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Empowering Youth through Storytelling and Sustainability
October 20 - 29 2025
Petra, Jordan

Echoes of The Earth

Aerial view of pastures and farmlands in Brittany, France

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<h2 style="white-space:pre-line">E+ Youth Exchange </h2>
<p>We are thrilled to announce our first official Erasmus+ youth exchange taking place in Jordan! </p>
<p>In the rose-red city of Petra, a new story is unfolding—told by young artists, dreamers &amp; changemakers from across the globe. Echoes of the Earth is more than a youth exchange—it’s a journey into storytelling, sustainability, and ancient wisdom. For 8 days, participants from France, Italy, Greece, Egypt and Jordan will explore Petra’s rich cultural heritage, learn from indigenous knowledge, create art inspired by the land, and co-create performances with the local Bedouin community. From candlelit storytelling circles to watercolor landscapes, this is about reconnecting with the Earth, reclaiming our voices, and becoming leaders for a more just and sustainable world.</p>

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Meet the Facilitators

<h2 style="white-space:pre-line">Ready to embark on a magical adventure full of ancient tales? </h2>
<p class="normal">As we weave together stories, art, environmental consciousness, and ancient wisdom, our voices do not fade—they echo to guide the path for generations to come. Echoes of the Earth: Empowering Youth Through Storytelling and Sustainability is more than a project. It is a homecoming to the roots of human connection, a reclamation of the past to build a better future, and an invitation to co-author a new chapter in the story of Petra.</p>

The Northern Lights

Is a non-profit association located in France, dedicated to education and land management based on regenerative agriculture , represented and led by a collective on a traditional farm in Bresse (Ain, France).

We bring together people from here and elsewhere around the goal of resilient and
abundant production of our livelihoods through a place that tests the knowledge and practices of agroecology .

In light of the environmental, social and economic prism of agroecological production, we are experimenting with techniques and technologies that are sober and restorative of natural environments, capable of improving the economic condition of individuals and social ties.

A wealth of knowledge and know-how makes this resilient abundance plausible. Constantly refined by scientific observations. We seek to promote their appropriation by everyone during training seminars, participatory construction sites and housing, school workshops and by constituting an encyclopedic network.

At each stage of this experiment, we involve companies, associations, public institutions and individuals who also wish to appropriate this knowledge or know-how and contribute to its dissemination.

 Our goals
Our goals
1- Demonstrate that we have the possibility of meeting our food, water and energy needs without jeopardizing those of present and future generations
2 - Contribute to regional, national and European food security
3- Share our learning and learn from what is done around the world
4 - Welcome and develop cultural activities

Dedicate an agricultural site to experimentation
- experimenting with collective and individual tools and practices to work towards food and energy security, the local economy, soil and biodiversity restoration, and the restoration of water, carbon and nutrient cycles.
Dedicating a farm to making experiments
- experimenting with collective and individual tools and practices that favor food and energetic security, local economy, that restore soils and biodiversity as well as water and carbon cycles.
Training the artisans of change
- through workshops, national and European seminars, volunteering and on-site meetings, we create a hub to connect and support different groups and individuals invested in their own communities, for an ecologically regenerative, economically viable and socially fairer future.