The Municipality of Cornedo Vicentino, in Veneto region - Italy, wish to promote an international Youth Exchange, as non formal education experience, in order to foster active youth participation and mobility abroad. The present proposal intends to enrich the successful local "Poetry's Festival" as tool to promote youth participation, culture and european citizenship, linking the local level to the global, and build with associations and youngsters, an innovative and original project with a huge impact at european level. The title of the project is "APACHE: Active PArticipation through Creative Hand and Elettronic-writings"The "creative writing" will be the main tool to achieve the goals of the project:- to promote the personal competences of participants, increasing their artistic skills, their knowledge and intercultural learning- to be aware of serious social topics, as the relevance of youth participation in rural areas and the application of new artistic forms to foster the involvement of young people.The activities proposed are creative writing's workshops, readings, implementing of a collective story together with the local community, study visits and theatre performances.The outcomes of the project will be a Novel created by participants and a "Hundred hands' story", an experiment of common writing with the local community. Both this products will be spread as e-books on the main online stores.The Youth Exchange will be held in Cornedo Vicentino (Italy) from the 29thof July till the 6th of August 2016 and will involve 37 young people from Italy, Hungary, Croatia, Spain, Portugal and Bulgaria.