The overall aim of the training is to improve intercultural competences of youth workers for being capable to invent and implement youth work methods and tools on preventing and dealing with online and offline hate speech and hate crime among young people especially towards minorities, including Roma, refugees and migrants’ young people. As youth workers, we have to deal with - young people from different cultures, who experience social exclusion and discrimination based on their cultural background; - local young people who are influenced by hate speech online and local level through media and family background; - young people with refugee backgrounds from an different cultural backgrounds, even still traumatised by their previous life experiences; - 2nd generation migrant/ refugee children, who don’t belong to the culture of their parents, however cannot find their place or fit in, s in the culture of majority. It is not always easy to handle intercultural challenges, to be faced with stereotypes and prejudices coming from young people towards each other without really knowing what they are afraid of and why they become more and more xenophobic. We strongly felt that we needed to improve our youth work competences in relation to social exclusion, discrimination, and hate speech in order to be able to be offering such types of youth work activities locally and European level, where young people with different cultural background can cooperate together and preventing and combating online and local hate speech and hate crime together. As the applicant organisation we initiated researches and asked our partner organisations to do the same in order to identify our needs to realise this project. Every member of our consortium researched by S.W.O.T. analyses within their organisations for setting up organisational development goals. The general outcomes of these S.W.O.T. analyses briefly were: Strengths: - young people are coming to our local and European youth activities and projects from our local communities; - our openness and empathy to work with young people from different cultural backgrounds and adapt methods, tools and techniques on preventing and combating social exclusion, discrimination and offline and online hate crime into our daily youth work activities. Weaknesses: - our professional and voluntary youth work staff are not equipped to work with cultural challenges caused by online and offline hate speech and hate crime; - youth work methods and techniques based on intercultural education to fight discrimination, social exclusion and hate speech among diverse young people, need to be experienced and integrated into our daily youth work activities based on the needs of our target groups such as Roma, minority, refugees and migrants. Opportunities: - We cooperate together with other youth NGOs, social institutions and schools in our local communities, so this can support us to make tools and methods on preventing and combating hate speech and hate crime together with social exclusion and discrimination more useful for our communities. Threats: - Social media is a place for racism and can spread hate speech, encouraging hate crime towards young people based on their cultural background e.g. being refugees, being members of minority group, being a Roma young person, based on their sexual interest or religion. Our consortium did research among young people that were work with on a daily basis through offline and online via anonymous questionnaires. It’s general outcomes were: 48% of young people we work with identified themselves as having a different cultural identity than the majority of local communities. They referred to being refugee, Roma, minority e.g. Kurdish, Hungarian, Romanian, Slovakian, African, Pakistan, Hindi, etc. 32% of young people stated that they were not selected to be employed by a firm because of their cultural heritage or skin colour. 35% of young people faced online hate speech because of their cultural origins e.g. being Roma or minority. We have made a needs’ analyses of youth workers, youth leaders, volunteers of the organisations through questionnaires and focus group interviews in order to set up their professional learning needs. General outcomes were as follows; - There is an urgent need for intercultural competence development of youth workers, youth leaders in order to be able to work with young people with diverse cultural backgrounds in order to prevent and combat hate speech and hate crime; - There is a need for understanding the roots of prejudices, social exclusion and discrimination that can lead towards online and offline hate speech and hate crime. - There is a need for youth work methods and techniques locally and at a European level, based on intercultural education in order to fight against stereotypes, prejudices, discrimination, online and offline hate speech and hate crime addressing young people with different cultural backgrounds.