CONTEXT AND BACKGROUNDWhichever indicator of civic engagement we use (from abstention rates to involvement in clubs and associations we notice a reluctance of youngster to participate (see Eurobarometer 375, Idea 2014, OECD 2014). A reluctance that seems to be accentuated by more difficult economic conditions and lower education levels. Furthermore, because we find more of these young people in the more disadvantaged segments of society (eg. amongst NEETS) indirectly they will be more likely to disengage, to stay out. Our exploratory interviews showed, that for many this ‘staying out’ is a consequence of a perception of being discriminated, of being neglected by those in power. At the same time our exploratory interviews showed that young people (whether or not living in difficult situations) are usually quite ready to identify issues they are concerned about, however they do not always seek a deeper understanding of the issues and can remain with fairly superficial explanations. A sense of disappointment often prevents further discussion and tackling of these problems. We offer to develop a set of methodologies based on peer learning, new technologies and artivist practices.PARTICIPATING PEOPLE AND ORGANISATIONS. The four partners to the Artivism project represent different geographic areas of Europe, different types of institutions (2 unveristies Nottingham Trent University (UK) and Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain) and 2 NGOs: Artemisszio Foundation (Budapest) élan interculturel (Paris). We represent different disciplines (journalism, art therapy, culture, intercultural education) and share the joint commitment to show that Arts can create a dialogical democratic space for bridging the divisions of society into those who can take part and those who don't, it can overcome these differences and the mistrust and create communities of creative dialogue. In the four cities we worked with very diverse groups of young people, addressing subject matters relevant in the specific context chosen by the participants. We also involved youth workers, educators, and social workers, interested in learning new methodologies as well as artists and activists, interested in social problems affecting the young people, wishing to engage with young people's non formal education. MAIN ACTIVITIES AND RESULTS1. We started our work by exploring and testing strategies to identify the subjects that matter for young people: issues that make them angry or that they wish to change. With the participation of 68 youth we have carried out urban walks (tested in Nottingham) Urban walks with interviews and photographs collected digitally connected with ideas marathon (tested in Madrid) adopting the Abecadarium to explore ideas concerning a social context (tested in Paris) City Games (tested in Budapest). 2. We created the “artivism archive” with more than 50 selected artivist practices, of which 50 have been translated to all languages, and made the archive accessible at artivism.online3. Development of “Initiation to artivism” workshops involving young people and artists to learn about artivist approaches. In our four cities we have included 130 young people and 23 artists in our 38 workshops. We have altogether created initiation workshops with 19 different art forms (poster, collage, photography, theatre, serigraphy, business card, sculpture, circus, vogue, slam, afro-consciousness, collaborative cinema, architecture etc. please see full list of workshops in annex)Young people could engage easily in the workshops which were organized in a practical easy access way. They perceived the collaboration with the artists as valorizing and could get initiated to basic techniques. 4. Artivist campaigns: We created a range of artivism campaigns where youth and artists collaborated together to raise awareness and inspire reflection and change about the issues they have identified for local communities, stakeholders and a wider audience.In total we ran 12 campaign events (collaborative film screening, interactive parcours, urban walks, asphalt fresco, exhibition in public space, festival etc ) created 11 different campaign products involving about 130 young people. 5. Finally, we packaged all the pedagogical materials and experiences into a training for youth workers that we tested also in an international context in a 5 days training in Budapest. 6. We have collected and shared all our experiences and products on artivism.online, created Open Education Resources and an Artivist manual to ensure the long term exploitation, which is now also available on artivism.online.In accompaniment of the intellectual outputs we have carried out dissemination activities all through the project, reaching more than 600.000 people in great part thanks to the Hungarian artivist team which who managed to attract great attention with their campaigns preceeding the 2018 parliamentary elections.