Together Begins Here
Although known as a quaint and peaceful place, this September Labanoras echoed with chatter and laughter as we welcomed forty-five young people from Lithuania, Czechia, Slovakia, Hungary, Portugal and Romania to explore inclusion, accessibility, and diversity together across the nine days of “Together We Click”.
We devoted the first two days to bringing everyone closer. Name games, a round of human bingo, and the small challenge of finding five things in common across mixed-nationality teams did the slow work of turning a room of strangers into one group. Together we wrote and signed our own Code of Conduct, deciding what a respectful, inclusive week would ask of us, and pinned our hopes and fears to a flipchart so nothing went unsaid. To keep the week running on our own energy, we split into rotating teams for recall, energizers, evening programmes and documenting it all, and a session on the Youthpass gave everyone a shared language for the learning ahead. Two quiet rituals ran underneath it all: an anonymous Compliment Box read out each evening, and a Secret Friend everyone looked after in secret until the farewell.
Pieces of the Inclusion Puzzle
With trust in place, we went straight at the topic, breaking discrimination into its many forms and looking at how each shows up in ordinary life rather than in headlines. We kept the methods hands-on. We turned heavy subjects into comics and hung them on the wall as a gallery, and in a round of forum theatre we performed short scenes of exclusion, then replayed them so the audience could step in and change the ending. A debate that had us physically cross to the side we believed in, and a walk in another person’s shoes, made plain how unevenly opportunity is handed out.
The accessibility sessions worked from the inside. We learned the sign language alphabet and used it to present without speaking a single word, and read quotes written in Braille with our eyes closed to feel firsthand how scarce such resources can be. Even an adapted sports session, where cards took away a movement and everyone had to find a way to keep playing, taught more about belonging than any lecture could. We also looked closely at how stereotypes take root, writing two opposite articles about the same story to watch how easily words bend it. All our sessions were based on non-formal education methods, both educational and fun, and each evening a reflection session gave everyone space to process the day.
Celebrating the Cultural Mosaic
Alongside the workshops, our evenings let everyone step into each other’s worlds. Across three intercultural nights, the Czech and Slovak, Portuguese and Romanian, and Hungarian and Lithuanian groups took turns hosting, walking us through their countries, laying out traditional food to share, and pulling the whole room into folk dances until everyone was moving together. Between them came a welcome party, karaoke, a movie night and a talent night, easy hours that did as much for the group as the sessions did. These nights enriched what we all knew about the diversity of Europe and nurtured open-mindedness.
Many Voices, One Future
By the second half of the week we moved from absorbing to making. A Shark Tank session had teams invent and pitch real solutions for inclusion, while National Perspectives asked each country group to give an honest look at how inclusive their own society is. In the final days we drew up plans to carry the topic home, sketched our own future youth-exchange ideas, collected our Youthpass certificates, and turned the week’s reflections into the words that became this very post.
Our participants arrived in Labanoras hoping to explore inclusion and diversity, and in the end they left with those hopes fulfilled, along with new international friendships, cherished memories, and a renewed determination to make the world a better place, one step at a time. They returned home as well-informed advocates of inclusivity, able to recognize injustices, challenge stereotypes, and promote accessibility.
The hardest task came last: saying goodbye. In those final moments we exchanged heartfelt hugs, whispered thanks, and promises to meet again someday. Though our paths diverged, each of us carried a piece of Together We Click, proof that connections made in sincerity can outlast even the longest distances.
Results
Some of the cool things we did during this activity:
In Digital Voices, teams took on a heavier brief: a short film, two to three minutes long, built around a real social issue, with the freedom to land the message through humour or emotion. This one tackles gender inequality:
In Short-Form Content, Long-Term Impact, teams turned the stereotypes we meet every day into the format we all scroll through, planning, filming, and editing a short video to challenge one. This one takes on how easily we put labels on people:
During one of the sessions, participants created comics, presenting stories about inclusion and diversity:
In the Shark Tank session, participants stepped into the role of social innovators and came up with products that can make our world more accessible:
Another session had participants reflect on the inclusion scene in their own countries:
Some awesome presentations that were made :)
Photo Gallery
A few more moments from this activity :)
Check these and more photos in the activity’s photo album.
