From the member’s experience of working with youth in the last few years, and since our recent activity with the Erasmus Plus projects for youth, connected with Structured dialogue and advocacy and media trainings we have been helping organize for the youth, we, as members of WYA Portugal, started to notice issues that we would like to react to. By organizing these projects for youth and through the communication with young people from other partner organizations, we noticed that there was a huge lack of awareness about the EU identity among youth. Regardless all our peers growing up in a European Union that is connected now more than ever (we can study abroad more easily than before, we can travel much more than our parents did, we are having more and more international friends) remains a lack of awareness among youth about EU values and EU identity, that should serve us as a bond. We have noticed that youth are not that open to different, intercultural or inter-religious dialogue. They are experiencing international European experiences, but are still not so connected with EU identity. In one research, made in Belgium, ̋The Europeans of tomorrow. Researching European identity among young Europeans. ̋ the author presented: “Seventy-five million Europeans are between 15 and 25 years old and they have become a more and more important target group for the EU, especially since last referendum show that a majority of the 18-24-year-olds voted against the Constitutional Treaty and the Lisbon Treaty”. This does not mean, however, that these young people do not support or trust the EU (see Eurobarometer). Their numbers may perhaps therefore not be interpreted as a total rejection of the EU, but as an outcry for a different Europe. Criticism should not automatically be mistaken with apathy and rejection. This young generation has grown up with the EU as an evident entity, but for now, this does not seem to result in a substantially higher level of identification than older generations. ̋ Other statistics are confirming: in a Eurobarometer poll from 2016, more than half of young people in Europe, or 57 percent, say they have been marginalized and excluded from economic and social life in their countries in the wake of the global financial crisis. 90% of respondents say that it is important for young European to learn about the EU and how its institutions work. Across the EU as a whole, 88% of young people aged 16 to 30 years have never traveled to another EU country to study or work. More than half of young people in Europe have the impression that, in their country, the young have been marginalized and excluded from economic and social life by the crisis (57%). With the aim of giving back the faith to the European youth in the EU, we have designed a 5 days training for the 37 youth, “Why eU: European Values”, that happened from September, 27th to October 1st, with the aim of empowering the youth with skills, knowledge and methods. We believed that this project would raise their awareness about the EU values and EU identity, and empower them to become the active EU citizens. The objectives of the project “Why eU: European Values” were: - To transfer the European values of human dignity, freedom, tolerance, diversity, intercultural and inter religious dialogue and promote European identity among 37 youth -To develop skills, knowledge and tools to recognize hate speech, extremism, violence and threats to human rights online, and to be able to constructively confront them with the method of critical thinking -To strengthen digital competences, multimedia literacy and sense of initiative among 37 youth to actively promote European values of human dignity and rights with the aim of reducing the violent radicalization among youth in Europe.