Youth Exchange
01-10 December 2017, Larnaca, Cyprus
Improve yourself! is a Youth Exchange that involves 24 participants and 7 leaders coming from Cyprus, Estonia, Romania, FYROM, Spain and United Kingdom. The project is set to take place in Larnaca, Cyprus. The participants will be youngsters, aged 16-24 years, and will come from disadvantaged backgrounds. The project was born to address the need of youngsters to acquire more essential information for their development than is offered in the formal education system. The project focuses on 3 main areas of development for young people: body, mind and soul. The 3topics are tackled through non formal methods which require full involvement of the participants. The project will start by addressing issues of the body, appearance, then smoothly passing to communication skills, time management and life management skills. The soul will not be forgotten, participants will discover how to meditate and the advantages of regularly practicing mind relaxation as well as how to connect with nature. And the picture would not be complete, if we would not address the issues of how to learn for an exam, how to prepare and sustain a job interview. And there is more to this in today’s youngsters’ life, the need to understand how their behavior on social media can influence them and why volunteering and lifelong education are indispensable. As a result of several competences and awareness, the participants will develop short and long term development plans that will include the 3 dimensions mentioned: body, mind and soul.