Take Your Place, Faro is a project facilitated and run by Exodus and partnering with three Spanish partners and one Portuguese partner. Exodus have partnered with the three Spanish hosts in a smaller scale but never with the Portuguese host. This project aims to greatly increase the partnership between the five organizations and open many more opportunities for the young people represented by the organizations respectively. In total there are 60 participants, the groups will meet as small groups in preparation for the project with each small group providing two leaders for the project. There are 32 Northern Irish participants, 5 Portuguese and 23 Spanish. The vast majority of participants will be 15-20 years old and it is expected there will be an even split between male and female. 40 of the participants will be from an economically disadvantaged background. Objectives: Improve key competencies and skills among young people. Improve Youth work and opportunities for young people within youth provision through European partnership and co-operation. Enhance international youth activities and structures through communication, partnership and sharing ideas. Improve social and cultural understanding and interaction between people of different genders, cultural and economic backgrounds. Promote a health lifestyle among young people by promoting participation in sport and active team games. Issues being addressed: Promotion of European citizenship and awareness Improvement of youth provision in European countries Helping youth people improve skills and competencies through providing greater opportunities in areas of leadership, creative arts and inter-cultural dialogue. Facilitating young people exploring other cultures and celebrating positive aspects to their own cultural identity. Methodology: The project will include large events with all participants included, small discussion groups within the partner organizations, team building games with mixed cultural teams, active games and activities, cultural and creative celebrations and informal opportunities for inter-cultural dialogue. This varied but balanced program is planned with the intended outcome of relationship building and understanding between the young people as possible. Results and impact: This varied but balanced program is planned with the intended outcome of relationship building and understanding between the young people as possible. The opportunity to participate in an act of kindness in the community will allow the young people to be active positive role models in the community, it is hoped that this will inspire them to continue on this lesson while in their own communities. The active nature of the program will help promote a healthy lifestyle within the young people, it is hoped that this will inspire them to continue on this lesson while in their usual daily routine. The skills of dialogue, preparation, participation, leadership and expressing their own arts and culture will better equip young people with skills which will assist them their own self-awareness, development and help them in future in the employment market as they develop these desirable skills. Each participant will encounter youth people from other European countries. Their prejudices will be challenged and their European identity increased. Long term: Future partnership between each of the partners will be encouraged after the project. The aims and objectives of the project will be followed up in the small groups the young people met in for preparation. Each of the young people will be given the chance to be more involved as a role model within their own community through smaller scale projects in September onwards. Each organization will celebrate and acknowledge the lessons and achievements of their young people by holding a re-commissioning service in September within their own organizations.