“Democracy Starts with You!” will improve the civic participation of young people from minority and rural areas in the three countries: Georgia, Azerbijan and Armenia. In order to reach this goal, teachers will be trained on how to teach democracy to pupils with up-to-date methodologies of civic education. Afterward the teachers will be given the opportunity to implement the acquired knowledge in a 3-stage-simulation game for their pupils. Young politicians will be integrated into the simulation game as peer-group role models. With the help of Dutch experts, the three stage simulation will be made. The project is EU funded and will run for three years as of 2010.