CONTEXT Today’s Youth spend their life shorter than it was before. They spend most of their time in traffic, shopping queues and running for their living needs. Additionally the latest generation which we can name as digital youth don’t have time to do these. Apart from the school and sleep, they spend most of their time playing computer games or surfing the net. For this reason they have participation problems social and cultural activities, especially sports. PROFILE OF THE PARTICIPANTS The participants will be chosen from geographical and social disadvantaged regions because they have limited opportunity or no possibility to reach social and cultural activities. For example they have no chance to do or practice nature and water sports which are very expensive. Our project’s objectives are: to introduce nature sports to the participant youth by providing them theoretical and practical trainings; increase their consciousness of nature; healthy living habits; support their personal and social development. The participants will be chosen among the young people who have no physical obstacles for nature sports, live in poor regions of the cities and have problems in reaching social, cultural and sports activities. The total number of these young people is 14 from Turkey and 14 from Poland, total 28 participants. Their age period is between 18 and 25. ANA FAALİYETLER Activities: • The participants from the partner organization will be met at the airport and taken to the hotel. A welcome party will be organized for them at the hotel in the evening. • The welcome party will include activities such as country and participants’ presentations, ice-breaking, etc • A workshop will be arranged to evaluate the Project, risk management and necessary precautions/solutions. In this workshop, the participants will overview the practical preparations, details and revisions without changing the structure and objectives of the Project. • Preparation work for the mountaineering trainings, warm ups, climbing and scouting trainings and practice on Düldül mountain by daily transport. • Trainings and practice for rock and cave climbing, will be organized in Duldul area by setting up a camp. • Trekking, camping, photo safari and scouting trainings and practice will be organized in Baskonus area staying at the accommodation place of the Ministry of Forestry. • Trekking, camping, photo safari and scouting trainings and practice will be organized in Suçatı area staying at the accommodation place of Scouting Federation. • Paragliding trainings and practice will be organized in Narlı and Ümittepe areas. • An exhibition displaying the photos of the activities will be arranged and open for the public; a photo catalogue of the activities will be created and published on the project web site; an e-bulletin will be prepared and published on the web site. • A city tour and an excursion in the city centre will be arranged for the participants to introduce them the historical and touristic sides of the region. And the certificates will be presented. • A farewell program will be organized for the participants WORKING METHOD: All the practice activities will be under the control of the coordinator organization and realized by the participants from both organizations. Project management will be done by the participants in order to improve their managing capabilities, leadership abilities and make them gain team spirit. Professionals will only guide them during the activities. The participants will be divided into mixed groups. There will be a group leader in each group and he will coordinate the activities and the group work of the participants. While practicing the trainings, at least one professional will guide to the participants and they will ensure the security measures to be taken. Dangerous and risky activities which will affect the health of the participants will be avoided. Trainings will be given by the professionals. Question and answer, explanation and practice techniques will be used during the trainings. Interactive training communication will be provided during the trainings for effective results. RESULT, EFFECTS AND LONG TERM BENEFITS: At the end of the Project; the willingness of the participants to the nature sports, motivation, healthy living and tendency of being away from addictive materials will be increased. Their level of practice the nature sports, consciousness of the nature, linguistic, cultural and social competences will improve. The institutional capacity of the participating organizations will be increased. Youth support systems will be developed as a result of arranged trainings and dissemination of the project outcomes. Participants will share their experience in the social media networks and this will lead the spread of this experience to the local communities.