🇵🇹 Erasmus+ Youth Exchange in Portugal ♻️ Reshape Plastic Waste 🌍

Did you know you can reuse plastic waste that has lost its function? Join the "ReShape" Youth Exchange in Évora, Portugal, and discover how to manage your plastic use more consciously — and how digital tools can help protect the environment!

Through workshops and seminars, you'll learn the benefits of recycling, understand the environmental impact of plastic production, and gain practical skills for a sustainable lifestyle. Plus, you'll travel abroad, improve your language skills, and connect with young people from different cultures.

New to youth exchanges? Here's how to plan yours: Youth exchange planning

🎯 About the Project

Be the one who reshapes! This Erasmus+ Youth Exchange brings together young people from Portugal, Romania, Greece, Türkiye, Latvia, and Ukraine to develop common, innovative, and applicable solutions to the problem of plastic waste.

The project aims to:

♻️ Convey the role of digital platforms and tools in reducing plastic consumption and expanding recycling processes

💪 Strengthen participants' leadership and organizational skills, supporting them to develop sustainable solutions to plastic pollution

🌍 Strengthen intercultural collaboration between young people from different countries

🔄 Promote plastic recycling not as a necessity but as a way to conserve a valuable resource, encouraging individual and societal behavioral change

👥 Who Can Participate

🔹 4 participants (18–30 years old) + 1 team leader (18+) from Türkiye

🔹 Interested in creating new ideas and protecting the environment

🔹 Ready to engage in all daily activities

🔹 Committed to disseminating the outcomes back home

🔹 Diversity and inclusion are a priority

⚠️ This call is for participants from Türkiye only.

🏠 Accommodation & Food

🛏️ Stay at Pousada de Évora dos SSAP — a comfortable facility geared to international standards, in shared gender-based dormitories with air conditioning, Wi-Fi, towels, and storage

🍽️ 3 meals per day plus a coffee break with snacks between sessions

☀️ Weather in Évora (19–26 July) is hot and sunny (30–38°C) — bring light clothes, sunscreen, swimsuits, a hat, sunglasses, and a reusable water bottle

☕ Mug Exchange: bring a mug meaningful to you or featuring motifs from your country to share a memory with friends!

💰 Travel Reimbursement

Travel expenses are reimbursed based on the Erasmus+ Distance Calculator, using the cheapest means of transport with original invoices. Tickets must be purchased after confirmation from the host organization. Travel limits:

Taxi or private car is not covered. Keep all tickets, boarding passes, and invoices as PDF (screenshots not accepted).

📌 Important

📲 It's mandatory to follow the organisation on Instagram: @adanayouthassociation

🎥 The application form asks for a 1-minute self-presentation video — ensure your environment is suitable for recording

⚠️ The organizer states that any applicants using AI tools will be eliminated immediately and won't be accepted for future projects

🌐 After the project, you'll prepare a dissemination activity sharing your experience

Activity Details

Location: Évora, Portugal Dates: 19–26 July 2026 Sending Organisation: Adana Gençlik ve Kalkınma DerneğiParticipating Countries: Portugal, Romania, Greece, Türkiye, Latvia, Ukraine