• ‘Opportunties on Board’ is a youth exchange between Tipperary Regional Youth Service in Ireland and 15 from Greece. Growing out of an idea initially formed during an international seminar on youth employment, the project centres on young people developing a healthy leisure time both physically, mentally and in terms of active citizenship as part of an alternative use of their free time. Participation of young people in making decisions about their own lives is a key element of the project. Key objectives include exposing our young people to new experiences and opportunities, learning about Europe, engaging in informal learning as a key element of youth work, to develop interpersonal and life skills, and learn how to be peer leaders and impact our organisations positively. There are 14 young people participating, who come from a range of backgrounds. The young people have fewer social and economic opportunities and this project is a real way for them to devleop their skills and atticitued, both in terms of personal development, active citizenship and employability. Activitites will include participating in physical leisure time activities, programmes to develop mindfulness and resilience and the participation in a youth leadership programme. Methodologies will include group work, self directed learning, multimedia activiteis and planning and participation in porgrammme development. The project will result in young people who have a greater understanding of themelves and of other young people from Europe, will result in more confident and socially aware young people who have changing attitudes about the opportunites and options available to them, and will result in young people who are more positive about their future and what they can do to influence it. It will also impact on the participating organisations who will learn more about participation, policy making and the benefits of international work as a key component to our youth work practice.