Our European society is based on democracy and its main values, such as tolerance, equality, compromises etc. In last few years appeared various phenomena such as „traditional parties crisis“ which are similar in many EU countries. For example in Czech Republic we can see it in a recent research showing that significant percentage of voters doesn’t trust prime minister neither the leaders of parties. This is also seen in decreasing voter turnout, because people are upset of the unsolved issues and laws which they do not see sense in. The voters are disappointed by the political situation, which they see unsatisfying and also by election promises, which often aren't fulfilled. However people usually don't see the background of being politician, which means to face various issues, such as negotiation with other parties as well as trying to fulfil their election promises and political programme. As mentioned above, one of factors showing critical situation of democracy is decreasing voter turnout. In Czech Republic it appears among various age groups, also among youngsters who are in general consider as active. For example the turnout during the election to the Chamber of Deputies in 2017 was 60,84% of registered voters, in 1996 the turnout was 76,41%. Moreover, big part of population is not interested in European Parliament election neither in municipal election - we can see this tendency not only in Czechia, and these statistics are really alarming.That’s another reason why this project was important, we motivated young people to use their right to vote and prevent the decreasing turnout, because the elected politicians can make significant changes in their cities, regions and country. The main goal of this project was to show youngsters how important is democracy, critical thinking and sense of compromise and to motivate them to be active citizens who really care about public issues. The idea of this project was initiated by young law students and member of Active Youth Club Erasmaci (club for active youth involved in SVC Decko), who participated in a political simulations, which was really inspirational for them, so based on this experience they decided to share it with teenagers and youth workers trough this project. We chose the title "The Taste of Democracy", because many people doesn't know the background of political decisions, they do not know how whole system works, so we gave them chance to personally experience it, to taste it. The objectives of this project were: - To raise the awareness of the importance of democracy, rule of law and division of powers (legislation, executive, judiciary) - To extend knowledge of youth on democracy, political system and EU - To raise the interest of young people in election and public affairs - To improve communication skills, making compromise and to raise the tolerance of different values and opinions - To provide youth workers with an unusual method of work, useful for development of competencies, teaching about the active citizenship and democracy - To encourage youngsters to be more open minded and active in their society The project was based on non-formal learning, which led the participants to improve their learning performance by experiencing new methods of learning. The main method was role-play (simulation), which helped participants and leaders to understand the principles of democracy, legislative process and division of powers. During the simulation, which was the main part of the youth exchange, the leaders and participants became members of a parliament („representatives“) of a fictional country which needed a constitutional and legislation change in general, so they were able to experience how the politics can work or should work. During the simulation the participants had an opportunity to face various situations such as negotiation between members of various political parties. They were divided into fictional political parties with different political programme and specific target group of voters.Their main task was to find the compromises and complete as much points of their political programme as possible. There were also a workshops and other activities apart the simulation, because the simulation is very often physically and mentally exhausting so we decided to incorporate these activities in order to keep the participants and leaders fresh and motivated for active participating in the key part of the project, which was the simulation.