EUROPE. AUSTRIA. WE. HERE. supported the Structured Dialogue between young people and policy makers in Austria. The Austrian National Youth Council, the legal representative body of all children and young people in Austria, acted as the coordinating organisation. We implemented this project together with a broad alliance of partner organisations. Our vision is that youth participation becomes indispensable in policy-making. Opinions, perspectives and needs of young people should be given an essential and transparent role in the context of societal developments - locally, regionally , nationally and internationally. For our concrete structured dialogue on empowering young people, we first obtained opinions of young people on the topic at hand through different approaches. For doing this, we trained 63 youth workers from all over Austria to become Structured Dialogue-multipliers. They then conducted consultation rounds, "Local Dialogues" within their youth work sphere (eg at the youth center, youth organisation or youth information center). By doing so, we involved over 400 young people directly in the consultation. For the first time in Austria we discussed the outcomes of the consultation, together with the conclusions of the EU-Youth Conference, in two regional youth conferences in Austria. In the course of these youth conferences 160 participants (young people, multipliers and policy makers) worked together on joint reccommendations and project ideas. Finally, the project results were summarised and form the basis for a follow-up plan. We documented effects of the structured dialogue and made them publically available. By doing this, we made political processes more accessible for young people - even across national borders. Politicians got an insight into the situation and living conditions of the young people involved. Through cross-sectoral collaboration know-how could be exchanged, possible synergy effects became visible and new collaborations arose. Youth work (in all its diversity) could be strengthened in its role as an important partner of youth policy. By influencing youth-related decision-making processes we created a broader discussion which hence led to better solutions. Thus, the Structured Dialogue causes positive changes that take an effect on the long run.