“Be Active. Participate.” Training Course gathered 24 youth workers from eight countries for 8 days in Kolin, Czech Republic to tackling the challenges posed today by a disaffection young people are feeling towards politics in general, and specifically towards active participation and citizenship, attracted by radicalised and extremist groups and their destructive tendencies rather than a constructive dialogue. This training course aims at empowering youth workers to be able to explain, and involve, young people in politics and specifically in policy-making, equipping them with hands-on skills, democratic attitudes and knowledge of political processes in order to foster the development of the ninth competence on political awareness. This project aimed at tackling the following issues: 1) The increasing attraction young people today feel towards radicalised and extremist groups. 2) Passiveness of youth when it comes to local, national and European politics and lack of concrete knowledge on these processes 3) The growing impact on young people of fake news, disinformation and hate speech Our aim was to equip participants with: • Non formal methods to introduce political competence to locally work with young people • Know-how on policy creation, development, advocacy and implementation • Developing an understanding of the scenario in today’s Europe and how it affects young people and youth workers, and the link to human rights, specifically right to active participation. • By developing competences in public communication, and establishing structured dialogue with relevant authorities. • By enabling and empowering youth organisations to create their own policies and offer them to the public AIM - To increase the awareness of youth workers and young people and equip them with tool to construct an enabling environment for youth workers and youth organisations to take part in political decision-making and problem-solving processes. OBJECTIVES 1) To explore basic principles of politics, its' role in today's society and relation with youth work; 2) To link active participation with various human rights violation issues based on the European Charter of Fundamental Rights; 3) To study the development of policies and tools that are applied to youth politics; 4) To practice communication skills required for political participation, political lobbying and governance; 5) To develop youth policy amendment drafts that organizations can propose in their youth, community or city councils.