The youth exchange “Media for Democratic Participation” will bring together 56 young people from 8 countries of the European Union and South East Europe to discuss about the role of media in our societies and how media can increase youth participation. Together England has already experience with this topic and developed methodology in this field. We have identified the need to work on this topic in South East Europe with our partners from this region and decided to organise a youth exchange in Bitola, Macedonia with our partner Together Macedonia. Young people from the United Kingdom, the Czech Republic, Spain, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Albania, Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina will come to Bitola for 8 days to reflect about the role of media and become journalists themselves for a couple of days. Media play a very important role in today’s world. They are prerequisites of democracy, but at the same time they influence people very much and especially young people are often confused by different messages coming across from media. We believe it is very important for young people to understand how media work, be able to work with information and process them and think critically about the information they get. This youth exchange will give young people from the EU and SEE an opportunity to become young journalists and create newspapers, short videos and journalism photos. They will work in international groups, have to divide the tasks, learn how to use new tools, make interviews with local people and create together a final product. At the same time, media will be used as a tool to make young people express their opinions. The main topics will be European citizenship and challenges that young people face (e.g. youth unemployment, social exclusion and marginalisation, etc.) but young people will be free to propose topics which are important for them. These media tools will enable young people to express their opinions on these abstract topics in a creative way which is much easier for them.The results of the project will be after published on a website which will be disseminated widely among other youth organisations, young people and local communities in the partner countries. These products will be a great tool to enhance the visibility of the Youth in Action programme as well.