"<< Objectives >>The final goal of our project is to provide a complex knowledge of democracy and socio-economic issues, for Hungarian young people, which will help them to better understand the foundations of participatory democracy, such as solidarity-based civic life, community thinking, and the possibility of a community budget. , deliberative decision-making or digital democracy. Through this knowledge, participants will create their own projects to increase the activity of their own community. We want participants to pass on their own knowledge to others later in an informal way. They can create educational, participatory, artistic, or other programs that demonstrate an alternative model of democracy based on knowledge and participation that, in the long run, can result in a higher quality, more people-orientated democratic culture.Hungarian democratic culture is highly dependent on the elitist, limitedly democratic political socialization of recent decades and centuries. Fear of politics and alienation has become natural for the younger generations, young people today are less likely to have a say in public life, and domestic research shows that they are very divided, dissatisfied and politically conformist. We believe there are three main reasons for this1, the bad patterns of socialization that lead youth at home, at school, or in their own community,2, the presumed lack of knowledge that we believe is needed to have a say in politics, and the polarized information space that stifles dialogue,3, and the resulting image of elitist democracy that repels young people. The latter problem is particularly important in the 21st century. century, as our daily lives and social media also provide the opportunity for continuous speech and continuous participation - or the illusion of it - so the system, which is basically based on passivity, is not attractive to them.Young people need experiences that can change all three issues. We want to organize a program for young people that1, can create a socialization environment that encourages them to learn and cultivate politics,2, gives them relevant theoretical and practical knowledge that gives them confidence in cultivating politics. The primary goal is not to increase the knowledge transferred in the frontal way, but to help them use their own knowledge in politics. It is important for knowledge to be multifaceted, to illuminate problems from multiple perspectives, but to move away from extreme polarization and go back to the basic values of the Enlightenment, rational dialogue, the groundwork of humanism, reason and science that can advance humanity,3, give young people a bottom-up image of democracy based on digitalisation and everyday activism, which is both a means to an end and a goal worth working at ever-increasing levels. Although we have infinite amounts of raw data, we have fewer and fewer tools to transform the fragmented information space into a coherent worldview. Meanwhile, in our age, the consensus from the Enlightenment is broken that we are trying to talk about public affairs in a rational dialogue, separating facts and values. Our answer to the problem outlined above is to present scientific knowledge and the position of researchers and scientists of our time on various issues to the general public, and to give space for dialogue based on rational debate. Although science is not free from prejudice, and scientific knowledge always carries a kind of contingency - so far, the best models of the world have been created by humanity in this way. We hope that the promotion of science and the transfer of scientific knowledge will help us orient ourselves in the world, give people a sense of control on a personal level, increase the opportunity for rational dialogue, and steer us towards more responsible collective and individual decisions.The XXI. In the 21st century, our goal in the sea of disinformation is to provide young people with the confidence and knowledge to stand up for democracy in word and deed in the long term. The phenomenon of fake news can exacerbate the democratic deficit problems outlined above, destabilize people in their own right, and undermine faith in democracy.In the fight against disinformation, it is not the transfer of specific knowledge that is most important, but the sharing of a vision and information processing methodology that allows them to process the news themselves later and distinguish fake news from actual news.<< Implementation >>1, The open university will take place in Szeged between July 24-30, 2023. During the open university, the 70 participants would come from 7 different cities and thus form 7 groups that will be relevant for future project tasks.During the open university, there will be lectures during the day, roundtable workshops, cultural-professional programs in the late afternoon / evening that directly and indirectly convey the values of the program, as well as the knowledge needed for the program, which they can use later in their project.2, The groups will create an independent, local project in line with the project objectives, using the knowledge gained at the university. The exact purpose and means are determined by the groups at the open university. We help the groups with a workshop day at the beginning of their project, where we discuss all the specific problems, clarify the necessary tasks, and look at their internal operation.3. Finally, within the framework of a closing day, we will hold a workshop day in Aurora, part of the Association, in Budapest, where the participating groups can share their experiences, difficulties and successes, as well as their experiences and impressions of the project on a larger scale. We are also curious to see if they plan to maintain some of each project.The participating young people will be recruited from 7 different Hungarian cities. In addition to our partners, our ""Free Spaces"" program will help us to do this, in the framework of which we are already present in several Hungarian cities and we can provide quality programs and cultural space for progressively thinking Hungarian young people. We will recruit 10-10 people from each city so that the groups are equal in subsequent project assignments.We want to recruit young people between the ages of 18 and 30 who want to be politically active, but do not find a place in local activism or democracy, they do not believe in the effectiveness of the tools they currently have in their hands. We want to work with young people who want to do it for their own, local or national community, and promoting a European identity is also important to them. It will be especially important in the program to be able to work with people who want to be not only passive participants but also active implementers of projects.Applicants from groups on the periphery of society, such as participants from ethnic or sexual minorities, are also specifically welcome.During the program, we will strive for gender equality, which is why we want to involve an equal number of women and men from all cities, and if possible, we also welcome non-binary-minded young people to the project.Beyond these, we do not want to impose any other expectations on applicants. Applicants, who will be required to submit a CV and a letter of motivation, will be selected by the local partners / aid organizations on the basis of the above criteria. In the motivation letter, we primarily look at how active, helpful participants they would be, say, partners in the program, rather than just passive participants in it, and whether they would like to address the topic in the longer term. In the selection process, we would like to provide additional assistance to the social strata on the periphery, in writing the CV and cover letter, and they will receive additional support from us, if necessary, to enable them to participate in the program.It will be extremely difficult for groups on the periphery to gather applicants, which is why we want to launch an extra, local campaign for these layers so that they can apply and represent themselves in the program with as much courage as possible.<< Results >>During the program, we want to give participants a complex picture of the world, how participatory democracy works, the foundations of civic activism, critical thinking, and the problems caused and acted upon by disinformation.During the open university, we want to be able to forge a community that we will be able to sustain even after the program, thereby networking the system. We want to keep in touch with the participants in the long run, to involve them in other projects, hoping that they will also implement their own project in the future, in which we can also take part on a voluntary basis.We would like to see project entrants in our program who can stay alive after the project and who move more local people, thus increasing the reach of our program. we want these programs to be an integral part of our erasmu project and, last but not least, for participants to learn the basics of basic democratic thinking, participatory democracy, digital tools, critical thinking, the fight against fake news and community organization, they experience its importance and values ​​on their own skin.At EU level, we believe that the project has indirect significance. We want to create a campaign to promote the Erasmus project and help young people get into their own Erasmus program, even with a project developed under our Erasmus. In the future, if the project is successful, we would also announce it to international participants.- It can also have a long-term effect on the image of democracy in Hungary. In Hungary, the acceptance and extent of democracy is below the EU average, and the democracy indices are showing a worse picture of the country. Through bottom-up projects, the program aims to contribute to the strengthening of democracy in Hungary and, in Europe, in the creation of a new democratic culture.- Finally, we want to expand the program in the future, so that the next step can be taken at EU level, based on international cooperation.we want to make the Marom Association and the Free Spaces, the organizations involved in it, visible in their country and to connect them with the dissemination of democratic ideas. Our goal is to be able to do bigger projects on similar topics in the future, for which national recognition and recognition, which crosses regions and subcultures, will be essential. In addition, the project would be a great help to our members, during which they can develop their administrative, presentation and facilitation skills."