Hero project partnership is built on the same need, which is to enhance the competences of youth leaders and youth workers in the field of human rights. Youth work is a key area for young people to be themselves in this picture, and youth workers’ education and training is crucial in securing the quality of this space. Human rights education is relevant in youth worker’s education and training because it is about teaching and learning how to live together in dignity and with respect for one another. Therefore, it is crucial that as youth workers are getting educated or trained about, for and through human rights education, they should be the ones at the centre, in the first place. By its nature, youth work as a social practice is influenced thoroughly by the vertical and horizontal dimensions of human rights. The main objective of the HERO project is to raise awareness of youth leaders and youth workers about the importance of human rights and human rights issues in youth work. This project will contribute to the practice and application of human rights approaches in youth worker’s everyday practice. The project will empower the promotion and protection of human rights within the youth work framework. In other words, the main objectives of the “HERO” training course are to: • Raise awareness of human rights issues in youth work and contribute to their protection. • Exchange good practices in human rights-based youth work and solving human rights issues within youth work framework. • Develop the knowledge, skills, and abilities of youth leaders and youth workers necessary to promote the learning of and learning for human rights. By achieving these objectives, youth workers and youth leaders will have knowledge, skills and attitudes needed to include young people in activities that raise awareness of the importance of human rights and to actively promote human rights amongst other young people, but also they will raise awareness about human rights-based youth work. The most important skills that will be enhanced by this project are critical deliberation about their everyday practice and how the human rights framework is connected to youth work and sharing and transferring knowledge to others and learning from that process. By doing so, they will acquire different perspectives on the topic of human rights in order to become active advocates of human rights in their local communities. Human rights education with its values, principles, objectives and methodologies connects youth work practice with the overall goal of sustaining a living democracy more explicitly and by respecting the dignity and autonomy of the individuals involved. Human rights education improves the quality of the work done with young people, as it prepares both the youth worker and the young person to act on the basis of certain values.