With the rapid growth of social media, which provided a willing platform, the ways in which hate speech could impact people in all areas of society multiplied. There was no widespread clarity on what hate speech was and how to address it. We intended for this project to meet some of these needs by supporting youth workers to have concrete and adaptable tools to enable them to recognize, challenge, and ultimately transform hate speech. Our project was generated through local research implemented by each partner locally and online. First of all, each partner had face-to-face meetings with their paid, half-time, and voluntary-based youth workers and youth leaders (approximately 80 youth workers, youth leaders) and participated in focus group interviews at least twice during this half-year. The third interviews had happened via Zoom meetings because of lockdowns. Each partner asked their target groups such as young people in general and young people with diverse cultural backgrounds, e.g., minority, Roma, refugees, and migrants, to fill in questionnaires after their youth work activities, then this continued via online surveys because of COVID-19. Approximately 250 young people aged between 13 and 30 were reached via the offline and online questionnaires by all partners. Community meetings were held after the quarantine addressing local decision-makers, teachers, social workers, youth workers, all actors who deal with young people in the local communities of each partner. Approximately 100 youth professionals were involved altogether. The results of local research were uploaded to a common Google Drive, so we could compare them to each other and highlight the explored needs: • 75% of young people had experienced hate speech and behavior because of cultural differences. • 30% of young people participated in bullying their peers, and 20% did not know the reason why. 7% stated it was because they did not like the person at all, and 3% stated it was because of gender, skin color, being a foreigner, etc. • 20% of young people felt hurt by words from their peers, 30% experienced bullying via online means, and 20% stated that it was funny to make jokes about others. 30% stated that they did not have information about what hate speech and behavior were. • 90% of youth professionals had experienced different forms of hate speech and behavior during their youth work activities among young people. • 70% of youth professionals expressed the need to invent, share, and exchange youth work methods and tools to properly address hate speech and behavior in their youth work context. • 60% of youth professionals felt the need to improve their youth work competence in order to be capable of addressing hate speech and behavior of young people properly in a youth work context. Based on these findings, we have defined the main aim of our project: to improve the competences, youth work methods, and tools of youth workers to facilitate the transformative process of hate speech in youth settings based on the needs of the young people they work with on a daily basis. Being capable of dealing with hate speech through appropriate youth work methods and proper manners and competences for the sake of their target groups, especially young people with a culturally diverse background such as minority, Roma, refugees, and migrants youth.