Every Erasmus youth exchange participant faces this moment: cultural evening, where you have 15 minutes to present your country.
And that’s when the panic sets in – what should you do?
Show slides with flags and population stats?
Cook traditional food half the group can’t eat because of allergies?
Forget standard presentations. Your goal is to create an experience that makes people remember your country monthsafter the training week ends.
Bitsy lets you create a pixel game about your regular day – without writing a single line of code. Imagine the scene: Italians, Germans and Spaniards literally walking through your morning – waking up in your room, cooking breakfast with a family recipe, visiting the market from your childhood, having dinner with your family. They’re not just watching – they’re living your daily life from within. It takes a few hours to make, but the impression lasts a lifetime.
Notion becomes a virtual cultural showcase where everything is gathered in one place. Create a page like “My Catalonia in Five Senses”, and add real sounds of a city evening, photos from Book and Love Day celebrations, melodies your parents danced to when they were young. Participants can click, listen, explore for hours. Add a section with untranslatable phrases from your native language – every culture has these gems. And maybe you’ll find common ground.
Radio Garden brings your city to life in real time during the presentation. Click a dot on the map – and there it is, your hometown radio playing at that exact moment, thousands of kilometers from the training center. Show what your neighborhood sounds like in the morning, what plays on the buses at night. It’s magic. When a Polish participant hears live Warsaw radio, or a Portuguese one instantly recognizes a childhood melody.
StoryMapJS creates an interactive map of your memories. Every dot becomes a story: the park where you learned to ride a bike, the café where you met friends after school, the street with your first cinema. Participants travel through your life, moving across real places filled with real stories. Add photos, voice notes, even short videos.
Why talk about culture in abstract terms when you can show real life through details, sounds and personal stories? These tools create an emotional connection that stays with people far longer than traditional lectures about “customs and traditions.” Years from now, participants won’t remember your country’s population statistics. They’ll remember how your country performed at Eurovision, the taste of your grandma’s food, the sound of rain in your hometown – and the feeling of stepping into your childhood for five minutes.