If translated into English, the phrase "Creo en un mundo mejor" means "I believe in a better world". This pun relies on the polysemy of the word "Creo" which means either 'I create' or 'I believe' in Spanish language. As we understand it, such name encompasses the very essence of a project that wants to bring together a group of young people from a small village of Spain and a group of youths from Catania (Sicily) to join forces and operate in a risk area of Catania. It is just in areas like Librino that young people have to learn how to "believe" in a better world and put themselves at work to "create" it. The aim of this exchange is to raise young people's awareness of life conditions in Librino, and stimulate reflections which might lead to proposals for the enhancement of life opportunities of people who live in it. The number of participants will be 25 (15 from Spain and 10 from Italy) and their age will be between 14 and 23. Although they come from areas that have a great deal in common in terms of history and culture, the young participants are remarkably different in the associative experience they come from: if the Spanish group is a solid, long-term cooperating group which has weekly meetings to implement activities of social relevance in their local context, the group from Catania directly experiences the condition of social dismemberment which often leads a great many of their coeds to social exclusion and criminality. The project will adopt non-formal education as its didactic methodology to carry out crucial sections such as ice-breaking, team building and evaluation. The activities foreseen by the project, diverse and varied in content and methods, are: - NEWSPAPER THEATRE: a lab will be conducted including a section focused on physical exercise, a section dedicated to interviews to locals, and a final analytical phase through which the context will be examined closely. The theatrical activities will lead to a final performance shaped to the tecniques of teatro-forum; more specifically, locals from Librino will have the chance to participate in the performance thus breaking the conventional boundaries of reality and fiction along with those of actors and audience. - SOCIAL GARDENS: the young participants will meet the people from Librino who joined the "social gardens" initiative and decided to spare a piece of urban space for shared cultivation. They will be able to work side by side with them and inherit the tools needed to implement this innovative and challenging social initiative in their local context. - STREET ART: the young participants will be able to paint one or more graffiti inside the venue of the project under the guidance of youth leaders skilled in the sector. Also, they will create logos and symbols of the exchange on which they will later work during the serigraphy lab to finally print them out. All the above mentioned practices will be underpinned by two crosscut activities, namely: -WEB RADIO: at the end of each day, the participants will dedicate some time to reflections and result spreading via web radio broadcasting which will take place either in Catania city (where broadcasting normally takes place) or in the venue project. This activity will bolster the participants' understanding of what they have done throughout the day, it will offer them a space for reflection and evaluation, and will enable them to communicate the outcomes to a significantly wide audience. - HARI PLATFORM: This platform will be deployed as a support tool during other activities, e.g. collection of pictures taken all day through, creation of the script for the radio broadcasting, arrangement of the radio recordings in order to make them available on the web, etc. The project "Creo en un mundo mejor" as a whole is principally aimed at spurring the participants to mould their own view of the world, become able to discuss it with other people, and act to turn it into reality. The results that we envision for this project are connected to the young participants' awareness and ability to perform in their reality: we expect them to grow more open-minded, to develop tools to face their reality and understand that of others. Furthermore, we envision a significant increase in their mobility, albeit European mobility; we expect them to become active citizens and, given the specific focus of this project, to become aware of what mafia is today: its international dimension, its capacity to take advantage of social unease as well as wealth. On a long-term perspective, the project will revolutionize the way the term "mafia" is conceived of along with the stereotypes that shape it, in order for the Spanish group to recognize how this phenomenon affects their own country and for the Catania group to learn how to combat it more effectively. Finally, the impact we foresee for this project is an increased motivation on the part of all young people to work on their local contexts.