"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." - Martin Luther King Jr. Words of hatred hurt, but non-reaction, often perceived as silent approval, hurt the victims even more. This concept inspired the name and overarching theme of our training course: Don’t Ignore, Act (DIA). Hatred has always captivated philosophers and analysts. Aristotle, for instance, attempted to describe it. Presently, hate speech is defined by the Cambridge Dictionary as “public speech that expresses hate or encourages violence toward a person or group based on factors such as race, religion, sex, or sexual orientation” (https://bit.ly/3xXq6dI). While this is the most widely accepted definition, the United Nations highlights the absence of a universally agreed-upon definition regarding Human Rights, owing to its intersection with freedom of speech and opinion (https://bit.ly/3Cd5v7I), which varies from one country to another. Despite the ongoing significance of the topic, in the context of the growing influence of populist movements in Europe (most notably in Hungary, Poland, and France (https://bit.ly/3RaM43O), addressing hate speech has become an urgent matter. Populism tends to endorse and even foster the use of hate speech, exacerbating xenophobia and LGBTIQphobia within their countries. Today, hate speech proliferates at an alarming rate, largely unchecked, through new communication channels, especially mainstream social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and others. For instance, in Germany in 2019, scholars Karsten Muller and Carlo Schwarz identified a connection between attacks on refugees and prior anti-refugee Facebook posts from the far-right party Alternative for Germany (https://on.cfr.org/2AXP9j1). The accessibility and affordability of social media platforms, coupled with the anonymity they provide and the extensive audience they reach in a short span, have made them the primary communication channel for hate speech. Governments and international organizations attempt to regulate the online realm, but it is a formidable task, one that will take time. In the interim, hate speech continues to spread. Compared to other European countries, obtaining statistics about hate speech in Romania is more challenging. Unfortunately, this is not due to the absence of hate speech but, as noted by the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) in 2019, the lack of a functioning, cohesive system for collecting and reporting hate speech and other hate crime incidents (https://bit.ly/3UHmdn6). Furthermore, the ECRI emphasizes that when acts of violence are reported, there is minimal response from the authorities. This results in the underreporting of hate speech and other hate violence acts in Romania, rendering data collection by institutions like the OSCE unreliable, with only 2 hate crimes reported in 2018 (https://hatecrime.osce.org/romania). The clear conclusion is that there is much work to be done to combat intolerance and hatred, both offline and online. This is why COSI and its partners are actively working to address the situation and participate in the No Hate Speech Youth Campaign (www.coe.int/en/web/no-hate-campaign). To more effectively reach our target groups (local youth), we, as youth workers, needed to enhance our competences (in terms of attitudes, skills, and knowledge) regarding how to handle hate speech. For this purpose, COSI and its partners conducted a joint SWOT analysis among our staff, and as the results suggested, we needed to further develop our competences in media literacy for better use of social media and how to evaluate the information we receive, as well as in critical thinking and communication. Therefore, our goal was to enhance our effectiveness in tackling hate speech within our communities (offline and online) by: 1- Improving the competences of 18 youth workers from 8 partner NGOs in addressing hate speech (offline and online) among young people, through developing media literacy and critical thinking and promoting active citizenship attitudes during the 9 days of mobility; 2- Developing active behavior against hate speech (offline and online) among 160 young people from the NGOs’ local communities by implementing 8 dissemination events and creating/disseminating a ‘Don’t Ignore, Act’ e-booklet in 3 months following the mobility; 3- Enhancing the capacity of 8 European Union countries’ NGOs to become active against hate speech offline in their local communities and online by following the No Hate Speech Youth Campaign guidelines and methods in the 3 months following the mobility and establishing further partnerships among the participant countries.