With The Youth Explores the EU Eastern Enlargement, we wanted to make EU enlargement understandable, personal and participatory for young people from both EU Member States and countries directly affected by the enlargement process. The project was created by European Youth International together with Umbrella/JEF Georgia, JEF Spain and Beyond Barriers/JEF Albania. The core idea was that young people should not only learn about enlargement as an institutional process, but should meet peers, decision-makers and civil society actors from different European contexts and discuss what enlargement means for democracy, rule of law, human rights, youth participation and Europe’s future. The main objectives were to increase young people’s knowledge of EU Eastern Enlargement, especially in relation to Georgia, Albania, the Western Balkans and the Eastern Partnership; to strengthen active citizenship and democratic participation among young people; to create dialogue between young people and decision-makers; to address misinformation and media literacy in relation to enlargement; and to build lasting cooperation between youth organisations from Denmark, Spain, Georgia and Albania. We also aimed to make participants more aware of shared European values such as democracy, equality, freedom, the rule of law, human dignity and non-discrimination, and to show that enlargement is not only a technical negotiation process but also a social, cultural and generational process. The project was designed to respond to clear needs among young people. Many participants from EU Member States had limited first-hand knowledge of candidate countries and the Eastern Partnership. Many participants from Georgia and Albania wanted better opportunities to discuss European integration with peers from the EU, and to be seen as active contributors rather than passive recipients of decisions. Across the partnership, we wanted to create a space where participants could critically discuss the benefits, difficulties and obligations of enlargement, including reforms, public trust, civic engagement, misinformation, regional cooperation and the role of youth in shaping the process.