• Increasing knowledge of the participants on outdoor education;
• Supporting sharing of practices, experiences, methods and techniques of outdoor education and increasing the quality of youth work targeting young people with fewer opportunities in participants’ organizations;
• Providing outdoor learning experiences and to nurture awareness, appreciation, and stewardship for the environment;
• Motivating participants to develop positive attitudes toward learning through varied experiences in the natural environment

Working Methods: The youth exchange will be based on a holistic experiential education model – experiential learning cycle described by Kolb (1984). First, participants will be asked to undertake an activity. Next, they will reflect on what happened and why, how. Follow up by reflecting on transferring these experiences in their practices and realities. The youth exchange will contain behavioral simulations, activities based on theatre technique, role plays, outdoor exercises, case studies and problem-solving, group discussion, small groups, displays and field trips, etc.

Regularly, the youth exchange will be also included feedback and reflection activities (group meetings, mid-term and final evaluation, individual assignments). These activities will provide them with an opportunity to develop their competencies to receive and give feedback as well as to reflect on the self-learning process, meeting the settle learning objectives.

Participants of the youth exchange will have the following profile:

• Age 18 to 30 residence of participant’s countries; aware of the positive impact of outdoor education on youth development and are strongly interested to gain deeper insight into the influence of outdoor education on self-esteem, self-awareness;
• strongly interested to explore the topic of outdoor education and how to deal with challenges connected with it.
• interested to get to know outdoor education practices from other countries and learn from their peers how to work with outdoor activities in an effective way e.g. in increasing awareness on certain issue/topic that is applying for them;
• ready to work in a mix-intercultural learning environment, to contribute to successful project implementation;
• motivated to work on the development of their personal and professional competencies in an international setting (communication, teamwork, problem-solving, conflict management, facilitation, and presentation);
• motivated to take part in Erasmus + project, work in an international team and share their experiences in follow up period;