Across the Euro-Mediterranean space, hate speech has moved from the margins into daily life. It spreads fast through closed chats and short-form video, is amplified by polarised public debate, and often targets people who are already vulnerable. Young people sit on the front line: they see it in class group chats, gaming servers and neighbourhood pages, and they are asked to pick a side before they have the tools to pause, check and choose how to respond. In Morocco and across partner countries, migration and identity are frequent flashpoints. Sub-Saharan migrants in Morocco could be subject to hate speech online and offline, while in other partner countries, with varying realities, the prevalence of hate discourse exists on topics such as gender, sexual orientation and migration. Youth exchanges often react with campaigns or long trainings that few can reuse at home. Common Ground takes a different approach. We focus on small, repeatable practices that help young people handle hate speech in everyday situations and keep dialogue open across differences. The exchange creates a safe, mixed Euro-Med group to test these practices, learn how to support peers who are targeted, and bring the methods back to their own youth clubs and schools. Hosting in Morocco matters: it exposes European and South-Med youth to each other’s realities on migration and belonging, and it lets participants practise across languages and cultural codes that they meet online every day. Our objectives are to: O1 - Critical inquiry: build a short “Pause - Check - Choose” routine so youth slow down before reacting and separate facts from framing. O2 - Understand harm: recognise how hate speech and rumours damage people and social cohesion, and learn responsibility for one’s words. O3 - Constructive responses: practise five low‑risk replies (ask for source, name impact, invite to private, set a boundary, do not amplify/report). O4 - Mutual respect across cultures: develop language and behaviours that reduce heat and support dialogue across Euro‑Mediterranean contexts. Our project builds three habits that counter this trend: think critically, respond safely, and talk across differences with dignity. We treat hate speech not as isolated insults but as an ecosystem of rumours, coded messages, pile-ons and silence. The goal is for young people to be empowered in recognising, analysing and de-escalating those patterns.