Your Up-Cycling Session is a youth exchange bound to the lasting approach of our development. The 18-day voyage will be filled with opportunities to learn about working together and collective life through personal and social growth. The role of human impact on a global scale will also be placed at the forefront. Accompanied by five leaders in the heart of Rouergue, located in the Midi-Pyrénées, 20 young persons – Estonians, Turks, Italians, French, many of whom come from disadvantaged backgrounds – will give forgotten and forsaken objects new life. Discussing amongst themselves, the participants will propose creative activities using recuperated materials, including textiles. They will work either in small groups or all together to accomplish this goal. This immersion in some of the artistic methods of recycling will underline the capacity to give life to abandoned objects in both a creative and exciting manner. These reflective workshops will be completed with the mindset of respect towards the environment. Bolstered by professionals for the manual activities and by a group of highly motivated and involved volunteers, we offer these young people a cross-disciplinary approach that utilizes their own personal potential and self-worth. This is done with the aim of emphasizing collective decision making. Anchored in non-formal education for ten years, Association Citrus, a regional delegation of Solidarités Jeunesses in Midi-Pyrénées, along with its three European partner organizations, will be the place of this action. These organizations will be leading this exchange of knowledge and the sharing of cultures. Association Citrus will have an open house on Tuesday, the 22nd of July where the work will be presented. An international shared meal and giant exhibition space will permit the participants to show the works that they crafted in the diverse workshops they participated in during the month of July. If global understanding and environmentalism are at risk in our world, we truly believe that this project will be for a future generation that thinks more about civic-mindedness, is focused on the role of humanity, and is more aware of the resources he or she uses. Your Up-Cycling Session hopes to offer to them not only the tools to promote the emergence of their own personal spirit, but also the tools to concretely construct peace in the world.