CEIPES Turkey is planning to host the Youth Exchange “CO4CA Communication for Community Action” in Palermo from 15rd to 26th of June with 10 days of activities plus 2 travel days. The youth exchange will gather 32 young people from 6organizations (5 participants + 1 group leader from each organization): Turkey, Poland, Italy, Romania, Hungary, Greece. This project starts from the idea that young people are a major human resource for development and key agents for social change and democratic advancement of the society. Participation in decision-making processes and in local actions for community development is a key priority area of the European Union agenda on youth and of many other institutions. However, the importance of support for citizenship learning in civil society is not sufficiently recognized, and this area is generally under-resourced. The people who suffer most from this are those most vulnerable to social exclusion. With this activity CEIPES network believes this trend can be changed. Participants will be constituted by young people from 18 up to 30 years old, including disadvantaged youth with fewer opportunities, motivated to act as community developers and act as agents of change in the society. Most of the activities will be realized inodemis and neighborhood, a disadvantaged area of Odemis where CEIPES Turkey works in cooperation with other stakeholders as schools and parish. The main aim of the project is to bring a change to local communities through the realization of projects coming from the initiative of youngsters, who will use social media as main tools. Specific objectives: • To involve youngsters through peer-to-peer, non-formal education and learning by doing methodologies, fostering their capacity to cooperate and to work in a multicultural environment. • To empower and motivate young women and men, make them aware of their strengths and supporting them in making changes within their neighborhood or town. • To involve youth in planning and implementing a communication campaign that can bring a change in the society; The program of the YE is planned to give the participants the necessary tools to develop their competences in analyzing the needs of the community and to create a social campaign that can contribute to bring a change in the neighborhood. All the activities will be based on non-formal methods and focused on active participation: the participants will be invite to actively experiment alternative behaviors and gain their own awareness of active citizenship: this way they will be able to act as multipliers of these principles and actions in their territories. Art, dances, visits, role plays and team works will be used on order to take into consideration all the learning needs and approaches of the participants and give them the chance to express themselves in different ways. Most of the workshops will see the involvement of the local community at different levels and referring to different generations: children, adults and older people. The YE will have a great impact on the whole population of Danisinni neighborhood and the entire city of Palermo. Besides, the final product constituted by a social campaign realized by the same participants, will reach a high number of citizens, in Italy and in Europe. All the involved group to the YE, once will be back in their own countries, will be supported by CEIPES and their sending organizations, to look at their neighborhoods and to realize a small project for their developments using social media. Besides, it is known that the skills and knowledge that active citizens develop in one area are frequently transferred into other areas. So all the competences gained during the project will be used by the participants to cgrow up at personal and professional level in other fields. This project will finally allow young people to hope in the future, to foster an open-mind towards other cultures and to feel European citizen thanks to the belonging to a strong and diversified network at European level.