The idea of the project "Roots" came out while the cooperation of the organizers in the framework of the "JUBUK Training on Quality and Professionalism" project, supported by Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Germany in August 2015. Both organizations work with youth, organize seminars and various programs in order to give participants new competences and skills. The youth exchange will be held on 21.12-28.12.2016 for 40 participants mainly in the age of 18-25, mainly who are Jewish in cooperation of 2 organizations JuBuK e.V., Germany and Hillel, Russia. The project "Roots" aims at resolving of modern challenges of European society appearing while contacting between different cultures, religions and ethnicities. Our main objective is to form in our participants such skills and attitudes as intercultural sensitivity, respect to diversity, social inclusion, opposition to hatred, racism, hate speech and learning the general human values, learning through history lessons. Other objectives of the project:- to get the participants familiarized with the Jewish history of Germany. We want to show the importance of learning history and historical origin of modern values. Understanding of history is the key to understanding of values which help to face modern challenges; also to get to know about the modern life of the - Increase youth cooperation between the two countries: Russia and Germany. The questions of being open and antidiscrimination are getting extremely important in modern Europe as well as various issues of contact between different cultures.-Project targets on increasing of youth mobility. Mobility is one of the most important conditions for developing of open-minded, respectful youth in our countries. All the activities are based on the principles of non-formal education and are prepared and implemented by young people themselves. We expect that the participants will increase their intercultural competences, cultural awareness and expression. Two groups will live together this week, they will have different tasks which they will prepare. They will get basic facilitation skills, project management skills as they will prepare the most of content and logistics by themselves. That will be a great experience that will help them to organize local activities or even further Erasmus+ projects including more partners from different countries. The young people will be responsible for the most parts of the project implementation, preparation, evaluation and dissemination of results. Through these responsibilities they will acquire a lot of competences which will help them in their real life like sence of creativity and entrepreneurship, project management skills, communication skills in different languages, leadership and initiative competences. In terms of the main project theme, we hope that this exchange will help them to become aware of the importance of equality, social justice, inclusion, history lessons and anti-racism work. This experience will inspire them to act as role models in their communities.