More and more young people leave rural areas in Europe because of the lack of cultural activities, they do not see any chance for building a future or, as in some regions, more and more people with xenophobic, racist and sexist world views settle. This also leads to less young people moving to rural areas to build a future.This project wants to challenge this tendency by showing that solidary ways of living, based on community and democratic and non-discriminatory practices, are possible and needed in rural areas.The project has two main focuses in order to achieve this.On one hand the exchange between the three involved groups of young people about their experiences, hopes, wishes and fears concerning living in rural areas. During the project the groups will also work on three concrete local goals of the three partners.On the other hand the groups will prepare vents for the public, where young people living in rural areas, or who wish to, can acquire application-oriented knowledge how to build or secure an existence in rural areas.All project activities are conducted on a gendersensitive basis that challenges racism in order to avoid exclusions from activities. This is why all transnational project meetings will be using simultaneous interpretation to enable all group members to participate.The 25 participants are young people organized in three informal groups in Germany, Austria and France. Many of the group members have experience in youth work and a common denominator between all are past activities within the transnational network of "Reclaim the Fields".Most of the participants are with Europeans with an academic background, but the french group is also made up of refugees. That is why the exchange between the groups will also center on the struggles of refugees in rural areas, what challenges they face, and how and if rural areas can hold a perspective for them.This issue is highly acute, sadly enough mainly because of a shift to the right in European society, hostility and racist discrimination against Refugees as far as open violence.The centerpiece of the project activities are four transnational meetings. These meetings serve to facilitate and exchange between the participants about their local situations, the content and methodology of public events and a shared reflection and evaluation of project activities.9 public events will be carried out in which knowledge is to be shared with young people who live, or want to live in rural areas. Possible topics are, Solidary Economy, Community Supported Agriculture (CSA), living in communities, the concept of "Vermögenspool", establishing a seminarhouse, starting an agricultural business, inheritance of farms and economic perspectives for living in communities.The methodologies used are based in the experience of the participants. So mainly participatory methods from youth work will be used, as well as methods from the "Theater of the Oppresed" by Augusto Boal, nonviolent communication by Marshall Rosenberg and elements of learnscapes.Expected results are, that the three groups will improved each others skills and expertise, that the local goals of each group have been met and that the intended knowledge has been passed on to young people in application-oriented workshops/events.Through this exchange it is expected that more young people will see a perspective of how they can make a living for themsleves in rural areas and they perceive themselves as capable of shaping this life and thus do it. Which will result in more young people staying or moving to rural areas.Guidelines for founding an association will be created that are linked to the respective national contexts and laws as well as collection of methods illustrated by practical examples from the carried out workshops/events.Long-term effects of the project are a strengthening of the exchange between young people in Europe, a more lively and democratic feeling in rural areas which will attract young people to stay, or move, there in order to rejuvenate these areas, as well a dialogue across language and cultural barriers to create a more peaceful and tolerant way of living together.