Some young people engaged in all partner organizations are discriminated based on sex, gender identity, and sexual orientation and that is widespread across all partner countries. All partners noticed limits of the extent to which young women and LGBTQ+ people are able to participate in society. Significant barriers to full and equal participation exist in they everyday life, education, employment, and political and public decision-making. In our societies homophobic and transphobic attitudes are common and LGBT people are often bullied in schools, discriminated against in the workplace and invisible in public and political decision making. They are also be portrayed as harmful to national identity, the family or religion by media or leaders. Young people in our communities need to understand the terms sex, gender, gender identity, and sexuality because they are confused. Also, when we speak about gender we can not avoid talking about gender-based violence. Many girls experience many different forms of violence, including domestic violence, rape and sexual violence, female genital mutilation (FGM), trafficking, female infanticide and sex-selective abortions and wanted support to come out from the toxic relationship. Youngsters also highlighted that transgender persons are extremely exposed to gender-based violence due to their looks, clothes, and other characteristics and according to their opinion it is necessary to promote gender equality/equity in all our communities by young people. But youth workers/leaders in partner organisations also noticed the similar behavior of young people in their local communities, that most of them are very passive, they do not participate in the creation of activities, they are just consuming them. They lack of self-confidence about their competencies; they are afraid to go out of their comfort zone (physical and mental), they are facing exclusion, and are facing a lack of opportunities (economic, social, and geographical obstacles). Apathy explains why young people do not participate in the creation of programs and lack of their participation in democratic and political life. Some young people find it difficult to mix with people who they deem to be different from them; it is attributed to the mismatch in the attitudes, values and culture. What we want to prevent is generalizing negative attitudes toward gender differences. Their behavior is characterized by fear of gender difference, and at the same time in the "not-comfort" zone, to do something new, to fight own prejudices. Partners already have a group of young people facing different obstacles with skills deficits, for example, verbal skills and public speaking, and negative social attitudes, and stereotyping. someone may have direct or indirect experience of domestic violence, or another may be confused about their sexuality or bullied because their actual or perceived gender identity does not fit the accepted social norms. Some of the participants have direct or indirect experiences of domestic violence, and others are confused about their sexuality or bullied because their actual or perceived gender identity does not fit the accepted social norms. Because of all the reasons mentioned above, partners want to guide (support and coach) young people throughout the process of empowerment and to involve them in all the phases of this project, also to make the local community aware of youth exchange and to be its supporting structure and to impact the local community by youth exchange. With this project, we aim to empower youngsters to be responsible, active citizens with critical and supportive behavior at the local and international levels. Objectives are: 1. To empower young people with fewer opportunities from passive behavior to active participation by being engaged in gender equality issues 2. To develop competences through analyzing and discussing the topics of gender identity and gender expression from local to European levels while challenging discriminatory attitudes towards women or LGBTQ+ people 3. To experience multi-culturalism through meeting and working with youngsters coming from different cultural and linguistic backgrounds. 4. To discover new approaches in non-formal learning influencing youth participation, including e-participation. 5. To become aware of the European community and to use opportunities of the Erasmus + program as a tool for the development of the culture of youth participation on gender issues. Youth-work setting inside the youth exchange will provide a unique and crucial safe space for young men and women to discuss and share their thoughts and experiences on gender and sexuality.