The project "Sharing different history, Shaping Common Future" aims to bring 40 youths and 8 leaders from Cyprus, Bulgaria, Armenia, Belarus, Ukraine, Greece, Moldova, Turkey for collaboration in implementing, reflecting, evaluating and disseminating how youths can shape optimistic future
based on their different history.
The project idea is based on the concept that youths can focus on commonalities between our common positive aspects of history, culture and tradition that can connect people more than divide them. This cooperation is based at the following:
-Youths from different cultures feel comfortable to cooperate through NFL activities.
-The project idea is a result and impact from participants and some of the partners of a previous project and the target group. We want to encourage them to proceed with this application since we foresee fruitful outcome and enhanced impact on all sides and in international level too.
-History and Future based discussions provide shared orientation to the development of methods, activities and results because they are grounded to the direct interests of the participants. These foster creative thinking and can also in appropriate way lessen tension and cultural prejudice among people. As
Dodson (2015) said studying and sharing aspects of History is important and interesting should give readers an insight to how much better life they have today. This is reason enough to explain why sharing history is a powerful instrument to foster intercultural understanding, communication and
appreciation of diversity and of the importance of cooperation to shape the future by avoiding the mistakes of the past between people.

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-We consider NF activities as attractive way to involve youths into learning process because they propose variety of approaches in which they can be encouraged and motivated to meet what interest them more and develop their competences and skills. Thus in this project we will share and develop methods that are connected to the historic background of the participants, such as Theater, poetry, Music, cooking, dance, which are interactive activities and can involve anyone irrespective their competences, special needs and fewer opportunities

Objectives of the project: to
1. suggest and share history based activities for intercultural learning and social inclusion
2. motivate youths to collaborate through history based activities under NFL, irrespective their origin and culture
3. enhance the development of key competences (social, intercultural, languages, creativity, L2L) to youths when collaborating in history based activities
4. increase self confidence and inspire youths to join more international mobilities
5. create tangible (video, booklet) and intangible (ex. friendship, partnership)results.
6. provide space and time for developing ideas for future projects between participating countries