Youth Exchange: YouthInnoSport!
Are you ready to combine innovation and sports in one of the most beautiful coastal cities? We are looking for participants for our upcoming Youth Exchange: YouthInnoSport!
📍 Where: Zonguldak, Türkiye
📅 When: 13.02.2026. – 20.02.2026.
🎂 Age: 18 – 30 years old
⏳ Deadline to apply: 17.01.2026.
The YouthInnoSport project was developed in response to the growing need to support young people’s employability and entrepreneurial skills through innovative and engaging tools such as sport. In recent years, challenges like youth unemployment, lack of motivation, and limited access to non-formal learning opportunities have become significant issues across Europe, particularly after the COVID-19 crisis, which reversed much of the progress made in youth employment.
Believing that sport and entrepreneurship share similar dynamics, strategies, and mindsets, the project aims to use the energy, discipline, teamwork, and perseverance found in sports as powerful tools for developing entrepreneurial thinking
among young people. Both athletes and entrepreneurs pursue excellence, face challenges with determination, and learn
from failure, values that are essential for personal and professional growth.
Through this youth exchange, participants from seven European countries will explore how skills learned through sport, such
as leadership, teamwork, strategic thinking, and self-motivation can be transferred to entrepreneurship and everyday life. The project also seeks to promote intercultural learning, solidarity, and inclusion, encouraging young people from diverse
backgrounds to collaborate and inspire each other.
PROJECT OBJECTIVES
- To develop entrepreneurial mindset and skills among 37 young participants and youth leaders through non-formal education and sport-based activities.
- To strengthen intercultural learning and cooperation among youth from 8 different European countries, promoting tolerance, solidarity, and inclusion.
- To increase employability by helping young people gain competencies such as leadership, teamwork, problem-solving, and strategic thinking.
- To explore the links between sport and entrepreneurship, discovering how sports discipline, motivation, and resilience can be applied to business and everyday challenges.
- To promote healthy lifestyles and social responsibility, encouraging participants to be active citizens in their communities.
- To create long-term international cooperation between youth organizations working on entrepreneurship and sport education across Europe.
- To introduce Erasmus+ and Youthpass as tools.
We are looking for individuals who:
- Are interested in entrepreneurship, sport, and personal development,
- Are willing to take part in group discussions, workshops, and outdoor activities,
- Can communicate in basic English (the working language of the project),
- Are active, positive, and respectful towards people from different cultures,
- Are motivated to share what they learn with their local communities after the project.
- Each partner organization will select 4 participants + 1 group leader who will be responsible for coordination and support during the exchange.
ACCOMMODATION, FOOD & TRAVEL
- The project will be hosted in Hotel ERDEM
- The hotel is located in the Kilimli district of Zonguldak, just a 15-minute drive from the city center.
- Accommodation will be provided in triple rooms with single beds. Each room has its own private bathroom and toilet. The hotel also offers free wireless internet access. In addition, there is a basketball court and a tennis court within a 5-minute walking distance from the hotel.
- Each participant will stay in a triple room equipped with single beds.
- Breakfasts, lunches, and dinners, will be provided by the organizers.
- All the instructions on how to arrive at the venue will be sent by email.
TRAVEL AND COST LIMITS:
Bosnia and Herzegovina – Fully Covered
Don’t miss this chance to meet young people from across Europe, develop new skills, and explore the stunning landscapes of Zonguldak!
🔗 APPLY NOW via the link