Participation/engagement of rural youth has been traditionally a subject of the lowest priority, too: either it has been a minor part of holistic strategies dealing primarily with employment, health or education, or it has been restricted to NGO activities related to the broader issue of civic education. There are various real and perceived advantages and disadvantages which may attract people, including youth, to live in rural areas: lower housing and living costs, more space, less pollution, closer proximity to nature on one hand; fewer local education or job opportunities or choices, difficulties in accessing public services, including transportation, or a lack of cultural and social venues for leisure, on the other. However, statistics show that real disparities exist between urban and rural areas, with rural youth facing distinct challenges relating to poverty; education, training or employment opportunities, and access to basic services such as health care. According to Eurostat, in 2015, a higher proportion of the population living in rural areas (25.5%) in the EU face the risk of poverty or social exclusion, compared to those living in cities (24.0%) and towns and suburbs (22.1%). For young people (15-29 years) specifically, the percentage of those at risk of poverty or social exclusion is 29.8%, an increase of 3.9% from 2014. The share of young people (aged 18 to 24) living in rural areas who were neither in employment nor in further education or training (NEET) was 3.7% higher than in cities. It is obvious that rural areas are being excluded from economical, cultural and social development in the world because of the ongoing urbanization processes. Specifically in Armenia, Italy, Portugal, Georgia, Ukraine and also Denmark youngsters or do not want to live in rural areas and fleeing to big cities or they stay in the villages and usually are lacking opportunities for self realization, education and participation. From the other hand the lack of information and mobility frames the possibilities of youngsters to strive and develop their creativity and motivation. However, the problem analyzes that the consortium of this project have come was the following: - Lacking of self realization tools for youth from rural areas - Lacking of creative approach in community development - Lacking of information on rural areas among the youth from different countries - Low level of self employment in the area of youth aged 16-30. - Low level of international cooperation, specifically youth from rural areas - Low motivation of youngsters to be a part of the community life and participate in community development The idea of the project "Though colors" has been developed during informal talks of youngsters during the activity "Media Change" in Dilijan Armenia, which took place in November 2019. It has been almost 3 years, while the volunteers of ArmActive youth center are eager to work in a rural environment using different creative tools, which would create a specific atmosphere in the village, will engage the international community as well the youngsters of the local community. During the youth exchange representative of partners from Armenia, Germany, Poland agreed on main elements of the project: Street Art, Rural Development, Engagement of Youth in Economical and Social growth of the community, Cultural Exchange and Creativity. The following Objectives for the Youth exchange were set: - To reinforce youngsters creativity and social initiative senses - To develop participants skills on street art - To develop participants knowledge on rural and community development - To foster participants social entrepreneurship skills - To support youngsters engagement in community life - To support international cooperation and exchange of competences and experience. - To support local communities with creativity and youth power - Due to problems with the Pandemic Portuguese team had to drop out, although we had the most applications from Portugal. Unfortunately, late drop outs of candidates didn't give us much time for recruitment of new participants. We received 18 applications for 5 places for Portugal, but unfortunately in the end only 2 participants confirmed their participation, which was against the rules of Erasmus+ program, so we had to reject them. As final number of participants for the youth exchange was 30 instead of 32. As the local community was very actively involved in the activity starting from the preparation phase, we have recruited 3 more participants from Armenia. The drop out of Portugal group and involvement more participants was actively communicated with the national agency.