ACTIVITY:Youth exchange: "Academy of Dreamers"PARTNERS:AJS, Spain, Hackney Borough, UK, Golden Orange Youth Group, Turkey,Patronus, Slovakia.DATES:3 - 10 of January 2016VENUE: Inn Aurora Boreal, Casas del Monte, Cáceres.NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS:52 - 41 young people and 11 responsibles (1 with special needs)AGE:Young people between 13 and 21 OBJECTIVES:Through the "Dreamers' Academy" youth exchange and its activities based on non formal education, 41 young people form United Kingdom, Spain, Turkey and Slovakia, will acquire competences necessary to become participative and able to dream and realize their ideas. All that will be based on the following objectives: - promote active social participation of young people,- promote youth initiatives,- provide young people with practical tools for the development of projects,- show the general population the values and motivations of young people, - establish friendships with people from different cultures and through that, strengthen the Europen conscience and the feeling of belonging to the EU.METHODOLOGY:The methodology of the activities is based on the principles of non formal education, in order to facilitate a structured frame but at the same time a flexible one, for the learning process of the participants. The activities will focus on the importance of learning in groups, the importance of learning through games and experiments, horizontal relations, respect and an equilibrium between theory and practice.ACTIVITIES:All activities have the aim of strengthening young people's the ability to make possible their ideas/ wishes to come true. By those we will promote youth initiatives, active participation of young people in our society and development of key competences, so necessary to make their dreams come true in the future. Those activities are compound of educational sessions, creative sessions, reflection session, case studies, grupa and individual tasks, debates, videos, etc.IMPACT:In young participants:Participative young people, conscious of the importance of youth participation within the society, with capacity to propose and to develop their ideas, able to listen with respect to others, with team work spirit and at the same time able to coordinate a group. Young people with seriousness and commitment but also flexible and open minded.On the local level:A greater visibility of youth participation and youth initiatives among the local community and local administration.Collaboration between young participants, local public entities and particulars, through common activities.New young people motivated to participate in th projects of all partner organisations. Better visibility of the Erasmus+ Program. On the European and international level:Creating a European conscience, the feeling of belonging to the European Union's society, and identification with the values promoted by the EU. Specific workshops/activities developed during the exchange, and ready to be realized in participants' local communities. RESULTS:Tangible results:1. Several mini - projects to be realized within the exchange groups.2. Several projects of social, cultural or educational character to be realized on local level with the participation of the inhabitants themselves and to be duplicated in participants' local communities.3. Concrete proposals for the online activities to be realized by all members of YP2OF during the academic year 2015/2016.Intangible results:Young people able to ask for help, present their ideas, take risk, creative, realists, commited and participative, among others.LONG TERM BENEFITS:Young people with initiative, able to dream and realize their dreams, and to spread their energy to others.Network among participants YP2OF will be strengthened.