Yplan – Young Planners Initiative addresses both the need for reclaiming Bucharest’s public spaces and the need for youth civic involvement and urban education. With this in mind, a team of Romanian and Swiss urban planners and architects decided to teach and empower high school students, equipping them with knowledge and tools for public space interventions. The team held short presentations, workshops and debates in 9 high schools in Bucharest. Following the workshops, a group of high school students, together with several students joined the Yplan project. The group was involved in a series of workshops and activities (for example urban walks) targeting the redesign of 8 abandoned public spaces. The aim of these advanced workshops was to help the high school students understand and replicate the process of reviving an abandoned public space.