A bilateral youth exchange, "Life Skills for promoting youth participation " will be held in Thessaloniki and Municipality Pilea Hortiatis from 14 to 22/4/2017. Sixty beneficiary newcomers at the Program Erasmus+ Youth, young people actively participate in all stages of planning, applying, prepare, implement and evaluation of the project. The activities will be carried out by a core group of 10 facilitators of learning, supported in a voluntary base by a youth tραινερ from the beginning to the end. The topic of the youth exchange is "Life Skills for promoting youth participation". These activities offer space for interaction, sharing and avoiding passive listening; allow participants to contribute to the activities with their own knowledge and skills; ensure that beneficiary youngsters will have influence over project decisions; allow youngsters to undertake their own analyses. Our target group is youngsters aged 14 - 22 years old. Concrete products will be created during the mobility and will be shown to the action day and uploaded to social media, such as electronic post cards written in working language and an official EU language, promoting a message about our common values. The success of this current dissemination and exploitation of result is visible as everybody could check the number of "like" button in each post.Life skills is a term, describing a set of skills acquired through everyone's learning and / or through experience which is used for the effective management of problems and issues of everyday life. The basic aims of the program are respect for ourselves and others, communication and social skills, responsive to the goals and priorities of the Erasmus + YOUTH.In this program, through various activities, we will cover the issues of volunteering and the development of life skills, as contemporary issues that concern all citizens, especially young people, who must be aware of them. The Μunicipality of Pilea-Hortiatis is suffered by a Holocaust and the Municipality of Latsia, a refugee Municipality in Nicosia.The preparation of the program was carried out by the youngsters who will participate in the program, helping to write the application and the definition of the program and individual activities (internal and external). Activities ('' Sailing to a new country'', ''Rights and Obligations '', '' Ideal City '', '' Who would you want to live with", '' Every vote counts '', '' Take Place '', ''When you're 31 years old''), correspond to the goal of the program. Through education in life skills participants will develop knowledge and understanding, values and attitudes, abilities and skills.An award ceremony has been foreseen about Youthpass certificate and we will implement a workshop on presentation and writing of the certificate as a learning tool.