The most romantic youth exchange in history, including 35 young people from Latvia, Germany, Bulgaria, Macedonia and Spain will spend amazing time in Latvia learning and motivation themselves with sport and activity. We used sports and other physical activities to improve our physical and mental health and explore different topics through sport. We will use creativity as we will came up with diffe
rent ways to explore topics. Fun and participation will help us to discover ourselves and learn new things. The objectives of the youth exchange was as follows:
- Promote and create an understanding of healthy lifestyle with focus on mental and physical health of participants
- Build participants self-confidence and leadership skills through games and sport activities, to empower young people create change in their local environments
- Discover new ways how to use sports and games to build trust, confidence, improve communication and cooperation skills, solve gender issues
- Encourage participants to overcome their personal fears (like water, height, not trusting to other people etc.) and take new challenges in life, create and fulfill dreams and aims.
- To help young people set goals and aims to be fulfilled.
- Promote healthy lifestyle as a way of thinking, including mental health and care of environment and sustainable living
- - Share experiences between different countries to support healthy lifestyle, equality, inclusion and intercultural understanding.
- Each team must prepare survey about healthy lifestyle as homework before YE. What it means to be healthy, about eating, about challenges people would like to overcome, what young people would like to do in their spare time, what opportunities they miss the most and what they would suggest as improvement.