Youth exchange “Plant a tree” will happen in Murter, Croatia in the period between 22 – 31 May 2015. 49 participants from Croatia, Macedonia, Norway, Spain, Portugal, Poland and Romania will discover the meaning of trees in our lives and later decide to plant a tree for their future. For 9 days these youngsters will work on discovering the importance of trees, trees that Europe as a continent share, discovering diversity in trees and diversity in Europe, developing intercultural understanding and dialogue and at the same time planting their future. Main topic of the exchange will be environment with special accent on trees. Trees – they are all around us. They are part of our community, of our yard, of our life. Trees alter the environment in which we live by moderating climate, improving air quality, conserving water, and harboring wildlife. Climate control is obtained by moderating the effects of sun, wind, and rain. Radiant energy from the sun is absorbed or deflected by leaves on deciduous trees in the summer and is only filtered by branches of deciduous trees in winter. We are cooler when we stand in the shade of trees and are not exposed to direct sunlight. Trees have a big effect in our lives. Do we know their role? What will be life without trees? Why the old people usually say – plant a tree – plant your future? These are the questions that we will raise during the Youth exchange – “Plant a Tree”. Interesting creative and non-formal workshops based on the concept of learning by doing will be implemented and will provide participants opportunity to learn about nature, environment and how important is to take care of our planet. The project will provide a chance for youngsters to work together and explore a topic of their join interest, environment; chance to meet and share cultures, to recognize and accept diversity. Through the various educative, creative, practical workshops and non-formal methods of learning participants will practice their presentational, organizational, creative and animation skills, enrich their knowledge on environmental topics, learned how to reduce their footprint on the planet, how to preserve nature, they will listen to positive actions implemented on this topics, learn a lot about different cultures and traditions and practiced tolerance, respect and acceptance. Objectives of the project are to raise awareness about the meaning of environment and to promote protection of the environment we are sharing by giving a chance to 49 youngsters to take part in a project working on the theme trees around us; To promote sustainable development to 49 youngsters; To broaden participants knowledge about the meaning of the trees as a fundamental part of the environment we are living in; To motivate participants creativity to invent a booklet speaking about trees and aiming to raise awareness of trees to a wider audience; To promote Cultural diversity in Europe by giving an opportunity to 49 youngsters to experience other cultures while practically living and working for a common goal and to increase tolerance as well as to strengthen inter-cultural dialogue; To include the young people from multicultural, multiethnic and multipath backgrounds, young people coming from less development areas with fewer opportunity to travel/have the less chances to meet the culture of the other European countries. Final results of the project will be a local action for planting olive trees in the local community in Murter and local promotion on how important is planting trees for us; published booklet – explaining what the youngsters have learned during the exchange, easy and enjoyable to read that can be used as a tool in promotion of environmental protection; film that will speak about the exchange itself. Results of the project will be the participants that can be seen as multipliers that will transmit the knowledge gain to others, through the created educative booklet and movie published. Also, impact is expected on local level with the Plant a tree – Action day where local community will as well be involved in planting 49 olive trees in Murter, local communities in the countries involved where follow up activities are expected to be implemented by participants involved in the project.