Youth Centre Villa Elba is organising together with a a local youth group and with our partner organisations from Austria, Belgium, Spain, Germany, Slovakia, Italy and Turkey to realize a youth exchange. This youth exchange gathers 45 young people and 9 leaders from the participating countries. The youth exchange takes place in Kokkola, Finland from 31.7.-7.8.2015 and it lasts for 8 days (travel days included) The theme of this youth exchange is fight against racism and sterotypes and we will handle the theme trough different kind of outdoor education workshops planned by the youngsters themselves. The aim is that by meeting different kind of challenges in the nature to learn about ourselves and other people and gain more understanding for how people act in different kind of situations. The aim is that the young people will learn more about other European countries and cultures and also learn from each other methods to fight against racism and sterotypes. The aim is also that the participants will spread the information and methods in their local communities. We have also planned to make a video that we will use as a toll to spread information about this yuth exchange. As working methods we will use different kind of workshops We will also work on a video about racism and we will plan and implement the video project together. We will divide into small groups and work on different tasks.