The authors of these stories can be young people up to 30 years of any nationality (minors can be represented by parents or teachers).

The stories we want to collect can concern:

– projects or initiatives, carried out by informal groups or organizations, which seek to bring improvement in society, in different fields, such as  Human Rights, Equality, Environment, Community, Fair Economy, etc. The authors of the stories should be under 30 but the subjects of these stories can be of any age and nationality.

– individual experiences, autobiographical stories which concern reflections and experiences concerning the theme of personal and social change. For example life experiences that increased our social awareness, meetings that allowed us to know social realities that we didn’t know, historical events lived by the personal point of view, etc.

These stories can be:

– stories you have experienced firsthand, as individuals or as a group;

– or you can tell stories of experiences made by others, people of all ages and countries of origin. 

The archive is open to stories in a range of narrations (autobiographical or biographical):

• Text: autobiographical narration, telling what you experienced directly in first person, or a biographical narration, if you are collecting experiences of other persons. The text in PDF format should be no longer than 15 pages.
• Photo narration (text and pictures): a narration that’s composed of pictures accompanied by texts. It may be an autobiographical narration, telling what you experienced directly in the first person, or a biographical narration, if you are collecting experiences of other persons. Please send in PDF format, it should be no longer than 15 pages.
• Video narration: you can tell the story through diverse types of video narration, such as documentary, video interview, digital storytelling or any other creative form. Maximum length 15 minutes uploaded to file sharing platform such as YouTube and Vimeo (see uploading below).
• Comics: telling a lived experience of intercultural dialogue using graphics/images and text. The story, which should be no longer than 15 pages and sent in PDF format.
• Audionarration: Autobiographical audio narration, telling what you experienced directly in the first person, or a biographical narration, if you are collecting experiences of other persons. Maximum length 5 minutes uploaded to file sharing platform such as YouTube and Vimeo (see uploading below).