This research focuses on youths’ terms, possibilities and knowledge for active democratic citizenship. In Lindberg & Persson’s (2013) report on Youths’ relationship to democracy a need for further research in the eld emerges. The report calls for more qualitative studies as a complement to various national and international longitudinal, quantitative studies. The aim of the present study is to fill this gap in the field through qualitative interview data collected during spring 2014. The respondents are from the region of Gävleborg in Sweden and from Östrobothnia in Finland. One of the purposes of this study is also to discern similarities and differences in the youths’ views on active democratic citizenship in the two Nordic neighbouring countries Sweden and Finland. The research group presents the first preliminary results at the conference in Lund.