With the project "From Talking to Action - Making Climate and Environmental Protection Experienceable in Different European Dimensions" we want to ensure, that young people from the five participating partner countries Germany, Finland, Poland, Austria and Lithuania are motivated and enabled to get involved in climate and environmental protection and to stand up for democracy. This should be practiced in practical action, so that the participants not only expand their knowledge but also acquire action competence. "From Talking to Action" means, that we work in an action-oriented manner in the spirit of non-formal education and want to enable the participating young people to learn in practical experience. To experience this, we have selected the special features of four regions of the partner countries as European experience spaces, which offer different dimensions of European living and learning environments in climate and environmental protection. With the Baltic Sea and life on historic sailing ships, Germany offers the experience of the sea with its special ecological conditions. Austria offers a 14th century castle in the Alps and the experience of climate and environmental conditions in the mountains. Lithuania offers a typical Baltic small town, which will be the country's youth capital in 2025. Finland offers the experience of the subarctic region, its sensitivity to the climate and the special living conditions of one of the last indigenous populations, the Sami. At our last digital meeting to discuss the Erasmus application two weeks ago, our team of project coordinators from the five countries decided at short notice to include the topic of democracy education. Shocked by the election results in East Germany and the rise of right-wing populist parties, not only in Germany but in many European countries, it is an urgent task for youth work to set an example for democracy. While we are making the final corrections to the text of the application, the news about the National Council elections in Austria is coming across the ticker; the FPÖ has become the strongest party with a xenophobic and populist election campaign. Poland and Finland have had similar experiences in recent years. The five partner organizations see themselves challenged to motivate young people to get involved in the political discourse and stand up against right-wing populism. For example, we are planning two thematic units for each activity, in which we will deal with democracy education and hold discussions with leading politicians. This will also be documented digitally. Due to the short notice of the choice of topic, the topic has not yet been fully worked out, but this also offers a good opportunity to involve the participants in the planning. All participating organizations are youth organizations in their countries and have extensive experience in youth work, volunteer engagement and the participation of children and young people. They all have committees, in which young people represent their own interests and make responsible decisions. All party organizations are involved in the topic of climate and environmental protection and are very interested in exchanging this with other partner countries at the European level and thus also qualifying their own youth work. In 2023, with great success, we have already carried out an Erasmus project with three activities and 134 participants with the partner countries Germany, Austria, Poland and Finland. Under the theme of "youth empowerment for climate and environmental protection", the young people worked intensively on issues relating to climate and environmental protection and developed new ideas for youth work. We want to build on the experiences and develop the topic further. This gave rise to the participants' desire to continue and develop the project further. The international exchange of experience in the field of youth work was rated particularly positively, as many participants are active in youth work themselves. In the current project, we want to take up this opportunity and network the activities with one another. Interested young people can take part in various activities, and the activities are digitally networked with one another. Digital communication should enable all participants and external interested parties to follow the activity (homepage, Instagram logbook, podcasts, short videos). From a youth work perspective, it is important to strengthen the participation and empowerment of the participants. The participants should be significantly involved in the preparation and implementation.