A crucial step on the way to a more cohesive and inclusive European society, are first-hand meetings with marginalised groups, who lack a broad integration into our societies. These first-hand exchanges are an identified need, voiced by young Europeans connected in EMCY´s and the partners´ network. Often the youth hear about marginalised groups as migrants, refugees and disabled persons in the news, but don´t get the chance to meet and exchange with them in depth. This was raised by young persons from Germany, Luxembourg, Lithuania and North Macedonia. “Musical Storytelling” responded to this voiced need. The project offered a protected and comfortable setting for discussing and learning about diversity and inclusion. Its international youth exchanges looked beyond the labels “different, member of a minority, migrant, refugee or disabled person”. The migration background, marginalisation or disability and the difficulties and trauma that came with it, took a back seat. To the fore came the personality and interest of each participant, independently from where this person might originate or what disabilities the person has on the first sight. Therefore, the youth exchanges used music and the arts in general as a tool to connect all participants. Each youth exchange was concluded by a musical and artistic stage performance that the young participants developed throughout the activity. Experienced youth workers supported them and facilitated the workshops. Accompanying personnel rendered the active participation of the young persons with fewer opportunities. Young people from different corners of Europe participated in 6 Youth Exchanges: from Lithuania in the East, Luxembourg in the West, and Germany in its centre. In order to share and disseminate values promoted by the EU and Erasmus+, “Musical Storytelling” in Europe included an EU accession candidate, North Macedonia. The learning content of the project was inclusion, diversity, intercultural and interreligious dialogue, common values of freedom and tolerance as well as a sense of initiative of young people. All youth exchanges of “Musical Storytelling” reached out to marginalised young people, different groups according to the needs voiced by the young participants involved. The workshops in Luxembourg and Germany integrated migrants and refugees, in North Macedonia young Roma, Albanian and Serbian students participated in the activity and the workshops in Lithuania involved young disabled persons and Ukrainian refugees (in the second activity). The learning content of “Musical storytelling” was addressed by non-formal participative methods and wanted to invite the young participants to put themselves into the shoes of “the others”, to better understand them, as a first step towards integration. Once the youngsters got to know the underprivileged participants, their perception changed, because they understood that at the end we are all human beings with the same hopes and feelings. This was the project's modest contribution to preventing violent radicalisation on both ends. “Musical Storytelling” promoted diversity and intercultural dialogue: in order to set up a stage performance, the group of young people firstly needed to listen and find the “right tone” in talking to each other. The participants came from different cultural backgrounds, but their passion for music and the arts in general, offered a common ground. To be passionate about music and/or the arts and of course the interest and openness for the priorities of the activity was the selection criteria for “Musical Storytelling”. The project depended on the input and ideas of the young participants, thus enhancing a sense of initiative and importance of their actions. The input and voice of each participant matters – the basic ingredient for participation in democratic life. In order to extend the reach of this project, the young participants used digital means.