According to the objective of a four-year-long project, completed with the participation of researchers from 14 countries, the research concept - "how young people social's participation is shaped by the shadows of totalitarianism and populism in Europe" - did not focus of national political cultures and heritages based on different classifications but on pan-European approach.Participation of young people has been thus examined in a historical and cultural concept with the learning of meanings attributed to related concepts.