In the summer of 2008, over twenty-five students from Europe and the US gathered in Vukovar to learn about which methods of civil activism can be deployed in order to overcome the difficulties of the everyday life in a town which such troubling history as Vukovar's. This was the first time we changed the location of our summer programe from Zagreb to eastern Slavonia, seeing the small-town setting as ideal for exercising the practical side of the program, such as getting in touch with the local NGOs, interviewing representatives of local government or any relevant stakeholders, at the same time learning about the relevance of such themes as dealing with the past, which is the only way for divided socities to make a significant democratic and economic progress. Last year's students came up with five small-scale projects, at the end of the training the best project got implemented in colaboration with the local youth. Seeing offensive, ethnically dividing graffiti as something that reminds of violence and war burdened past, the students decided this was something they want to combat, sending a message that such signs of ofencive behavior is something that bothers Vukovar's citizens.