Educational Trip Foundation works with young people from various groups, including supporting youth local governments in Lower Silesia. With this project, we wanted to strengthen the Youth City Council in Zmigrod and the Youth Parliament of Lower Silesia and their participation in an international context. The task of this project was to create the seeds of cooperation between youth councils, organizations and institutions in the field of participation - including local government and non-government to support the development of local communities. Training course and project activities were intended to allow networking and support cooperation in the international arena. In addition, they were intended to strengthen the youth governments with which the organization works on a daily basis. Objectives: - exchange of experience - joint discovery of opportunities and forms of youth work - strengthening the capacity of guardians and leaders of youth councils toward better and more effective work with young people in consultative bodies Specific objectives: - getting to know partner organizations and their representatives, as well as youth councils and their leaders from the project countries - the environments and contexts of youth councils, including in different cultural circles - exchanging good practices, experiences and ideas for activities in the field of youth council participation (in the form of short - 30 minutes - expert sessions conducted by individual partners) - learning about the European and global context of youth participation - reflecting on the theory of youth participation - discussing the idea of participation (session on participation models and Hart's ladder) and trying to create an ideal model of cooperation between youth council and local government - getting to know new participatory methods and techniques - getting to know good practices and the Polish context of functioning of youth consultative bodies (meeting with a guest, meeting with a representative of PROM) - strengthening the motivation of youth council supervisors and youth council leaders for further work (session on motivation and the dangers of activist burnout) - to create the nucleus of a cooperation network in the thematic area of youth and democracy, with a special focus on youth consultative bodies - preparation of plans and ideas for cooperation in the new Erasmus+ program