Student Agora aims at enhancing dialogue between young people and public decision-makers through three main activities: educacional workshops, debating competition and similation game about comunal policy. It was created in response to the increasing need for young people to comment on the situation in their surroundings. Young people often dont know how to formulate their opinions and they don't know what their possibilities in public participation are. In Czech schools are so few opportunities to develop and cultivate dialog and students are not motivated to their own activity. They also are not taught critical thinking, finding their own opinion or cooperation. The project therefore offers not only the opportunity to find out how to get involved, but also offers the opportunity to experience forms of participation at the local level. The aim of the project is to mobilize young people, to provide them sufficient amount of informations about possibilities of participation and at the same time offer them the opportunity to meet with representatives of their towns in face-to-face dialogues. The project will bring together approximately 1200 school students from seven regions of Czech republic. In debating competition participated approximately 600 high school students and Simulation games were designed for 80 students. The project was divided into three parts. - In the first part there were workshops on the argumentation and presentation skills in more than 40 schools in 7 regions of Czech rep. This workshopgave to the participants the skills and knowledge to act like active citizens in their future live, to argue in cultivated and meaningfully way and to defend their opinions against the opponents and in front of the audience. - Second part of the project was debating competition, which provided to participants the opportunity to test their skills and knowledge acquired during the first part of the project. The first round took place at the regional level. In each region competed up to 8 high schools and best school of each round advanced to the national final. At the same time this schools won Simulation game in their town. Within the rounds participants met with important decision-makers at regional and national level and they will have the opportunity to discuss in dialog specific issues that are bothering them (like mayors, member of Chamber of Deputies, University teachers etc.). - The last activity in the project was a simulation game about municipal politics. The winners of the regional rounds of competition during the two-day meeting learned possibilities of self-involvement in community life. They learned how local government works and ways how to be active citizen in the local level. Participants gained knowledge about the functioning of municipalities and their own capacity to engage in public life. Part of the agenda was also meeting and joint work with representatives of local decision makers. As part of this cooperation, participants proposed possible solutions to specific problems in their city and in discussion with other participants and representatives of decision-makers advocated this solution. Participants in the project gained throughout the project knowledge and skills in debating and forming their own opinions. The best of them had the opportunity to work directly with representatives of their communities on possible solutions to specific problems in their cities. Participating students gained an advantage over their peers in the form of new ways of viewing problems and defending an opinion. The best ones then got comprehensive information about the functioning as active citizens at the local level and it is expected that this greatly increased their own activity in their cities.