"EH! - Expanding Horizons" has been a youth exchange that involved 40 young people and 5 group leaders from 5 European organisations. The project has been based on the use of non-formal education, theatre and story-telling as tools for social transformation and the empowerment of young people.

The starting point of the project was the concern of the young collaborators of INCA Cataluña about the reality in their communities and the desire to have the capacity to influence them as positive agents of change and improvement of life for their own future. The project was built around the following questions: How do young people live in our territory? What improvements do we want for our cities/towns? How can we contribute to their improvement? How can we improve life and coexistence in our communities? The participants made a research-work prior to the development of the exchange around these questions. At the beginning of the exchange they shared them with the group through a creative and artistic activity. They shared their doubts and conclusions with the community of Linars del Vallés, where the project took place.

‘EH!’ gave the young participants the opportunity to meet in a environment to explore what challenges and opportunities they can find in their communities. They thought about themselves as a collective and how they could work together as a generation, they also proposed alternative and sustainable lifestyles in their communities.

The project increased the level of responsibility of young people in defining their own destiny, contributing to the growth of their communities through reflection on diversity, creativity and participation.

GENERAL ACHIEVEMENTS S OF THE PROJECT are:
- allowed young people to acquire new skills, to develop the ability for critical analysis, intercultural dialogue and active participation for personal development;
- promoted an international youth network involving Young people with an interest in culture and community participation;
- reflected about proposals for the improvement of life and space in our communities.

LINK WITH THE OBJECTIVES OF ERASMUS + and KA1:
- the project improved key competences of young people,
- the project promoted participation in the labor market
- the project promoted intercultural dialogue generating a meeting between young people from different background.

The participants were young people between 18 and 25 years old interested in art, and community participation and non-formal education. In addition, the young participants were interested in getting to know other young people from other European countries to reflect on sustainability, citizen participation and the proposal of creative and innovative solutions described above.

The group improved its capabilities in the field of non-formal education through participation, peer education and hands-on learning. They were able to use the skills learned in this project in their contexts of belonging. They were able to reflect on the existence or lack of participation mechanisms in their respective communities, as well as on the needs to create infrastructures that support the improvement of life and human relations