The project "Let's fight with stereotypes" was an initiative to train 30 competent youth workers in the field of intercultural learning. These workers came from 7 partner organisations from the following countries: Poland, Greece, Italy, Spain, Romania, Portugal and North Macedonia. In today's Europe, which is becoming more intercultural and multiethnic, this topic is becoming more and more relevant. According to our needs analysis, there is a need among our partners to conduct workshops and meetings between people from different cultural backgrounds in order to get to know each other better, to understand different perspectives opinions and therefore to contribute to the social inclusion of people who have newly arrived in our countries, or who arrived some time ago and are still socially excluded because of their origin. Therefore, together with partners, we decided to implement a training course for youth workers, which will allow them to conduct workshops in their local communities for people with different cultural backgrounds (nationals, migrants, refugees, foreign exchange students) based on non-formal education methods. Moreover, the training was to equip participants with the ability to select and adapt non-formal education methods to the group with which they work. The main need pointed out by our partners was that they lack knowledge and skills on how to conduct quality workshops for young people in their countries on intercultural learning. They needed to have in their ranks people who have these tools and skills and are able to use them in their everyday work in partner organisations. At the same time, our partners struggled with staff shortages among their employees. Organisations diagnosed that more and more people who were born in another country were participating in their activities. Needs were defined through an email contact we had during the development of this proposal. The training was co-created by the participants themselves, who, with the support of their parent organisations, participated in its creation from the very beginning, including indicating their own educational needs and interests. These needs were diagnosed by exchanging experiences and cooperation with organisations from particular countries and participants from those countries. In this way, we were also able to work out the specific aims and objectives of the project, which were: - training competent youth workers in the topic of intercultural learning - Personal experience of non-formal education methods by the participants - learning how to implement and modify methods that can be found in many publications on intercultural education methods - development of participants' cultural awareness and equipping them with instruments to influence societies in developing active and open attitudes - development of soft competences among participants, who, thanks to their acquisition, will be able to go beyond their comfort zone and actively participate in social life - breaking down barriers and stereotypes as elements that do not serve dialogue and integration - promotion of the Erasmus+ programme and other opportunities and possibilities which the European Union gives us, such as volunteering - spreading the idea of non-formal education as a tool that better prepares young people for the realities of contemporary Europe - promoting intercultural dialogue - increasing the openness of young people to other societies and their cultures as citizens of the European Union - Promote values such as tolerance, solidarity and respect for human rights - Develop awareness of existing opportunities and possibilities, including those offered by the European Union - To internationalise and increase the potential and attractiveness of non-formal education activities for young people among partner organisations. Having the aims mentioned above, as well as meeting the diagnosed needs of participants and, more broadly, the needs of young people to whom the results were be transferred, the project was in line with the aims of the Erasmus+ programme, as well as the aims of Key Action 1 and learning mobility of young people. It is mainly about creating opportunities - raising the level of key competences (including soft competences) and skills of young people, including those with fewer opportunities, e.g. by increasing independence, boosting self-esteem, developing critical thinking skills, identifying opportunities and possibilities and stimulating the sense of initiative, motivating to further action - developing intercultural dialogue by raising intercultural awareness, improving foreign language skills, and emphasising pragmatic international cooperation.