The main idea of this Youth Exchange is to gather people coming from various cultural,social and economical backgrounds and to use street arts and street dance in particularas a tool for giving young people with fewer opportunities a chance to gainintercultural communication and teamwork skills. MET ON THE STREETS OF MACEDONIA willconnect 41 young people from eight countries - Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia,Albania, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia and Poland - in unique experience of combiningcontrasts and differences. Participants will learn street dances of different stylesinspired by movements as hip-hop, break dance or salsa and create street performancewhere elements of the popular culture will be synthesized with folklore elements.With this project we wish to encourage other non-governmental organizationsaround all the Europe, working with YOUTH IN ACTION, to involve young people withfewer opportunities in their local and international activities. The exchange is the firststep to stimulate long-term cultural cooperation among two regions of the Europe thatat the present are not well connected: South Eastern Europe and Central-Eastern Europe.MET ON THE STREETS OF MACEDONIA will give us a platform for exchanging non-formaleducation tools and ideas and for increasing intercultural competence of the involvedyoung people. The project will take place in Macedonian capital Skopje and last for eight days.