Our vision for carrying out this project was to provide youth workers with some tools to enable young people to see themselves as equal and important participants in our democratic societies and to give young people a better democratic understanding. We wanted to strengthen youth participation in the partner organisations and the partner countries, and to have a better understanding of the importance of values and non formal learning methods in youth work. We had five main objectives in this project: 1. To strengthen our knowledge about and competence in non-formal learning methods 2. To learn from each other about youth work and youth involvement in rural and urban areas 3. To focus on values in youth work - to be aware of our own values in our meeting with different (young) people, and to be able to adress the issue of values in our work with young people 4. To share experiences on structural youth participation at a local and regional level 5. To increase the visibility and recognition of both organisations as contributing stakeholders in youth work and in the youthfield in general, this at local and regional level, but also with national dimension.