06/11/2022
France
participants
This youth exchange was designed in response to the experience of young people during the pandemic: the limited possibility of meeting with their peers and friends, online teaching, restrictions on group activities, the impossibility to practice sports and of being in nature, the closure of cultural centers (museums, theaters, cinemas), the large number of hours spent per day in front of a screen. All those privations have caused a general feeling of malaise and the increase in the use of technology, which in many cases results in depressive feelings, stress, surrender, self-injurious behaviors, or a feeling of being expendable.
The main goal of this youth exchange project was to gather young people from different background in order to exchange knowledge on the theme of mental and physical well-being in an intercultural environment, and to develop soft skills such as intercultural dialogue, groupwork, leadership...
Re-match with yourself is a 9-day Youth Exchange program that gathered 36 young people from 6 European countries to discuss and learn about physical and mental well-being. The participants will have the opportunity to question their life habits, and their use of technology to better apprehend their psycho-physical health, discover new cultures and improve soft skills through non-formal education practices.