Digital youth participation empowers young people to become active citizens from local to European level. However, the positive effects only unfold when the participation process is run professionally – just to use digital tools is not enough to inspire young, administrations and youth organizations to collaborate. Unfortunately, potential initiators often lack experience, personnel and financial resources needed to plan and conduct a successful e-participation project. This is a reason why first-time pilot projects may fail due to the many unknown challenges and efforts, leading to frustration among participants. The Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership project “DIGY - Digital youth participation made easy” aims to tackle this problem by delivering qualification and capacity building for initiators of digital youth participation projects. The materials designed will be integrated into the OPIN platform, a professional online tool-box for digital youth participation that is already available in 10 European languages. Thus, the European-wide infrastructure for digital youth participation is strengthened and enriched by modules to increase the know-how on how to run a successful digital youth participation project. This is realized in various ways: - by establishing a vivid community of project initiators on OPIN: a space for peer-to-peer knowledge exchange, collaboration and advice (“Opin Community and Forum”). - by designing high-quality online learning materials and trainings, consisting of text-based resources as well as audio and video materials (“e-Learning Materials and Section”). The materials will support initiators in the project planning and implementation phase of their project.- by creating a “Best Practice Living Lab” which will develop a Best Practice example section on OPIN,- as well as a “Re-design of the Opin Platform”, by optimizing the navigation and user interface on the platform and improving the administrator workflow for setting-up and configuring a new project. The Section for Best Practice examples and e-learning materials will be created and the platform will be optimized for the display of various formats, such as audio- and video files.Through all these activities, DIGY will in the long term contribute to a lively landscape of digital youth participation in Europe. With OPIN, a professional yet cost-free and easy-to-use tool is available and well-known in the community. Youth worker benefit from a new qualification and professional development, the number of fairly executed participation projects increases and by this, the inherent potential of youth participation unfolds in all European countries. Young people who participate in the projects will experience an increase of communication skills, media literacy and democratic competencies. The positive interaction with decision-makers leads to a growth of trust in democratic processes and institutions which in turn encourages active citizenship and public engagement. The result has a stabilizing and activating effect on the political system. The platform will be open to be used for free by any person or institution during the duration of the project and after the project termination.The results of the project will be developed by a consortium of 7 partners from all over Europe, who bring in valuable country-specific knowledge and experiences which will be fed-in to the creation of the IOs. Besides experts on participation like nexus, the coordinator, who is since 20 years giving consultancy on participation and doing scientific research in the field and Liquid Democracy, the technical provider and one of the first players in digital youth participation in Europe, the consortium includes 4 youth organizations from Macedonia, Georgia, Slovenia and Malta, who will pilot the DIGY results. Additionally with CREATIVITAS an Erasmus+-proven dissemination partner is on board to make sure that the project results are reaching youth organizations all over Europe.