The future of Europe: that YOU are! That's the motto of the youth-exchange 2014, a come-together of 48 young people from Italy and Germany. The actual financial crisis has affected the municipality of Nocera Umbra in Umbria (region in the middle of Italy), but also the whole region. Already since the hard earthquake in 1997 different youth-camps and internati.onal youth-exchanges have setted impulses and more public attention. In this case, it came out, that there is a lack of youth-work-structures. Especially these structures would be important for giving young people assistance in different situations (for example youth-unemployment, looking for perspectives, to be domiciled in the country/region/town ...). That's why in this youth-programme we want to make a analysis of the actuell youth-work: What's going on well in Italy? And what in Germany? How we can learn from another? And how to develop news ways/ideas for a common european youth-work? The young people, aged between 15 and 22 years, are as well participants of youth-work as leader in different fields of youth-work. They are living in rural regions, with different social- and school-backrounds. In this project the participants come to know, that they -as young persons- are very important for the coming european questions, that they could be 'experts' for special parts, for example 'Youth-work', and that they have a claim, to take them, their ideas, seriously and to be involved in decisions. Within different projekt-activities they will participate and practise in fields of youth-work: open acitivities for children and youth (holiday-programmes, informal meeting-points), project of the parish (holiday-camps, group-meetings), the youth-work in sports-clubs/societies, culture-, environment- and media-groups (included civic-media). The results will be reported in foto-, film- and broadcast-collages. In this way it will be possible to stimulate discussions and to transport ideas to the youth-politic, to the administration and public authorities. Together with the young people we want to find out perspectives for a future-oriented youth work. Thereby participation will become reality and an important basic component for a real european citizenship.