Bridging cultures. Building communities.
Empowering youth and educators to overcome barriers and build meaningful connections.
About
OUR WHY
Connection Vibes emerged from the growing need to create meaningful, authentic connections among young people in a world shaped by digital isolation, migration, and cultural differences.
Recognizing the challenges faced by youth in forming deep relationships, this Erasmus+ project focuses on fostering understanding, empathy, and active citizenship to bridge divides and build inclusive communities.
OUR GOALS
Develop innovative tools for deep connection
Create three tools (a card game, a gamebook, and a soulful conversation manual) to facilitate meaningful connections among youth from diverse backgrounds, fostering intercultural understanding and overcoming barriers to inclusion.
Training for Educators and Youth Workers
Provide comprehensive training for 12 youth workers and teachers across partner countries by mid-2025. This training will equip them with methodologies and tools to create inclusive environments and lead connection-focused activities.
Community building
Apply the developed tools and trained methodologies in at least 12 local communities of the participant countries by the end of Q3 2025, gathering insights and feedback for refinement and measuring impactof our tools, in order to shape our final results so they have a real power of changing the way young people in mixed communities connect and grow together.
Raise awareness
The 12 communities will only be the beginning. We will conduct at least three awareness campaigns by the project’s end, going to wider audiences. We want not just to promote the tools we create, but also emphasize the importance of giving youth the right tools and space to connect, no matter their background or how different they are to one another.
Foster social inclusion
Address challenges such as migrant integration, digital isolation, and barriers to participation by promoting empathy, understanding, and active citizenship.
Tools & Resources
Social Card Game
A dynamic card game designed to break barriers and foster meaningful connections.
Through storytelling-based gameplay, players share experiences, overcome challenges, and earn points while building genuine relationships.
Perfect for groups of 2 or more, our game will be accessible and portable.
Rule Book
An essential companion to our card game, the Game Book outlines engaging ways to play while fostering meaningful connections.
It will include the game mechanics, the points economy, as well as tips and tricks on how to make the most of it while truly sparking meaningful connections, based on empathy.
Beyond the Game
A facilitator’s manual to the ConnectiON Vibes card game, Beyond the Cards is a practical playbook for youth workers and educators.
It covers session flow, group dynamics, and emotional safety. With checklists, phrases, and tools, it ensures the game becomes a powerful experience of trust and belonging.
Unlocking Connection
A guidebook for facilitators and educators that explores the deeper principles behind meaningful conversations. It blends theory, tools, and practices for creating safe spaces, empathy, and presence.
Designed as a completing resource to the ConnectiON Vibes game, it helps transform dialogue into real, lasting human connection.
Training of Trainers
A training program launching in October 2025, equipping youth workers and educators with the skills to facilitate meaningful connections.
The the training methodology will include multiple ways to use our tools effectively, that will help youth workers and educators create inclusive spaces for young people in their local communities, no matter their backgrounds.
Blog
From Dopamine Scrolls to Deep Connection: Reclaiming Our Attention and Relationships
We live in a paradox. Never in history have we been so connected, and yet so disconnected. Our devices keep us plugged into a constant stream of updates, notifications, and recommendations, but the...
Connection Vibes: A Shared Practice of Deep Conversations and Co-Creation
Behind Every Card: A Story of CollaborationIn a world where fast-paced interactions often overshadow meaningful dialogue, Connection Vibes brings something refreshingly different to the table — or...
The Power of Storytelling: How Sharing Our Stories Creates Meaningful Connections
Storytelling is one of the oldest and most powerful ways we connect as humans. Through stories, we share our experiences, make sense of our emotions, and invite others into our world. But beyond...
Events
Local Pop-Up Game Plays
Wanna play ConnectiON Vibes? We organize local pop-up game plays in the partner countries: Romania, Italy, and Cyprus. You can check if there’s any pop-up game play happening in your area.
Also, if you’re from some place else and there’s no events in your area, but wanna organize one within your community, you can become an ambassador.
Dissemination Events
After our Training for Youth Workers in Italy, we will get back home and share with you what we learned.
If you work with youth on a daily basis and wanna learn how to facilitate a safe space for vulnerability through our game, join the guest list for our dissemination events in Italy, Romania, and Cyprus.
We’ll let you know once we have the dates and places ready.
Multiplier Events
The results are almost ready, and we can’t wait to share our journey in the past year with our local communities in Italy, Romania, and Cyprus.
The Multipliers will be a space of sharing the results we created and our experiences during the project, and get feedback from the youth and youth workers in the community.
Wanna participate? Give us a heads up.
Get involved
This is not just another Erasmus+ project. We want to build a community of people that are genuinely interested in youth and their quality of life.
The longest study about happiness ever conducted states that people that have healthy relationships are happier and live longer.
Every healthy relationship starts with true, authentic connection. And we are here to take connection on a different level, even in communities where youth are normally having a hard time interacting and connecting with one another.
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PROJECT PARTNERS
Schimbare cu Sens
ROMANIA
Youmore
ITALY
The Serendipitous Black Cloud
CYPRUS
Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them. [Project no. 2024-1-RO01-KA210-YOU-000250404]