💛 Youth Exchange in Italy – Explore Attachment, Heal Together & Build Secure Connections Across Europe! 🇮🇹

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🌍 Project Overview

Welcome to Securely Attached to EU, a transformative Erasmus+ Youth Exchange rooted in attachment theory, emotional well-being and human connection.

Hosted in the peaceful countryside of Presenzano, Italy 🇮🇹, this programme brings together passionate young people from:
🇮🇹 Italy • 🇪🇪 Estonia • 🇸🇪 Sweden • 🇹🇷 Türkiye • 🇱🇻 Latvia • 🇵🇱 Poland

Over 10 meaningful days, surrounded by nature and a supportive international community, participants will explore the emotional patterns that shape how we love, trust, and relate to others. Through reflection, group dialogue, creativity, nature-based activities and shared experiences, they will deepen their understanding of themselves and build healthier connection habits.

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📅 Activity Details

• Dates: 19–28 February 2026 (including travel days)
• Location: Agriturismo Masseria Cardilli, Presenzano 🇮🇹
• Age: 18–27 (Group Leaders can be older)
• Language: English
• Funding: 100% covered (travel reimbursement + accommodation + meals)

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💛 About the Project

Many young people navigate life carrying attachment patterns formed long before they understood them — chasing closeness, avoiding vulnerability, fearing abandonment, or seeking control to feel safe. These patterns influence friendships, romantic relationships, teamwork, communication, conflict and emotional resilience.

This project creates a safe, inclusive and human space where participants can:

• Explore their own attachment style
• Understand how early experiences shape current emotions
• Build empathy, trust, and emotional awareness
• Learn regulation and resilience
• Strengthen peer-support networks
• Develop healthier relationship habits
• Grow personally through storytelling, reflection, community and nature

The programme is grounded in the work of Bowlby and Ainsworth, exploring secure, anxious, avoidant, and disorganised attachment patterns — NOT as therapy, but as a guided experiential youth-friendly learning process.

“Every secure relationship is a gift to the child inside you who longed for safety.”

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🎯 Objectives

• 🌱 Support young people in identifying their attachment styles
• 🤝 Strengthen peer-support networks via youth-led groups
• 🧠 Teach emotional regulation & resilience strategies
• 💬 Encourage open, healthy conversations around relationships & mental health
• 💛 Equip participants with tools for secure, meaningful connections
• 🌍 Build emotional awareness essential for personal & community well-being

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🔐 Mental Health & Safety

This Youth Exchange is NOT therapy, nor a substitute for mental health support.
Because the topic is sensitive:

• Participants must show emotional readiness
• Respect, empathy and confidentiality are mandatory
• Anyone in severe emotional distress is encouraged to seek professional help
• Zero-tolerance for hate speech, discrimination, aggression or harmful behaviour

Participants violating group safety will be immediately disqualified.

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👤 Participant Profile

Applicants must:

• Be 18–27 years old
• Be citizens/residents of 🇮🇹🇪🇪🇸🇪🇹🇷🇱🇻🇵🇱
• Communicate in English
• Respect emotional boundaries & group safety
• Participate fully for all days
• Show genuine motivation for reflection and connection

18 spots are reserved for young people with fewer opportunities.

“To understand your attachment style is to finally understand why you love the way you do.”

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🏨 Accommodation

Participants will stay at Agriturismo Masseria Cardilli, a peaceful farmhouse in the countryside of Presenzano, near Caserta and Naples.

You will enjoy:

• Comfortable shared rooms (3-person, same gender; some double beds shared)
• Private bathrooms, towels & linens
• 3 freshly prepared Italian meals daily + 2 coffee breaks
• Local farm products (buffalo mozzarella, vegetables, herbs)
• Gorgeous indoor/outdoor spaces for workshops & relaxation
• Immersive nature that supports reflection and emotional grounding

“You don’t lose parts of yourself when you heal; you reclaim the ones you abandoned.”

Accommodation’s Facebook page was provided in the original listing.

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✈️ Travel Information

From Naples Airport → Presenzano

1️⃣ Alibus to Napoli Centrale
2️⃣ Train to Vairano-Caianello (frequent; last ~19:50)

From Rome Airport → Presenzano

1️⃣ Airport bus to Roma Termini
2️⃣ Train to Vairano-Caianello (choose direct; last ~18:00)

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📆 Project Timeline

• Application Deadline: 15 December 2025
• Selection: Ongoing
• Final List: 20 December 2025
• National Preparatory Meetings: 20 Dec – 20 Jan
• Project: 19–28 February 2026
• Dissemination: Up to 2 months

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📢 Dissemination & Reimbursement

To receive travel reimbursement, participants MUST:
✔ Save all tickets, invoices, boarding passes
✔ Complete dissemination tasks
✔ Submit peer-support group documentation
✔ Cooperate with national teams

Reimbursement (2–3 months) only after:

• All eligible travel documents received
• Dissemination reports submitted

Contact:
office@eunexus.ee
+39-3488768732
www.eunexus.ee
@eunexus.ee

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🔗 Application Link

INFOPACK → https://bit.ly/SATEU
APPLICATION FORM → https://forms.gle/tLC4DhjCyy9pa2g19

📅 Deadline: 15 December 2025

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🌍 Eligible Countries

🇮🇹 Italy
🇪🇪 Estonia
🇸🇪 Sweden
🇹🇷 Türkiye
🇱🇻 Latvia
🇵🇱 Poland

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