“The big winners” is an youth exchange wich will reunite during ten days 40 young people together with 4 group leaders,all members of the”I.R.I.S.” Association from Romania and Genc Yaklasim Dernegi from Turkey.They have created this application motivated by the project coodinator’s personal experience(she participated in a television show which changed her life) and by the needs of the young people from their own communities which seem to be confronting with an increasing number of obezes. In the total number of participants there will be included 16 overweighted young people and 10 coming from single-parent families that seem to be facing economical difficulties. The aactivities of this project will take place in village Bran,department Brasov. “The big winners” wants to provide the adecquate place for the young ones to learn and experiment the importance of taking on a healthy life style in fighting againt a disease that’s becoming more and more spread:obesity. The project’s aim is to promote among the young people a healthy life style by practicing sports and a healthy diet in order to prevent or treat a serious illness:obesity. They will improve their physical abilities which are necessary to practice any kind of sport or hiking,they’ll learn all about healthy foodand how to prepare it themselves and they will recive new information about the effects of obesity on the body. They will empathize with the young people involved in the project who have this illness,they’ll develop their abilities of communicating in English and in their mother tongue,as well as their creativity by initiating some games and preparing diet and healthy food. The participants will be actively involved in all the stages of the projectand their learning process will take place in an inter-cultural environment where they’ll have to be united,they’ll have to help and include in all the activities of the project the ones who have weight problems. During these 10 days,the young ones will recive information on obesity in the work-shops they’ll take part,from the documentaries presented or from the testimonies of those who suffer from this illness or had it”The great winner”-a show wich changed my life-provided by the project coordinator). They will also practice different kind of sports and friendly maches,they’ll go hiking and do a lot of exercise. The participants will learn what a healthy diet is all about from a nutritionist and they’ll discover how to prepare their own healthy food with less calories. Within the “Intercultural evening” the young people will promote their own culture. Game playing-as a specific method for non-formal education will be used in all the activities and will represent the main method to overcome the language barrier. There will be used games to know one with other,ice-braking games,of the trust in the members of the group,but also games wich will allow them to make an evaluation of the project activities and personal acquisitions in the learning process. There will be organized cultural trips for the young ones to obtain new information about the Romanian history,culture and traditions. In Bran they will play in a flashmob called “Say NO to obesity!”,a street activity wich has as main goal to draw attention on the great danger that represents obesity for the young people. There will also be a forum theatre called”Andrei’s pleasures” where the young ones will have the opportunity to interact and debate on the forms of discrimination that overheight people are subjected to and to join forces into finding solutions to solve this. The project will have an impact on the participants,organization,young people of two communities and also on the public authorities.The young one will become more motivated to adopt a healthy and organized life style,to learn to eat healthy,practice sports,develop their motric abilities and their creativity and to empathise with those affected by obesity. In order to maximize the impact of the project,the dissemination of the results will be done online(trough Facebook,yahoo group) and mass-media(www.olteniteanul.ro),where a lot of people have access to. The organizational experience and the prestige of the two associations in their own communities will grow as welland “The big winners” will become an exampleof good practice which will determine other social actors to get more involved in the young people’s problems. In order to see how much the objectives have been achived,two partial and one final evaluations will be done where the young one will be initiated using games Youthpass's use. On the long term,the collaboration between the two associations will continue and it will materialize in drawing up and implement new projects through the Erasmus+ programme