Through the StReEt Project: School of Community Journalism #inruralrhythm, implemented by Go Free - the Association for the Support of Civil Society (GO FREE) in partnership with the Association for Active Development (ADA), we aimed to: 1. Develop participation and media advocacy skills for 35 young people from rural areas, within the European Youth Village community. 2. Enhance the capacity of 35 rural youth to identify, monitor, and counter hate speech, social injustice, and also highlight good practices. 3. Increase the level of participation and dialogue with public authorities among 180 young people from rural areas in decision-making processes in their communities, through 9 local events. 4. Raise awareness of the needs, issues, and best practices in rural communities, particularly within the European Youth Village, by developing a Rural Youth Newsroom practicing community journalism under the umbrella of the European Youth Village program. What we accomplished: 1. We developed participation and media advocacy skills for 50 young people from rural areas within the European Youth Village community. 2. We strengthened the capacity of 50 rural youth to identify, monitor, and counter hate speech, social injustices, and highlight examples of good practices. 3. We increased the level of participation and dialogue with public authorities for over 220 young people from rural areas in decision-making processes in their communities, through 11 local events (4x Street Debate, 3x Go Free 24H, and 3x Café Journalism for Justice). 4. We brought visibility to the needs, problems, and positive examples from rural communities within and beyond the European Youth Village by establishing the Small Rural Newsroom / Mica Redacție Rurală (MRR) - a youth-led structure that practices community journalism under the European Youth Village program. The project supported the development and consolidation of an alternative structure for youth participation in rural areas - Mica Redacție Rurală (MRR) - currently composed of young people from different villages and communes across Romania. The project aimed to empower rural youth to engage in community life by using community journalism to identify, document, and report on the challenges, needs, and positive practices from their own communities. Through the School of Community Journalism, we set out to develop media, social, personal, civic, and digital skills, as well as a sense of belonging to the European Youth Village community. We created non-formal learning environments for rural youth and enhanced their employability in fields such as media production, public communication, and more. Through the project’s activities, we aimed to develop and consolidate a rural newsroom as a participatory structure that: -becomes a voice for young people from rural communities; -informs and connects young people from rural Romania; -develops a national communication and news channel managed by rural youth; -builds, under the umbrella of the European Youth Village program, opportunities for growth, participation, and collaboration for rural youth; -empowers and activates rural youth; -documents the reality of rural youth, collects stories and positive examples from the community, and gives them visibility; -draws the attention of public authorities and media representatives to the real needs of young people in rural areas; -facilitates dialogue between rural youth and decision-makers to find solutions to their challenges; -influences public policies responsibly through media advocacy actions; -encourages collaboration with local administrations for the development of journalistic materials; -increases the visibility of rural youth and the problems faced by rural communities; -creates inclusive participation opportunities for rural youth across Romania; -combats extremist, nationalist, homophobic, antisemitic, anti-refugee attitudes, or other types of hate speech against minority groups; -promotes eco-friendly attitudes and responsibility toward local communities, both through the developed materials and by applying green principles in project management; -promotes European values and responsible public dialogue, human rights, equal opportunities, social justice, respect for diversity, and more.