H.E.Y. – Healthy European Youth

The youth exchange H.E.Y aims to bring together 20 young people from 4 different European countries and give them opportunity to promote a healthy lifestyle during the project. The project will be held in May 2017 in a lush village named Brtonigla in the area of Istria, Croatia and in Umag, a small coastal town along the Adriatic Sea well known as a touristic-sport destination. The aim of this project is to draw young people’s attention to serious contemporary problems connected with health-related issues in the world, namely obesity and lack of indoor activities. Additionally, the youth exchange H.E.Y spring up from the fact that today we live in increasingly multicultural societies, so we need to promote intercultural dialogue and intercultural competences. During the project activities, participants will have the opportunity to enrich their skills and competences through non-formal learning methods (workshops, outdoor activities, discussions) in order to stimulate a new way of thinking and best practices of healthy lifestyle, mutual team support as well as cultural awareness and active citizenship. They will be stimulated to think ‘out of the box’ in order to develop new ideas and to promote group activities for health lifestyle. The project will have a tangible impact on the participants by developing their nutrition/fitness/healthy habits, skills and knowledge, and also on promoters themselves for getting to know partner organisations that will lead to future collaborations.