Youth Uniting Minds Embracing Diversity Through Meals

ANKA YOUTH ASSOCIATION > Youth Uniting Minds Embracing Diversity Through Meals
Arrival day: 17.04.2026
Departure day: 27.04.2026
Project type: Youth Exchange
Venue: Orly-sur-Morin, FRANCE
Participants: 30 participants (18+)
Sending organization: Anka Youth Association

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About The project

Youth Uniting Minds: Embracing Diversity through Meals is an Erasmus+ KA152-YOU Youth Exchange project that brings together young people from different cultural, social, and geographical backgrounds. The project uses food, cooking, and shared meals as powerful non-formal education tools to promote intercultural dialogue, inclusion, and sustainable practices.

Through a combination of a preparatory visit and an international youth exchange, participants engage in hands-on activities that connect cultural heritage, social responsibility, and environmental awareness. The project particularly prioritizes the involvement of young people with fewer opportunities, ensuring inclusive participation and equal access to learning experiences.

By using cooking and shared meals as a central learning tool, the project creates a safe and engaging space where participants exchange cultural traditions, challenge stereotypes, and build empathy. At the same time, the project raises awareness about sustainable food practices and food waste reduction, empowering young people—especially those with fewer opportunities—to develop leadership skills, collaborate in multicultural teams, and become active agents of positive social and environmental change in their communities.

Objectives

Promoting Intercultural Understanding: To foster empathy, tolerance, and mutual respect among young people by encouraging the
exchange of cultural traditions through cooking, storytelling, and shared culinary experiences.

Developing Leadership and Teamwork Skills: To empower participants to take active roles in planning, decision-making, and implementation of activities, strengthening their leadership, cooperation, and communication skills in multicultural teams.

Creating Tangible and Digital Project Outputs: To produce concrete results such as a multicultural cookbook, social media reel videos from each participating country, and a final compilation video that documents the learning process and project impact.

Profile of Participants

Young people from ages 18-30

  • Interested in cooking, food culture, and sustainability

  • Motivated to learn through non-formal education

  • Open to intercultural exchange and teamwork

  • Comfortable with taking part in everyday cooking
    workshops as an essential project activity

  • No previous Erasmus+ or cooking experience required

Expected Contribution from the Participants

Collaborative Content Creation: Through collaborative sessions, and creative brainstorming exercises, participants will contribute their unique perspectives and talents to the dissemination process, ensuring that our messages resonate with diverse audiences. These through the co-creation of project-related content, such as blog articles, videos, photos, and testimonials, that can be shared on our website, social media channels, and other communication platforms. Each participant has to do at least one dissemination social media post in their accounts about the project as a task. Each national team has to create at least 1 reels video/vlog about their cooking workshop.

Where will it take place?

The youth exchange will take place at Au Cœur du Domaine, a peaceful venue located in Orly-sur-Morin (77750), France, surrounded by nature and ideal for group activities and daily cooking workshops. The venue is approximately 1 hour from Paris and 35 minutes from Disneyland Paris, offering a calm and focused environment for the exchange. Rooms will be shared, and based on gender.

TRAVEL EXPENSES & REIMBURSEMENTS

Travel costs will be reimbursed within the limits set by Erasmus+. All reimbursements will be made after the project, upon presentation of:

  • Original invoices
  • Boarding passes
  • The participant’s final report

HOW TO APPLY

1. Tag 4 friends in our instagram post and follow our social media accounts (will be checked during evaluations).
2. Fill out the application form
3. Deadline for applications: 29 March 2026

Only applicants with a valid visa or a Green Passport will be considered due to the strict project timeline !!!

Do you have any questions? Feel free to contact us via info@ankayouthngo.org

📝 Application and more information: linktr.ee/ankayouthngo

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