Hate targeting specific groups of people is realized in both speech and action. It is grounded on ideology and prejudices that are modified culturally and are enforced in everyday interaction. There are different forms of hate, from mild hate speech to violent hate crimes. Hate speech covers many forms of expressions which spread, incite, promote or justify hatred, violence and discrimination against a person or group of persons for a variety of reasons. It poses grave dangers for the cohesion of a democratic society, the protection of human rights and the rule of law. If left unaddressed, it can lead to acts of violence and conflict on a wider scale. In this sense hate speech is an extreme form of intolerance which contributes to hate crime. While there are not recent data for hate speech in an EU level we have data from the reported cases of Hate Crime. According to the latest data from the website of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe the hate crime rate in some countries is worryingly increasing. In Austria in the yearly Anti-Discrimination report the hate crimes reported to police doubled since 2014, also a reason that V-Start a DG Justice co-financed V-Start (Victim Support through Awareness Raising and Networking). In Greece the hate crime reported cases has been tripled in 2017 and in Italy, Poland it increased significantly from 2015 and onwards. Since the connection between the hate speech and hate crime is being identified there is a need for working in the prevention and reduction of the Hate Speech phenomenon.The Internet has opened up new ways of saying things, and it has opened up new avenues to say them to more people. The constraints, however, on what we can say online are far fewer than those which exist offline: we can say things over the Internet that we would not dare to say in public in the ‘real’ world. In many online platforms, anonymity allows people to make hurtful comments on the internet without facing accountability, unlike in many situations in real life.Dealing with Hate Speech has different levels of actions, legal approach to the problem, monitoring activities and finally the education, prevention and capacity building for various social actors, including, youth workers, teachers and young people themselves. Youth workers can heavily contribute in the prevention level and increase their capacities in dealing with hate speech online and offline themselves as well as to empower young people to become active in campaigning against online hate speech, racism and cyberbullying as well as offline. Hate Busters: Youth against Hate is a 24-month project that includes 5 partners:an NGO from Austria, a Lifelong Learning Center from Greece, an international NGO from Italy, an NGO from Denmark and an SME from Poland and aims to equip youth workers and young people with skills on recognizing, dealing with hate speech online and offline and empower them to work further for preventing the causes that lead to this dangerous phenomenon, by connecting more the offline –“real-life” behavior with the online behavior and the real life impact that online hate speech and cyberbullying have on individuals.Project target groups are:-youth workers, trainers, educators, teachers and NGO members-young people, with special focus on young people at risk of marginalization and of migrant background Project results and activities:C1: HateBusters TrainingIO1: HateBusters Guide: how to build a bottom-up campaign against HateIO2: HateBusters Awareness ToolkitIO3: HateBusters AppFor the production of these results we intend to use non formal and human rights education methodology,mindfulness and self responsibility theory. Hatebusters’ objectives are to:-develop and disseminate tools and mechanisms (a guide, a toolkit and an app) for youth workers and young people for recognizing, identifying and classifying hate speech online and offline and its various forms and components such as discrimination, segregation, racism, bullying, cyberbullying, violence and its impact among young people-equip youth workers and young people with the know-how, tools and methods for building a bottom-up campaign against the perceiving problem of hate speech-raise awareness of the importance of human rights online activism and youth mobilization and support young people’s sense of initiative in the social field and the combat against hate speech-open up youth work to cross-sectorial and transnational cooperation across the field of youth and enhancing youth workers capacities in preventing racism and intolerance among youthThe HateBusters will have 305 direct participants from both target groups in its activities (TPMs, multiplier events, training activity, local focus groups) and through its products aims to reach 300 youth workers and 1000 young Europeans in order to create HateBusters multipliers and contribute to a less hateful, more diverse and accepting Europe.