In Covid-19 Youth Theatre (CYT) the use of theatre for educational purposes is central ( Bildungstheatre). In this way the CYT project aims to contribute to the improvement of the level of key competences and skills of young people with fewer opportunities, in particular to the development of their creativity, expression through word and gesture, music and dance. The project partners work closely with organisations in the field of culture, theatre and music performance that wish to facilitate and support the CYT project. The CYT project also aims to promote participation in the hope of a democratic life in Europe, active citizenship, intercultural dialogue, social integration and solidarity. Here the project responds to the horizontal priority of common values, civic engagement and participation.The theatre is a good tool for raising awareness of these issues and making them accessible to a wider audience. The project addresses how young people have been and are confronted with the Covid-19 pandemic, how it affects their lives now and possibly in the future.The CYT proposal fits perfectly within the framework of the EU strategy to involve, connect and empower young people. It will give young people, especially those at risk of social exclusion, a voice and the opportunity to share it with their peers. Theatre can offer young people the opportunity to express themselves and is also a means that can inspire and activate them to take their own responsibility.Theatre offers young people the opportunity to create their own alternative images, to express their own challenges, desires, fears and problems. This is now particularly topical, where young people are also confronted with Covid-19 and the numerous restrictive measures: how do they experience this, how does it affect their lives, how do they try to hold their own within it. Young people are blamed for this often irresponsible behaviour. How do they experience this? And how do they think that the economic consequences will also affect their future? By incorporating this into a theatre performance, they can show the world, their peers, their parents, the community and society what they really are like. The CYT project aims to empower young adolescents by using theatre as a tool to explore social issues. The CYT project also promotes the social engagement of an audience of young adolescents in the participating countries. The CYT project aims at a more active social and political participation of young people in society. In concrete terms, this means that CYT give young people the feeling that they are actually being heard, encourage young people's own initiative and creativity.The first target group is young people (16 -25 years) in general, particularly those linked to the partner organisations and their networks.A second target group are youth workers: they are given methods to use theatre to activate, engage and empower young people. Third target group is the general public. The project should be carried out transnationally in order to compare and share the situation of people in European countries. In this way, CYT creates joint initiatives that stimulate cooperation, peer learning and exchange of experiences among young people at European level, while at the same time raising awareness of common values in a multicultural Europe.In this project we hope to create a situation where young people are able to start discussions among themselves and with a wider audience at local and regional level about how they try to cope with the Covid-19 restrictions. Using theatre is an instrument, both to raise young people's awareness of their situation and to help others understand it. Simultaneously we will offer youth workers methods to use theatre in activating, engaging and empowering young people. Working with theatre methods can be used in informal and non-formal learning processes and is a powerful and attractive instrument, that actives, motivates and challenges young people, even the hard to reach ones.The project realisation will be based on a transnational blended learning mobility, a kind of collective learning process between screenwriters, art directors, young actors and youth workers.During the project we will realise five intellectual outputs:1. handbook for scenario writing including 5 screenplays2. set of videos including the theatre performances and the discussions afterwards3. two discussion movies4. methodology working with theatre for youth work5. guidelines for a dialogue with the audienceAt the end of the project there will be 5 multiplier events, in each partner country one, to show the results to a wider audience and for further dissemination. After the completion of the project, the stage performances can also be performed at various locations at a later date. The videos and movies will find an audience on YouTube. The methodology developed can be used in youth work and within youth organisations.