The project FOOD IMMERSION : tasty and healthy cultural exchange is a youth exchange that will be built in the province of Palermo , South Italy . The project will last 10 days , excluding travel days , from January 5, 2015 to January 16, 2015, and will involve 24 young people , plus 7 leaders from the following countries : Italy , Poland, Greece , Spain and Lithuania. About half of the young people involved come from a disadvantage. The project has its origins in the observation that young people , especially those with fewer opportunities , they do not care of your diet, do not follow a balanced meal plan and eat in a controlled and often unregulated . The working methodology is based in the full involvement of young people as suggested by the European Guidelines on non-formal and informal learning and includes a mix of rilfessivi moments , moments of games based on practical activities ' " learning by doing" and "mutual learning" . Young people will be subjected to a process concrete and non- formal learning in an intercultural context , with the main objective to develop the attitude to healthy and balanced eating habits , and the interest , reflection and evaluation of the importance of care of nutrition in everyday life .