Posted On: September 6th 2026, 08:06 am
🌍 “MOVE IN” concludes in Alezio: an international Erasmus+ youth exchange bringing together young people from across Europe**
The international Erasmus+ youth exchange “MOVE IN” has come to an end in Alezio. From 24 August to 1 September 2026, the project transformed the Salento area into a vibrant space for meeting, learning and intercultural dialogue among young people from different European countries. 🇪🇺✨
The project was coordinated by the Spanish organisation Associació Reintegra per a la Integració i la Reinserció Laboral de les Terres de Ponent and implemented in Italy with the involvement of EUROSUD. It brought together young people from Italy 🇮🇹, Spain 🇪🇸, Morocco 🇲🇦, Croatia 🇭🇷, Greece 🇬🇷 and North Macedonia 🇲🇰.
👥 The exchange involved 60 teenagers aged between 14 and 17, accompanied by 10 youth leaders, with particular attention given to the inclusion of young people with fewer opportunities.
At the heart of MOVE IN was the desire to create a safe, inclusive and intercultural space where young people could freely express themselves, meet peers from different backgrounds and learn to see diversity not as a barrier, but as a valuable resource and an opportunity for personal growth. 🤝💬
The project promoted inclusion, cooperation and mutual understanding, encouraging participants to challenge stereotypes and prejudices and to build relationships based on respect, openness and solidarity. 🌈
⚽🏐 Sport and physical activities played an important role throughout the exchange, not from a competitive perspective, but as tools for inclusion, teamwork, cooperation and group building.
MOVE IN also represented an important opportunity to introduce very young participants to the European dimension, helping them discover the values, opportunities and possibilities offered by European mobility programmes. 🇪🇺🌟