The Youth Exchange “You(th) in Music” is a multicultural project that focuses on traditional music and dance as powerful tools for expressing cultural identity, collective memory, and history.
Across the world, music and dance have always played a central role in shaping communities, transmitting values, and telling stories from one generation to another. They reflect social realities, historical experiences, celebrations, struggles, and shared emotions. At the same time, music and dance go beyond language barriers and function as universal means of communication that bring people together.
This youth exchange aims to create a shared intercultural space where young people from different countries explore how traditional music and dance express their culture and history, while also discovering common elements that unite them. Through non-formal education methods, experiential learning, and artistic collaboration, participants will connect, communicate, and co-create using rhythm, movement, and sound.
Objectives of the youth exchange
• To highlight traditional music and dance as expressions of cultural heritage, identity, and historical memory.
• To explore how music and dance reflect social values, traditions, and collective experiences of different countries.
• To promote intercultural dialogue and mutual understanding through artistic expression.
• To strengthen social cohesion and solidarity by using music and dance as common languages.
• To encourage active participation, creativity, and cooperation among young people from different cultural backgrounds.
• To empower young people to use music and dance as tools for connection and community building in their local contexts.