Dissemination Events
Our participants shared the knowledge, skills and experience gained during the activity through events for dissemination and exploitation of results within their communities.
Komarom, Hungary, Sept. 2025
Dissemination by Gergely at TSZC Széchenyi István Economics and Informatics High School for 14 peers. He walked them through our website and where to apply, telling the story of how he signed up for his own first Erasmus+ exchange.
Komarom, Hungary, Sept. 2025
Dissemination by Mark at TSZC Széchenyi István Economics and Informatics High School for 9 classmates during English class. He played the activity’s recap video and showed them how they could take part in our future activities.
Litomysl, Czechia, Sept. 2025
Dissemination by Sara at Gymnazium Aloise Jiraska for 10 classmates during English class. She presented a PowerPoint on the topic of the exchange, where and when it took place, and how the application process works, with her classmates especially curious about the venue and the accommodation where the group stayed.
Pitesti, Romania, Sept. 2025
Dissemination by Laura at Ion Barbu Theoretical High School for 16 students. She opened with an introduction to Erasmus+, walked the class through the schedule, the sessions, the cultural nights and the Youthpass with photos from the exchange, then ran a hands-on Braille workshop inspired by one of the activity’s sessions before finishing with a Q&A.
Pitesti, Romania, Sept. 2025
Dissemination by Mihail at Armand Călinescu Technical College for 28 classmates. He built a presentation from his own clips and photos, talked through the sessions and his own contributions, and showed everyone interested where and how to apply.
Baia Mare, Romania, Sept. 2025
Dissemination by Ilinca at Dobro House Café for 10 friends. She began with a round of questions and answers about how the exchange worked, then walked through the daily programme and sessions using photos passed around the table, before turning the afternoon interactive with traditional music and one of the dances from the Romanian and Portuguese cultural night.
Porto, Portugal, Sept. 2025
Dissemination by Giovanna at Porto School of Architecture for 6 colleagues. After sharing her Together We Click experience and explaining how Erasmus+ youth exchanges work, she ran a short dynamic on different forms of prejudice and ways to overcome them, which flowed into a debate where the group traded their own views and experiences.
Labanoras, Lithuania, Sept. 2025
Dissemination by Goda at Vilijos Cepulienes sodyba for 45 students. She introduced the non-formal education methods behind the exchange and opened a conversation about identity, diversity and social inclusion, drawing on the activities and challenges she had taken part in.
Marijampolė, Lithuania, Sept. 2025
Dissemination by Atene at Marijampolės Rygiškių Jono gimnazija for her classmates. Back home after the exchange, she presented the project to her class, walking them through the sessions and what she had worked on.
Prague, Czechia, Sept. 2025
Dissemination by Karolina at her school for 10 classmates. Straight after the bell in her geography class she gave a short presentation introducing our work and the exchange, and left her classmates fascinated.
Kralovsky Chlmec, Slovakia, Sept. 2025
Dissemination by Kristof at Gymnazium Gimnazium Kralovsky Chlmec for 13 classmates. He explained what the project was about and why exchanges like it are worth joining, then showed his classmates how they could apply themselves.
Kralovsky Chlmec, Slovakia, Sept. 2025
Dissemination by Leo at Gymnazium Gimnazium Kralovsky Chlmec for 15 classmates and their teacher. His presentation paired photos with information about our projects, and he answered every question that came his way.
Tvrdosin, Slovakia, Sept. 2025
Dissemination by Yaroslava and David at Gymnazium v Tvrdosine for around 80 students across four classes. Yaroslava introduced the wider range of Erasmus+ opportunities, from youth exchanges to training courses, hikes and mentorships. David focused on Together We Click and the impact it had on those who took part. Clips from other projects and a “how to join” QR code rounded off a lively session.
