FIRST BE HUMAN!PalermoBASIC INFORMATION: ACTIVITY DATES: from 17/10/2016 to 26/10/2016APV: from 08/09/2016 to 11/09/2016 LOCATION: Palermo, Sicily, Italy TEAM NUMBER: 5 Participants (age 18-30) + 1 leader per country DESCRIPTION OF THE EXCHANGE: TOPIC: Migrants’issue, awareness of migratory phenomenon, youth participation, communication skills. WORKING LANGUAGE: English COUNTRIES INVOLVED: Spain, French, Greece, Romania, italy GOAL – ACTIVITIES - IMPACT: Through the project FIRST BE HUMAN! the association YUD aims to educate young generations to be able to make good relations with migrants and in general with the most disadvantaged groups, taking a new perspective aimed to increase the sense of friendship and solidarity, breaking prejudice and stereotypes, which clearly lead to social tensions. Through non-formal education workshops and activities focused on the theme of multiculturalism, conceived as richness and not as a threat, participants will have the opportunity to experience different moments of shared reflection on this theme so that they will have the chance to express their opinions, ideas , fears. Through meetings, debates and round tables in which will also participate resident migrants, or by visiting and workin in shelter for migrants in Palermo, participants will have the opportunity to come into direct contact with the reality of immigration in the area, where landings are frequent.This project also aims to create a cultural space of exchange and dialogue in which all associations can share their experiences, describing the migrants’ situation in their countries. Different activities will allow the participants to be strictly in contact with the immigrants living in Palermo, to which they will do some interviews to understand the reasons that led them to leave their country coming in Europe. These interviews, together with the main activities of the exchange will be filmed, so that at the end the group will create a video which will be useful to spread the activities during the dissemination phase.