Young people who live in rural areas help to shape their social environment through a variety of activities, but do not always extend this social engagement to political participation. The project analyzes the reasons for this discrepancy. The focus is on rural regions and living environments in Bavaria, Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein. The team combines political science, ethnological and socio-psychological research approaches with the perspectives of civil society organizations at European, national and regional level. In order to investigate forms of local involvement and the political attitudes, expectations and needs of young people, the project team uses the interdisciplinary approach of supra-regional politography that it has developed itself. Building on this, the researchers look at the political offerings, the embedding of democratic participation in everyday cultural practices and the emotional matrix of the experience of democracy from their respective disciplinary perspectives and classify this with the help of civil society partners and young people in the regions. Based on the research findings, the team conducts Democracy Labs and workshops as well as forums for young people's political ideas and develops training courses for employees of civil society organizations and politicians.