youth community. In a ripple effect, participants came back home and multiplied youth initiative on a local level. Full of new inspiration, confident to take initiative and ready to engage others, they organised local actions and shared their movies. This helped them spread the atmosphere of MYM! They created, showed others how movement and youth initiative can be used for learning and inclusion, and inspired local youngsters to actively engage in their communities. The objectives were to: - gather 42 participants & prioritize participation of youth with fewer opportunities; - use movement as the main tool; - encourage youth initiative; - create platform for intercultural exchange; - support participants’ personal growth, competence development, physical & mental wellbeing; - produce & share creative content to support active engagement & inclusion in communities; raise awareness about socially relevant topics; - cooperate with partners & local actors who work with FO youth, to improve methodology and international cooperation.