Our long-term goal is to establish an international, participatory, and inclusive youth festival focusing on music, politics, and culture, specifically tailored to Karlsfeld and its unique spatial and socio-cultural context. The project aims to provide accessible cultural and political education; cultural, social, and political participation for young people; and to promote civic engagement and volunteering among young people as a concept that fosters democracy and strengthens rural areas. The project is specifically designed to improve the current precarious situation for young people and youth work in Karlsfeld and to bring different population groups into positive contact. For the surrounding region, it aims to inspire and equip young people for active civic participation, strengthen volunteering and social cohesion, and connect socially, culturally, and politically active individuals. To achieve this, the project pursues a long-term strategy of creating spaces for participation for young people, particularly public spaces, creative spaces, and spaces where they can take a stand and experience themselves as relevant and respected contributors to regional society. In public spaces, young people in particular are often unwelcome, even driven away. We want to counteract this: We want to make public space, as the political and spatial representation of local society, accessible and shapeable for young people, to make their issues and perspectives publicly visible and audible, and to allow them, all adults, and regional decision-makers to experience the social relevance and constructive power of young people. We understand the participatory design of a festival as an age-appropriate and highly attractive method for engaging young people, introducing them to more complex social and democratic participation processes through cultural interests, and achieving the goals described. The festival project is a year-round youth work project that can offer many different participation formats for diverse interests and target groups throughout the year. Experiencing the festival process is linked to reflection; socio-political aspects of cultural events are discussed, and the European context is addressed. Young people live simultaneously in real and digital spaces. The project makes the activity and participation of young people visible in both.