"Cultures that MOVE" is the Erasmus+ Key Action 1 Project - Youth Exchange aiming to raise awareness on migration issues and create space for open dialogue, inter-cultural understanding, mutual respect and acceptance of diversity between young people in our countries. We would like to empower European youth, by enabling them to raise their cultural awarenesses through a mix of methods of Non-formal learning and using different tools for learning and sharing information. By this Youth Exchange we provide space and time to our participants to share their life stories and experiences to enhance their mutual understanding, better inter cultural communications, networking, and friendship.Project objectives are:- To learn about problems resulting from mass emigration- To identify best practice in integration and inclusion of migrants, particularly with reference to East-West migrants- To share examples of successful integration projects for young migrants implemented in EU countries- To address negative portrayal of migrants and migration in media and public opinion- To develop future projects for young migrants using Erasmus+ Programme opportunitiesThe needs that are addressed in this project are: information on migration issues among young people in Europe, inter-cultural understanding among young people in europe, raising tolerance and solidarity, using new methods and tools for sharing the information and learning, enhancing life skills and competences among young people to support growth and innovation for the future of European community.Groups of of 6 participants plus one group leader will be selected in each partner country. Project will be organized during 22-30 April 2016 in Naujoji Akmenė, Lithuania. The daily program is designed for 7 working days plus 2 travel days. Using non-formal education methods we will offer participants wide variety of interactive workshops, presentations and discussion platforms comprising blogging, graphical designing, and video production we will share information targeted at our local communities and European citizens in general, raising awareness on migration issues all over Europe.As an outcome of our project we expect that participants will use the new skills and competences to increase their intercultural sensitivity, become more tolerant and respectful toward other European cultures and become more active in their communities and organizations.The working methods will include:- Small group discussion- Group presentations- Individual presentations- Multimedia presentations- Media content analysis- Theatre methods- Energizers- Ice-breaking activities- Outdoor activities- Team-building activities,- Exchange of experiences,- Guest speakers- Discussion platforms,- Cultural activities,- Social media skills- On-going evaluationThe information about the project will be disseminated widely through Online platforms like action blogging, facebook, youtube, pinterest, twitter, instagram, partner organization's web pages. The outputs and overall results of the project will be available to anyone – all over the world. In addition, we want to make a common exhibit of the results in each partner organization after the end of the project.For the future perspective , the project will have a long term impact on locally and internationally on personal and organizational level in partner countries by multiplying effect of educating young people with ‘pass it on’ strategy. The learning outcome of the project will be an increased knowledge and experience of young people migration issues, inter-cultural dialogue, human rights and common European values and Erasmus+ programme.