«Youth Identity and Participation» -- The aim of this research is to define the involvement of young people with Latvian, Russian and other ethnical background in the social and political activities of their school, local authorities, or government, in the context of one’s territorial, national and civic identity formation. The project is directed at the encouragement of the ethnic dialogue and understanding. The research done within the frames of the present project is a comparative study of the Latvian, Russian and other ethnic minorities’ youth identity formation as a sense of belonging as well as their involvement in different social activities.