"Local Democracy in a Changing World" is a seminar hosted by Generation Europa in Vienna from 21st until 27th of April 2013. Its topic is youth empowerment by sharing and learning about experiences and tools in regard to direct participatory possibilities for young people in their respective community and elsewhere. The seminar aims at enabling and supporting youth workers and youth leaders to exchange their view on and learn new tools that enable youth to realize own ideas. The seminar will offer the acquisition of new tools - especially with an in depth analysis - of the world wide web and its possibilities to empower young people and to understand the new qualities of modern youth work. The selected participants will be expected to exchange knowledge about social media tools, learn about social media tools and acquire new tools of social media to be able to multiply the newly acquired within their organization and young people in general. The seminar will foster sustainable development by promoting new tools of youth work that enable young people to take responsibility within their community by being able to communicate and realize their own ideas, creativity and projects. Countries included in this project will be 33 participants from 15 different countries: Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Egypt, France, Georgia, Germany, Italy, Lebanon, Moldova, Palestine, Poland, Portugal, Russia and United Kingdom.