ERASMUS+ YOUTH EXCHANGE
INTERCULTURAL STORIES
collado mediano (spain) from 2 to 9 March 2026
Experience learning, sharing and living alongside young people from across Europe in our non-formal education Erasmus+ Youth Exchange program.
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The project:
The ‘Intercultural Stories’ exchange will bring together 32 participants from 5 organizations coming from Spain, Portugal, France, Romania and Italy. The idea of ‘Intercultural Stories’ was born from our daily experience at Colectivo Yupanqui, an association where people from very different backgrounds—mainly Latin America and Spain—come together. Faced with this blend of cultures, we have often asked ourselves the following question: How can we live together better, avoid prejudices about others, and overcome our own barriers? The best answer we have found is to allow others to share the stories that shape their cultural identity.
Through stories passed down—formerly through oral tradition and today through written, audiovisual, and digital formats—human beings have explained to themselves the main characteristics that define them as a community and what sets them apart from other groups.
A story can take many forms: poems, songs, short tales, jokes… any artistic expression whose purpose is to create a moral lesson and establish a shared understanding of the topics that matter most to us as humans: death, love, our relationship with parents, the creation of a common enemy, and so on.
In a European context, with diverse nations that speak different languages and practice different religions, stories are abundant and may sometimes seem to be in conflict. If we add migrant communities born outside Europe, who bring with them their own imaginaries, the challenge of understanding one another and living together becomes even greater.
From this challenge arises the idea of ‘Intercultural Stories’. We are convinced that at the heart of the collective imaginaries of all peoples, there are many similarities that bring us closer rather than divide us—topics such as the importance of love, family, friendship or the protection of nature.
We want to create a dialogue among the different stories of the various cultures participating in this project: to understand where they come from, how their respective material conditions have shaped them, how these stories could be adapted to a world in constant transformation and what kinds of new stories Europe needs today to collectively imagine a better future.
The objectives of this exchange are therefore to analyze popular stories from different cultures, understand their dynamics, identify the new ways in which they spread, and create new utopian and intercultural narratives about the sustainable, egalitarian and diverse Europe we aspire to build.
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- People aged between 18 and 30 years old.
- Living in Rumania, France, Italy, Portugal or Spain.