Our forthcoming project continues the partnership initiated in 2019 between the German and Georgian organisations. Building on three successfully implemented youth exchanges in 2023, 2024 and 2025 in both countries, we are preparing a fourth, two-side youth exchange project, planned for autumn 2026 and winter 2027 with the active participation of young people from both countries. On the one hand, young people in Europe and neighbouring countries growing up in fast-moving, digitalised world, have access to a lot of information and learn to understand the world within global contexts. On the other hand, they often have few opportunities to meet peers from different cultures in a meaningful and direct way. Online interactions are quick and easy and help to stay in touch, even if they are living in different parts of the world, but they usually stay on the surface and do not give young people chances to learn and discover roots of the complexities that cultures are inherent. Our project will help to fill this gap by providing a safe, inclusive and hands-on learning environment for young people from both countries, where they can meet, interact, shape a project environment, where they can learn and create new ways of understanding the world they are living in with non-formal and artistic methods. They will explore cultural diversity, social values and identity through a mix of topic-related discussion and practical art related workshops. Participants will talk about traditions, their daily lives, habits and social norms, about the cultures there are living in and will discuss on questions about cultural heritage: How cultures are shaped, from the past, from the present and how they will develop in the future? With an overall perspectives on these different time lines, we will use these ideas in creative activities where they can express themselves and learn from each other. With this project we aim to create a learning environment where youngsters can explore cultural identities, traditions and history, values, concepts of living together in diverse societies through both, theoretical and practical, art related hands-on workshops. During the mobility in Georgia, the programme will focus on traditional and everyday cultural practices, shaped by history and traditions through pottery workshops using natural and polymer clay, cooking workshops exploring food as cultural expression, mosaic and creative textile reuse activities. They will contextualize then in the present and will put them in the context of a future, that might be even more digitalized then today. During the mobility in Germany, the program will further focus on the workshop outcomes from this first chapter of the project, offering a performance-bodywork workshop, a stop-motion film workshop as well as art and sculpture construction using plaster, textiles and upcycled materials. The ways of working are different one to the other in the workshops, as they are using different techniques and approaches - nevertheless the concept of the two project rounds and the goals are staying the same: Connecting young people from different parts of Europe in unique venues and setting a frame, where they can actively participate and engage themselves, discussing about culture related questions with artistic approaches. The planned two project locations will offer different learning experiences: In Georgia, at Algeti National Park, participants will work in a nature-based, rural environment, focusing on traditional crafts and sustainability directly in the venue. In Germany, in a smaller town (we are planning to implement the project in Görlitz), they will explore a different venue, situated in a historic old town, where history, every day culture, contemporary art and culture spaces for young people are close to each other. These two settings will help participants to see how culture is shaped by place, history and the daily life and encourage them to compare and reflect on different lifestyles, also by reflecting on differences and similarities in both venues. The aim here is not to evaluate these lifestyles, but rather to recognize and reflect on the diversity of life concepts, cultures and everyday practices in all their complexity. Participants should thus gain new perspectives, develop their critical reflection skills, and engage in discussion with other peers. Our project has following objectives: - to explore how culture is shaping identities and daily lifes, also contemporary questions about cultural heritage - to promote intercultural understanding and dialogue between young people from different parts in Europe - to develop creative skills through hands-on workshops in arts, performance, pottery, cooking, upcycling, film making - to ensure inclusion and equal opportunities for young people with fewer opportunities, enhancing access to intercultural learning - foster collaboration, teamwork and problem-solving through joint artistic activities