The main goal of the exchange is to discover the cultural similarities and differences through traditional folk and fairy tales. The non-formal tool of the exchange is to present storytelling and puppet traditions in practice to each other. It is also very important to acquire skills like storytelling and listening in the program, where we and the outsiders will meet with the barriers and possibilities through the realization of the cultural and linguistic similarities and differences. The tale helps to strengthen solidarity and tolerance, as it speaks in the language of the childhood. It affects the mind emotionally. Before understanding, knowing, and acquiring something, we should know how to listen to each other. To become an open-minded and receptive person for new and unknown things, it is essential to meet the joy of playing. In the childhood, the freedom of playing still exists and everything can happen in tales. In real life, things can only happen with strong cooperation. We try to create this cooperation through the universal language of puppets and tales. With our self-made puppets, we create a tradition-based, but also a brand new Europe-tale, which we will present to the local community. The project approaches to the understanding of cultures of the participating countries through European folktales. At the beginning, we had to find a common topic, which corresponds to the objectives of partners and participants as well. The primary concern was the feasibility, the display of Europeanness as a value and that the project is internationally innovative and interesting to the participants and to be useful to the society as a whole. The aim of the exchange is that through storytelling we learn to be open, to express our opinion to other people and to listen to each other. Our further aim is to preserve the ability of storytelling and the openness towards new stories, new voices and new cultures. During the exchange we will apply small-group workshops, informal presentations, and non-formal education methods. Most of the participants are young people with fewer opportunities, we plan long-term cooperation with the project partners. Number of days: 6 + 2 travel days Number of countries: Italy, Portugal, Romania, Ukraine and Hungary Number of participants: 5 young people + 1 group leader, 5 country: 30 participants (altogether with group leaders) Date of the exchange: 2-9 of September, 2014 Venue of the exchange: Debrecen, Hungary