Youth civic engagement and the role of education in developing active citizenship have become increasingly urgent topics of debate throughout the European Union. The growth of nationalist, radical and populist discourses and politics have revealed the need for a better understanding of what factors may encourage young people’s social participation and civic engagement. Democracies need active, informed and responsible young citizens who are willing and able to take responsibility for themselves and their communities and contribute to the political process. Education about active citizenship can help young people like us, to develop self-confidence and a sense of agency, as it gives us a voice: in the life of our schools, our communities and society at large and it enables us to make a positive contribution by developing the knowledge and experience needed to claim our rights and understand our responsibilities. It prepares us for the challenges and opportunities of adult and working life. Through youth work, the youth worker, can help encourage young people in their communities to become active citizenship through education and engagement. As Bryony, et al (2006), said, the best way to nurture active citizens, is by equipping citizens with the knowledge, skills and confidence they need to be active, engaged and motivated in society. We feel that, today’s generation of young people need help and support from politicians and decision makers, the education sector, civil society, and our families to develop into active citizens. Research by Ade (1995), shows that if young people are equipped with relevant knowledge and tools, it will enable them to place themselves as active citizens and important stakeholder in all-important decision-making processes and through that improve the situation in their communities. The idea for this exchange was born within the Maltese youth group. Carlos Zarb who is the vice-mayor of St Paul's local council, and who is responsible for the youth of the locality has been meeting with a number of youth. With us youths he has been discussing the issue of lack of active citizenship by the youth in the locality. It was us youth that showed an interest that we would like to learn more about this area. We felt that they would like to do more for our community but we felt that the only way we could contribute to our community is through politics. Most of us did not want to enter politics, as we used to see the local politics in Malta as a system that is leading to tribalism and is dividing the society with “US vs Them ''. Thus we did not want to be in politics and contribute to this. Other youth also thought that politics was only for the older generation and they thought that they are too young to bring a change. When we learned that politics was not the only way one can be an active citizen, we became eager to learn more and this is when we decided that we would like to make use of Erasmus+ to learn more on the topic of active citizenship with other European youth. Here we decided to write a project with other European peers and we approached young people from Greece and Estonia. As a group we agreed on our main learning goal, that is our main aim, will be that of increasing knowledge, skills and gain a better understanding about active citizenship and to get tools to empower our peers in our local communities to become active citizens and to promote active participation of our young peers in the decision-making process at a local level. The objectives were: - To develop our competencies (knowledge, practical skills, and attitudes) about active citizenship, advocacy and the decision-making processes on a local level; - To get empowered and encouraged to participate actively in shaping their communities - To gain new tools on how to be active citizens. - To learn different ways on how to be active citizens. Apart from the main aim and objectives stated above, the project helped us to improve other skills including our intercultural skills as we mixed around with youth from other countries. One has to keep in mind that for many of us, this was our first experience abroad and thus it was our first intercultural experience. The project helped us increase our language competence especially in the English language. This project helped us to embrace new methodologies of learning that is non-formal education and it encouraged us to take part in more similar opportunities.