Presov, Slovakia, Sept. 2025
Dissemination by Zuzana and Timea at Gymnazium Jana Adama Raymana for 18 classmates during English class. Their Canva presentation walked through the daily schedule, the non-formal learning methods and energizers, and the purpose of the project, with plenty of photos to convey its energy. By the end, two classmates had already decided to apply for an upcoming activity.
Miercurea-Ciuc, Romania, Sept. 2025
Dissemination by Daniel Apetrii at Colegiul National Octavian Goga for 11 classmates. He showed the activity’s final video along with a selection of photos, explaining what he had done during the exchange and what he had taken away from it.
Martin, Slovakia, Sept. 2025
Dissemination by Gregor at Stredna Odborna Skola Dopravna Martin for 16 dormmates and classmates. From his dormitory common room he shared the essentials, the topics, the location, the activities and the cultural nights, explained the value of the Youthpass, and talked through his own favourite moments from the week.
Brezice, Slovenia, Sept. 2025
Dissemination by Daniel Truta at Youth hostel Brezice for 25 young people, during another Erasmus+ project he was taking part in. He presented the Together We Click activities and opened a conversation about inclusion that the group took to with real interest.
Rokytnice nad Jizerou, Czechia, Oct. 2025
Dissemination by Yaroslava at Lípy - Chata pod Lipami for 56 people, during the Tap to Create exchange. She presented Together We Click to a full room of participants from another project.
Budapest, Hungary, Oct. 2025
Dissemination by Klara, Julia and Lorina at their school for 12 classmates. Together they showed the official video, explained how our projects and applications work, and talked their class through their own experience of the exchange.
Vilnius, Lithuania, Oct. 2025
Dissemination by Milana at European Humanities University for 6 young people. She shared the goals and outcomes of the exchange, the themes of diversity and inclusion and the non-formal methods behind them, using photos and personal insights to encourage others to get involved.
Liptovsky Mikulas, Slovakia, Oct. 2025
Dissemination by Maxima at Evanjelicke Gymnasium Juraja Tranovskeho for 12 classmates during English class. She talked through the activities and her overall experience, and showed her classmates how they could take part in our projects too.
Alytus, Lithuania, Oct. 2025
Dissemination by Liepa at Alytaus Jotvingiu Gymnasium for 24 classmates during their class hour. She introduced Erasmus+ and walked through Together We Click with slides built from the activity’s photos, covering everything from what the group gained to the cultural evenings, and explained how to sign up.
Prague, Czechia, Oct. 2025
Dissemination by Amalie at a primary school for 10 children. She made two posters about our work and Together We Click and presented them, introducing the younger students to the opportunities on offer, and the posters were theirs to keep afterwards.
Rokytnice nad Jizerou, Czechia, Oct. 2025
Dissemination by Ondrej at Penzion Chata pod Lipami for 11 young people. Around a cottage table, he walked his friends through what Erasmus+ projects are and shared personal stories and photos from the exchange.
Rokytnice nad Jizerou, Czechia, Oct. 2025
Dissemination by Daniela at Penzion Chata pod Lipami for 12 people. She organized a second session at the same place, passing on the activities and the intercultural side of the week.
Prague, Czechia, Oct. 2025
Dissemination by Adela at her school for 10 classmates. She presented what the group achieved and did during the activity. She paid special attention to the cultural nights and what she learned about the other participants’ lives and cultures. To finish, she pointed her classmates towards other projects they could join and shared a few tips from her own experience.
Ankara, Türkiye, Oct. 2025
Dissemination by Eszter during another Erasmus+ project in Ankara, for 35 people. She showed the activity’s video and told the other participants about Together We Click and the inclusion work behind it.
Bartninkai, Lithuania, Nov. 2025
Dissemination by Yaroslava at Babeckyne for 44 people. She shared Together We Click with the group, passing on what the exchange was about and the opportunities that come with taking part.
