The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development pledges to foster intercultural understanding, tolerance, mutual respect, and an ethic of global citizenship and shared responsibility. SDG 16, commits the international community for preventing all forms of violence and for promoting peaceful, just and inclusive societies free from fear and violence, with accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels. In this current situation, Virtual Exchanges are here in order to give the opportunity to all students and professors/staff to interact and learn through experimental activities focused on annihilating any kind of discrimination and promoting the value of active citizenship. ACT, is 
a Virtual Exchanges project, which aims to bring together students and young people from European and Southern Mediterranean countries and through the implementation of different online formal and non-formal activities will develop the values of active citizenship, freedom, tolerance and non-discrimination. The target group of ACT, lies among students and academic and administrative staff of HEIs as well as youth workers active in their societies and special delegates of policy making bodies. ACT aims to: – increase the access to student mobility opportunities for all students and professors/staff and ensure opportunities for youth participation – foster youth participation in democratic 
life and support social and civic engagement – promote empathy and sensitivity to differences and support the development of interpersonal and intercultural skills – incorporate methods within formal and non-formal education settings that enable learners – develop the values of an active citizen, such as sense of responsibility, active participation and engagement in the society, environmental protection, resilience, human rights respect. ACT’s main scope is the promotion of open-mindedness and the provision of opportunities for active youth participation.
Project Τitle: Virtual exchanges for Active CiTizenship
Project Duration: 01/01/2023-31/12/2025
Project URL: https://project-act.eu/
Project Framework & Funding: ERASMUS+ KA2 – ERASMUS Project Grants. 61.658,85 €
Scientific coordinator (UNIWA): Christos Troussas
Consortium – Partners:
- EUROPAISCHER VERBAND BERUFLICHER BILDUNGSTRAGER (EVBB) EV. Germany
- MITROPOLITIKO COLLEGE ANOYMI EKPAIDEYTIKI ETAIRIA (MC), Greece,
- PANEPISTIMIO DYTIKIS ATTIKIS, Greece,
- MISURATA UNIVERSITY, Libya,
- PALESTINE AHLIYA UNIVERSITY, Palestine,
- UNIVERSITE SIDI MOHAMMED BEN ABDELLAH, Morocco,
- PALESTINE TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY – KADOORIE, Palestine,
- SFAX UNIVERSITY, Tunisia,
- WEYOUTH, Tunisia,
- IBN TOFAIL UNIVERSITY, Morocco,
- PALESTINE POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY, Palestine,
- ARAB AMERICAN UNIVERSITY, Palestine,
- UNIVERSITE SAINT-JOSEPH, Lebanon,
