COCAT (Coordinadora d’Organitzadors de Camps de Treball de Catalunya ) is a network of workamp organizers/youth organizations of Catalonia. COCAT has 7 full members organisations: CRUC, Fundació Catalana de l’Esplai, Fundació Escolta Josep Carol, Obre’t Ebre, Grup d’Esplai Vidrerenc, Balmes Blancs and Associació Terra Roia, and collaborate with other during the year with the aim of coordinating workcamps in Catalonia, as a tool for personal development among the youth and local development for the communities where workcamps take place. » The members and partners of COCAT, as entities with a participative and social working base as we are, want to foster workcamps as a tool of international voluntary service to potentiate cultural exchange. We work for the spreading of the awareness of Catalonia among youngsters from all over the world, from the singularity which represents it and knowing the social and cultural reality of Catalonia. » COCAT wants to promote that every workcamp has the principles of transversality, autonomy and reciprocity, in order to potentiate the active and decisive participation of beneficiaries during all the process of development of the projects. » COCAT also wants to potentiate a direct relationship of youngsters from different social, cultural and geographical realities and entities. Always working from the values of interculturality, conflict transformation and peace culture, sustainable development, and finally having activism and creative expression as a tool of participation and transformation.