Facing crisis, European citizens are experimenting other ways to live. They are acting to meet their needs and to find issues to the difficulties they encounter (unemployment, exclusion, etc.). The “Trip to Heterotopia” deals with social innovation. It focuses on those collective projects led by citizens that have in common the values of respect of people and nature, on those projects that are transforming our cities and countryside and show that crisis is not a fate. The “Trip to Heterotopia” gathers 29 participants (15 from France, 14 from Greece). It is a 21 days-long journey in Midi-Pyrénées that consists in discovering those original initiatives, in meeting women and men that lead them, trying to understand their motivations and how they manage. Participants share their point of view with their counterparts. They explore the current events in a different way and especially deal with the crisis and its effects on the people. They also experiment a sober and eco-friendly way of living all the trip long. They care about environment and try to reduce their footprint in order to be truthful to their convictions. The “Trip to heterotopia” is a friendly and pleasing experience during which young European citizens share interests, ideas and questions. They discover each other’s cultural heritage and become more aware of what cooperation between people from different backgrounds and nationalities brings. Young people take an active part in preparing, managing and evaluating the project. Individual interviews and workshops are offered to them before the Youth exchange. It allows them to express their expectations, to learn about popular education tools and collaborative methods, to discuss social innovation, learning-by-doing process, Otherness, etc. The youth exchange happens in August. It includes 4 stages in 4 different areas in Midi-Pyrénées. Each stage lasts from 5 to 6 days. The first one is a team-building stage, during which participants learn to know each other and choose their collective living rules. The 3 following stages allow participants to discover various initiatives, to initiate debates on public places about social issues on which they are interested in and to learn from each other and from the people they meet in a non-formal way. Depending on the day, they participate in organizing public events or divided in different groups in order to go to see an initiative while other members of the team take part in practical workshops or prepare the meal. At the end of the day, they gather around a campfire and share their point of view about what they experienced in a pleasant atmosphere. The trip to Heterotopia ends at Toulouse with a public event in which participants give a glimse of what they would have seen, experienced and learned during their journey. After their return, participants analyze the project and take part in public events. At the same time, Via Brachy and European Village support them in their personal, collective and/or professional projects. The Trip to Heterotopia stimulates creativity of young people. It encourages them to involve in projects of social interest and to adopt eco-friendly behaviours. It promotes collective initiatives that respect people and environment and contributes in the creation of sharing-knowledge networks at a European scale in the fields of youth, popular and non-formal education and social economy.