The project "Ruract" is a Bilateral Youth exchange which will take placein Mandas, Sardinia, from 21 to 26 May 2016 and will involve 26 Italian and Spanish participants (+ 4 group leader and two accompanying persons) coming from areas with common problems.The project RURACT intends to achieve the following overall and specific:GENERAL OBJECTIVESGoal 1: creation of an area of exchange for young people with similar problems and opportunities;Objective 2: to encourage the sense of initiative and entrepreneurship of young peopleObjective 3: decrasing depopulation in rural areas:Objective 4: promoting intercultural dialogue;Objective 5: encouraging active European citizenship of young peopleSPECIFIC OBJECTIVES:OS1: to increase the awareness of young Italians and Spaniards people on the resources available in rural areas where they live;OS2: to decrease the rate of youth unemployment in rural areas of Sardinia and Extremadura;OS3: to decrease the rate of depopulation in rural areas of Sardinia and Extremadura;OS4: to promote cultural, natural and gastronomic resources of Sardinia and Extremadura. for developing tourismThe project Ruract will take place in the territory of Sarcidano, a rural area in the province of Cagliari, in the inland areas of the Sardinia. This territory presents a really low density, and it is suffering a process of depopulation and a progressively ageing of its population.Despite that, the territory owns the resources to develop a local economy based on high quality agroalimentary products and cultural, naturalistic and sport tourism. The informal group "Giovani del Sarcidano" created the project Ruract with the aim to build a context of formation and to incentivate young initiative, through an intercultural exchange with a group of young people from Extremadura (Spain). The project aims to increase the awareness of participants about the numerous resources and possibilities of development of european rural territories, in order to reinforce the capacity to elaborate new proposals and to launch a dialogue with the main local stakeholders. The project Ruract will increase the analysis and organization capabilities of the participants, it will offer them new incentives and entrepreneurial ideas to adopt in their territories and, at last, it will guarantee the establishment of a network of international relations between the participants and the local stakeholders of both countries, to put down the bases for future iniciatives in the rural development field.