The youth exchange “ProActive Youth” aimed at promoting the building and strengthening of open and democratic societies of the European Union. The content of the youth exchange was based on a concept of volunteering, participation, sharing experiences, experiential learning, so all that gained enabled the participants to use it in their countries for developing initiatives on local and regional level. The objectives of the project that we wanted to achieve were the following: •To develop a common understanding of participation and explore instruments for its promotion among groups of young people • To increase the volume and quality of youth participation and raise awareness on concepts of citizenship, participation, volunteering, civil society and democracy; • To improve participants’ skills in project-management and develop youth initiatives through various concepts and methodologies; • To develop participants’ competence in using the revised European Charter on the Participation of Young People in Local and Regional Life • To develop new tools and ideas for follow up and the further cooperation within the programme Erasmus+ • To make the participants familiar with the Erasmus+ programme and other opportunities. The project was focused on: Active participation, voluntary work and youth initiatives, concept of civil society and democracy, European Charter on Youth Participation on local and regional level, current needs of the young people, project development, creation of reader for active youth participation as well as developing different ideas for youth initiatives and establish sustainable cooperation among the young people from different countries.