The contact making seminar “CooperAct” was created from the need to bring NGOs working on capacity building for educators and educators themselves coming from different backgrounds in order to meet together and reflect &review how to strengthen our capacities in human rights education and intercultural learning in order to address current challenges of nowadays and alarming trends throughout Europe including populist movements, discrimination of various minority groups and others. The objectives of the CMS were: - To share realities in different member states of CoE and reflect on the opportunities of HRE and intercultural learning as potential driving force in advocating democracy - To acquire knowledge on various European programmes and funds which can support initiatives in the area of HRE and ICL. - To brainstorm the competences of educators which need to be developed/ enhanced in nowadays situation (e.g. political competence etc.) - To develop joint initiatives for educators aiming at strengthening our capacities in HRE and intercultural learning - To develop joint strategies on dealing with different challenges of HR in educational field - To reinforce cross-sectorial cooperation - To create new contacts and networking - To innovative mechanisms and to develop a new ideas; to draft project ideas (Youth exchanges, trainings, seminars, voluntary projects etc.) - To contribute to capacity building of other organisations by doing “peer reviews”; - To deepen knowledge on EYF and Erasmus + programs, other European and national funding opportunities and to find potential partners for application The project took place 18-24 March 2022 in Sazava, Czech Republic and involved 45 participants from 14 countries ( Portugal, Hungary, Italy, France, Romania, Spain, Russian Federation, Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia, Armenia, Belarus, Poland, Czech Republic). The project was financed by Erasmus+ National Agency of Czech Republic. The applicant organization is Kuro Hradec Kralove. The programme was based on the principles and methods of non-formal education. As one of the aspired results, we expected participants first of all to develop their knowledge skills and attitudes on the opportunities of human rights education as a tool for advocating democracy, as well as possibilities of intercultural learning in the process of active citizenship and social diplomacy. Besides that, we expected to develop joint initiatives together in the field of HRE for different groups of educators and young people.