With Guardians of Democracy: Resilient Minds in the Digital Age, we aim to equip young people with the skills, resilience, and confidence to face two urgent challenges of our time: the spread of disinformation and the mental health pressure of the digital age. Youth across Europe are voting, organizing, and shaping narratives online, but at the same time they are among the most vulnerable to manipulation, polarization, and digital fatigue. With EU and national elections ahead, and concerningly growing distrust in institutions, the need to strengthen youth as critical, resilient, and active guardians of democracy has never been more pressing. From a youth work perspective, our objectives are youth-centred, practical, and measurable: - Digital literacy & critical thinking: 40 young people (18–30) and 5 group leaders will practice fact-checking, source verification, and narrative mapping to recognize and resist disinformation. - Resilience & mindful attention: participants will learn simple mindfulness tools to reduce digital overload and decision fatigue, reflect on their digital habits, and design personal balance plans. - Participation in democratic life: each national team will co-create 1 Local Action Plan (school workshop, community talk, or online mini-campaign) within 3 months, reaching at least 250 peers across all partner countries. - Creative dissemination: participants will produce at least 40 youth-made outputs (short videos, blogs, posters, posts), designed for their peers, to reach over 10,000 people online. - Sustainability: each of the 5 partner organizations will onboard 1 new local ally (youth centre, school, or municipality) to replicate workshops and ensure long-term use of project materials. The project combines non-formal education methods such as debates, simulations, creative media, intercultural dialogue, mindfulness, and youth-led workshops, so that participants not only learn about democracy and digital resilience but actively practice them. In this way, the project empowers youth to take their place as engaged citizens, balanced digital users, and multipliers of democratic values in their own communities and across Europe.