The Council of Europe Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) on Tuesday published a report on racism in Latvia in which it underscored that the country had made progress on the integration of refugees and those benefiting from subsidiary protection but said that more measures were necessary. ECRI noted in a statement that progress has been made in a number of fields. The integration of refugees and those granted subsidiary protection has been facilitated, it said, but measures should be taken in the sectors of linguistic training, labor market integration, and access to healthcare. Guidelines for investigations into incitement to hate and hate crimes have been adopted and the ''State Police College has significantly intensified its training activities in the area of hate crimes, including for police officers, the Prosecutor General's office and the Supreme Court'', according to the statement issued. It added that the ''authorities developed an Action Plan for the implementation of the Guidelines on National Identity, Civil Society and Integration Policy (2012-2018). They also provided free Latvian language courses to national/ethnic minorities and immigrants, as well as to so-called "non-citizens" who wish to apply for citizenship. The rules for granting Latvian citizenship to newly-born children of "non-citizens" were eased. This project will be organized among EU, Western Balkan and EECA countries because of the cultural diversity and European dimension of our project. This project proposal was jointly developed by BIID (LV) and our European partners in response to the rise of racism in the EU (populism, migrant crisis) and the needs of young people in our organisations, as well as in relation to the experience of partners in using intercultural learning tools such as music, dance and other forms of art in youth work. The overall aim of the project such as to develop young people competences combating racism through intercultural dialogue by using music, dance and other forms of art in youth work. To support young people in intercultural dialogue and anti-racism. To promote intercultural dialogue through music and increasing the quality of youth service provision in partner countries, notably in intercultural dialogue. To mainstream intercultural dialogue in European youth projects. Objectives of the project: Support 66 young people and youth leaders with diverse culturally background to improve their intercultural competence. Improve the youth work capacities of 11 youth organisations as members of our consortium in order to be capable to enhance the quality of their youth work activities with innovative and creative non-formal learning methods addressing diverse culturally young people. Creating Guidelines on using music as non-formal learning method in order to inspire intercultural dialogue among diverse culturally young people within daily youth work activities. Creating Photoblog on music as non-formal learning method for intercultural dialogue and combating racism within youth work activities. Editing a short movie as good example for music as non-formal learning method on combating racism and promoting intercultural dialogue among diverse culturally young people. The project is relevant to several Erasmus+ objectives and priorities: - to promote young people’s active citizenship in general and European citizenship in particular by encouraging young people to be active leaders in their communities - to develop competencies of young people with fewer opportunities, notably in fostering cultural diversity and fighting racism using music - to develop transversal skills of young people by using non-formal learning - to explore European values such as cultural diversity and intercultural learning and their importance for young people in partner countries - to promote cultural diversity as a resource for our society and stress its positive sides; - to give concrete tools to participants through music and discovering cultural heritage of partner countries in order to better understand cultural diversity - to promote Erasmus Plus Programme as a tool for active citizenship and participation in social life of young people.