The project emerged from research highlighting the need to revitalize rural regions by enhancing cultural dissemination, providing alternative opportunities for personal and professional development, and addressing challenges like depopulation and limited resources. By utilizing storytelling and art, the project aims to create engaging experiences and workshops that foster youth participation, inclusivity, and community engagement in rural areas. Building on the success of previous initiatives, such as youth exchanges focused on storytelling, the project endeavors to empower rural communities, cultivate cultural appreciation, and spark transformative change through creative expression and social engagement. We wish to equip 26 young youth workers from diverse backgrounds, also coming from rural areas. Who are working with arts or willing to incorporate creative tools in their work, with tools of the art of storytelling, non-violent communication (NVC), critical thinking community building, artivism and to explore the topic of geographical exclusion in order to empower them to utilise art as a powerful tool for strengthening rural and local communities and to combat stigmatisation of people from rural areas. Objectives: To get participants familiar with the concepts of community building, storytelling, narratives, artivism, social exclusion, non-violent communication, active participation and citizenship; To understand the importance of storytelling in the context of youth geographical stigmatisation; To map the realities in the participating countries on the existing prejudices towards people from rural areas; To empower youth workers working with arts to take an active role in addressing the mapped challenges that youths from rural areas face and to raise their voices by using creative tools; To develop skills of participants in using non-violent communication, artivism and peace education and critical thinking as tools for building local communities and construction of new narratives; To exchange good practices to address social exclusion and discrimination; To learn about the richness of rural cultures and using this knowledge to enhance their visibility; To raise the employability of the participants with tools of storytelling, public speaking and visual communication; To create space for participants to design at least 5 visual projects oriented on the topics of the rural culture and to plan at least 5 dissemination follow-up actions to implement in their local communities; To empower youth workers to undertake more activities outside large cities; To create a visual testimony of rural life in Solsonès and prepare a physical exhibition in Solsona.