The “Erasmus+ en Campagne” project aimed to enhance the active participation of young people from rural areas in European life by giving them the means to design and lead a large-scale collective initiative. The main goal was to highlight the realities, needs, and aspirations of rural youth, while allowing them to explore and take ownership of the opportunities for mobility, engagement, and dialogue offered by European programmes. Starting in September 2024, a group of around fifteen young people aged 16 to 25, all from the rural area of Dinan, worked over nine months to design a European forum entitled “Youth, European Mobility and Rurality”, held on 16 and 17 May 2025 in Lanvallay. This major event aimed to bring together young people, local elected representatives, associations, youth professionals, and European partners to discuss and co-create solutions to strengthen mobility, openness, and inclusion for young people in rural territories. Operational objectives To achieve these goals, the project was built around several concrete objectives: Train and support young people in project management, consultation, and European cooperation. Encourage meetings and dialogue between young people, decision-makers, and youth professionals. Create and strengthen networks between local, national, and European stakeholders working on rural youth and mobility. Showcase testimonies and experiences from young people involved in or benefiting from European mobility projects. Promote the core values of the European Union, fostering a shared sense of European citizenship. A participatory and inclusive process Young people were at the heart of every stage of the project: designing the programme, identifying speakers, managing logistics and communication, and running the event. They were supported by around twenty local organisations (associations, local authorities, mobility operators, and youth information structures) that provided expertise and operational support. Each young participant took responsibility for a specific area—programme design, partnerships, logistics, or communications—encouraging shared responsibility and practical learning. The process was developed in close collaboration with the French Erasmus+ Agency, whose national priority focuses on rural youth. The young participants invited the Agency to attend and contribute to both days of the forum, an invitation that was accepted positively, reinforcing the project’s legitimacy, visibility, and institutional recognition at the national level. The project also included a strong European dimension, with ten European partner organisations, each represented by a delegation of three people: a young person, a youth worker, and an elected representative. This mix of profiles fostered balanced intercultural dialogue and exchange of good practices on rural youth work across Europe. A structured and dynamic implementation The forum held on 16–17 May was structured around several complementary spaces: A “stands area”, open continuously, featuring organisations providing information, mobility opportunities, and examples of European projects; A “programme area”, with 40-minute interactive sessions (conferences, roundtables, speed-dating sessions, and human libraries); A convivial area with a café, catering, and exhibitions to encourage informal and intercultural exchange. The two-day programme was designed to engage different target groups: Friday focused on local authorities, teachers, students, and youth professionals, with political and institutional debates; Saturday targeted young people, families, and parents, with mobility testimonies, peer exchanges, and networking sessions between local and European organisations. This structure ensured broad, inclusive, and intergenerational participation, fully aligned with the core priorities of the Erasmus+ programme: inclusion, democratic participation, diversity, and European openness.