The youth exchange will bring together 56 young people and 8 youth leaders equally representing the UK, Lithuania, Russian Federation and Belarus to the Republic of Bashkortostan, Russia for 11 days from the 18th till the 28th of August 2014. The theme of this youth exchange is the empowerment of the young motivated volunteers to create replicable models and transferable practices of publicizing the values of sports volunteering using artistic means as an advanced level of self organisation, socialization and youth participation. We believe that volunteer activism in developing grassroots sports is the most successful and innovative way to engage young people in healthy lifestyles, demonstrate and promote healthy behaviours and create opportunities for them. The concrete objectives of the exchange will include: improving self-organisation and responsibility-taking skills of every participant; promoting healthy behaviours, social inclusion and active participation of young people in society; creating presentations in promoting the concept of sports volunteering and volunteer activism in developing grassroots sports in a creative way; increasing the participation by young people with fewer opportunities in the civic life of their community. The venue of the youth exchange in the Republic of Bashkortostan republic , Russia was chosen as a vivid example of multinational and multicultural area where different minority groups live including Bashkirs. In this area particular attention is given to the development of voluntary youth work and promotion of the idea of healthy lifestyle. The republic actively supports sports volunteering projects together with a wide network of youth organisations active in this field. The proposed youth exchange has an extensive role of the peer led groups approach as most of the workshops will be led by those young people that have former experience of local projects, youth exchanges or EVS with other partners and have built their own position within their youth organisations on active involvement in the previous youth projects. Now some feel the capacity to promote their achievements in the international cooperation project by building up new sustainable links/networks and promoting the idea and values of sports volunteering using creative artistic means to advance the level of participation of young people with fewer opportunities in volunteering for inclusion through non - competitive games and sports. The young people - participants of the exchange will have different experiences in intercultural contacts from nil to quite experienced peer leaders and ex EVS volunteers. By using knowledge and experience got during the previous projects and involving suitable methods and ensuring that the project is firmly rooted within the local community, we hope that this youth exchange will give the possibility of reaching out to young people with fewer opportunities through sports volunteering in Europe. Educational objectives of this youth exchange are to be reached rather by real experience together in the group than by theoretical inputs. The methods of non formal education such as using facilitated discussion, developing positive relations and delivering projects will engage young people in the exchange. These methods increase active participation and empowerment of young people with fewer opportunities to make changes in their lives and promote equality of opportunity, diversity and sharing experiences. One of the project’s aims is also to develop cooperation with the Neighbouring Partner countries : the Erasmus+ programme opportunities will be also explored and promoted which will lead to follow-up projects and usage of the skills gained during this exchange in terms of paying more attention to the topics of results dissemination and Transfer of Knowledge. The project also contains a feature of motivating local young people to participate in dissemination activities and explore volunteer activism in developing grassroots sports together with peers.