<< Objectives >>After our successful first Youth Exchange (Human Rights. For Everyone! Everywhere! - 19-K11-026) we want to use the experiences that we have made by planning, preparing and implementing this project to give even more teenagers the chance of participating in such a Youth Exchange. We stick to the key ideas of our past project (topic: human rights, target group: minor participants with fewer opportunities), but redraft the project proposal from scratch and utilize our gained experiences to improve this project, to adapt it even better to the participant's needs and to enhance and refine the non-formal learning methods used.With this project, we strive to give young people from Austria and Romania the opportunity to meet in a safe space, to acquire intercultural experiences and competencies and to form new cross-border friendships. They should be able to deal with the important topic of human rights and the principles of liberal democracy, and we especially want to impart the core values behind these subjects. We would like to see our participants integrating these values in their daily thinking and acting to facilitate a long-term impact on their own lives and their social environment. Our teenagers should be enabled to stand up for their own rights, but should also be encouraged to respect the rights of their fellows and to defend their rights as well, while also reflecting on their own behaviour towards other human beings. We want to support our participants in their development to open-minded individuals who see diversity as a chance. Participating in this Youth Exchange will have a positive effect on their personal development and will increase their self-confidence and self-esteem. Moreover, it is our goal to see significant improvements of the participant's level of English, which is facilitated by the cross-country communication during this project.Besides that, we also want to contribute to European Integration and build, even if just on a small scale, new bridges in Europe. Furthermore, we seek to emphasize the importance of solidarity and mutual respect in a community. This Youth Exchange and the values imparted by it should animate the young people to become responsible and participating citizens who actively take part in political decision making processes on all political levels.<< Implementation >>For five days, the teenagers deal with human rights and other connected subjects (children's rights, gender equality), before they finally develop their own ideas about how to make the world a better place. For this purpose, we are using a diverse mixture of non-formal / informal learning methods. We design our activities in a way to make sure that the project is mostly based on what is coming from the participants (i.e. their own ideas and opinions). At first, there will be various, playful activities to allow them to get to know each other. During the whole week, we include games in our agenda, which should enhance group dynamics, concentration and communication and which often have an indirect connection with the topic of human rights. Besides dealing with the main subject, there certainly is enough time to discover the city center of Vienna and to allow the participants to explore the city on their own in groups by doing a Selfie-Rallye. At the end of the week, we don't want to miss the opportunity to have a final picnic at the Donauinsel. Another important aspect are daily reflexion activities that allow us to support the young people in digesting their intercultural experiences and to make them aware of their learning progress. These reflexion activities also enable us to gather important feedback for our ongoing evaluation and for necessary adaptations.We want to make it possible for 10-12 participants from Austria and 10-12 participants from Romania to take part in this project, and they should be accompanied and supported by 4 group leaders/trainers. Our participants are mainly youths with fewer opportunities (for example generally socially and economically disadvantaged, low education, minorities, refugees). For most of them, this will be their first stay abroad ever and the Erasmus+ grant is crucial for their ability to participate in this project.While our focus is clearly on the mentioned young people with fewer opportunities and our project is adapted to their needs, it is still important for us to also have participants with less or no disadvantages and with a higher level of education, as we see this as an important key to inclusion and we believe that this allowes the participants to learn from each other and to help each other overcoming language barriers.<< Results >>Our expectation is that this project will have a strong an long lasting impact on our participants and their lives, but we also hope to see further impacts on the teenagers' environment (their friends, family and other people around them). The young people participating in this Youth Exchange will, first of all, make extensive intercultural experiences and will therefore acquire intercultural competencies. They also will deal with the subject of human rights and the princples of democracy, but they will also discuss how to live together peacefully in a society that includes everybody. By learning about human rights and the underlying core values, they will integrate these values in their daily thinking and acting, facilitating a long-term impact on their own lives and their social environment. In the course of our activities, they will become more aware about their own rights and will also be encouraged to respect and defend the rights of their fellow human beings. Additionally, participating in this project will have a very positive effect on their personal development and will increase their self-confidence and their self-esteem. We also expect the participants' level of English to improve due to the cross-country communication.We expect an impact on the teenagers' environment because the participants take the experiences and the imparted values home to their friends, family and to all the other people around them. That way, every single young person participating in this project becomes a little multiplicator.Furthermore, we expect a positive impact on organizations and individuals concerned with implementing this project by gaining new experiences, acquiring additional competencies in youth work and in realizing international projects and by learning about new perspectives during the exchange with international partners.We certainly won't change the world with this little project, but we can change the world of our young participants - this is our goal and this is the terrific feeling that gives us the energy to prepare and carry out this Youth Exchange.