There are millions of Europeans of Roma origin and "they face persistent discrimination and far-reaching social exclusion", reveals a report of the European Commission released on the 2nd July 2008 (http://ec.europa.eu/social/BlobServlet?docId=481&langId=en)The project "Youth Participation through Pictures" aims at encouraging young Roma people from Romania and the Slovak Republic to take part in the decision making process dealing with social exclusion by empowering them to use an unconventional public participation method: the PhotoVoice.For 6 months, 32 Roma teenagers from the two countries will apply the PhotoVoice method in order to show how social exclusion affects them in their respective communities and bring on the public agenda their concerns and the solutions they believe work best to tackle their problems.The PhotoVoice method is a tool of public participation that is suitable especially for groups who can't give public policy input through more conventional methods, such as public debates or round tables, due to the social conditions the groups are confronted with. The method consists of photo shooting sessions on the different aspects of a problem, group discussions around the pictures and an exhibition. The exhibition, organized at the end of the process, shows the general public and authorities how a group affected by a public policy problem feels about that problem and the solutions the group considers would work best to solve it.