The aim of the Act!vate training course is the increase of active participation among young people with fewer opportunities. The last Eurobarometer research on the topic showed that 47 % of young people is not included in any structures that would enable them active participation. This percentage is even higher among young people with fewer opportunities, especialli those with social and economic obstacles, which points to the fact that social inclusion a often goes hand in hand with low level of active participation. The environment, parents and teacher often search for reasons behind that in pasive nature of young people. But the fact is one cannot blame only young people for being passive, since everytime we point a finger at young person, three fingers always point back at us. The Council of Europe issued the framework of 20 competences for democratic culture which young citizens require to participate effectively in a culture of democracy, but the fact is that is is difficult for young people to develop them on their own, therefore youth workers are the one that need to strengthen those competencies in the first place and develop new mwthods of youth work that will enable us to sucessfully forward them to young people. Thus the aim of the project Act!vate is to stregthen the competencied of youth workers for the development of non-formal methods for encouraging young participation in decision-making processes among young people with fewer opportunities and to develop new methods of youth work for raising the level of active participation amony young people with fewer opportunites.