The aim of the educational work carried out by the Kurt Löwenstein Education Centre is to enable children and young people to analyze their own situation in a socio-political context and to relate it to their own interests. Through participatory activities, participants learn to recognize, articulate and publicly represent their own interests and needs. In doing so, they can experience for themselves the possibilities and limitations of co-determination and interest representation and try out structures of democratic participation. As a youth association educational centre belonging to a political children's and youth association that aims to represent the interests of children and young people, fundamental aspects of political participation run through all our educational programs. Our partners are youth organizations, youth work providers and civil society initiatives by and for young people in Europe and around the world. As political educators, we are committed to strengthening democratic culture. Based on the interests of children and young people themselves, we work with them to develop socio-political demands and empower them to stand up for their interests and demands. Our project partners came mainly from the European Educational Network for Solidarity, Democracy and Equality. Founded in 2005, the network now includes 25 youth work/education organizations from over 20 countries, mainly in the EU and the Middle East. Our seminars and meetings connect and facilitate exchanges between young people, political educators for children and young people, youth workers, people active in politics and civil society, and other interested parties. In our work, we primarily use non-formal approaches to strengthen young people's participation in society, and we discuss and reflect on these approaches in our seminars. It is important to address the respective social conditions and to highlight different perspectives on how the topic is viewed from one's own point of view. Based on this, we exchange ideas about our respective educational work, jointly develop non-formal learning concepts (and further develop them if necessary) and take these back to our respective educational work on site, acting as multipliers in our organizations and spheres of influence. This transfer to their own work on site subsequently has an important lasting effect. Our aim is to ensure that the knowledge acquired by professionals in the seminars is subsequently used in their work on site and to encourage them to make their own contributions to the topics of the seminars in their work locally. In this way, our educational programs have a multiplier effect. Our educational work aims at emancipatory personal development and thus also has a preventive effect against radicalization and promotes social cohesion. Our educational institution has been active in the three core areas of the EU Youth Strategy – participation, encounter and empowerment – since its foundation more than 50 years ago. Participants are encouraged to contribute suggestions for topics for future measures. For a long time now, we have also been offering our participants online networking opportunities in preparation for seminars and encounters, which can still be used after a seminar. We combine analogue and digital learning, have our own digital learning platform and make intensive use of collaborative digital tools. Our seminars are conducted by an international team of freelance lecturers. They have extensive knowledge in the field of youth work and are former participants in our international seminars who have undergone further training through our qualification programs and now work as freelance lecturers themselves. Our seminar design processes are transparent and participatory, both for freelance lecturers and participants. All our seminars have fixed program items that ensure the active participation of participants and make them the subject of the learning process. Participating and getting involved means taking responsibility and thereby experiencing self-efficacy and belonging, which not only helps to strengthen the self and develop social skills, but also strengthens young people's resistance to misanthropic and anti-democratic attitudes and contributes to their resilience. Politically, all the goals of the EU Youth Strategy are relevant to us. This time, we are addressing a large part of the EU youth goals thematically, with individual goals being addressed to varying degrees within our activities, in particular issues of equality, inclusive society and the participation and involvement of young people.