As Common Ground moved into its second half, participants shifted from understanding how digital hate spreads to practising ways to respond to it safely and constructively. They worked with the Pause-Check-Choose routine to slow down automatic reactions online, acted out realistic hate speech scenarios, explored digital safety habits, and started developing practical tools such as scenario cards and pocket reminders. The final days focused on turning that learning into action. Each national team designed a workshop to take back to their local community, adapting the project methods to issues relevant in their own context: 📌 Turkey: supporting migrant women📌 Egypt: social class stereotypes and discriminatory language📌 France: hate speech targeting North African immigrants📌 Germany: responding to hate speech in everyday life📌 Jordan: hate speech in sports and fan culture📌 Morocco: hate speech targeting Sub-Saharan migrants📌 Sweden: online safety for teenagers📌 Tunisia: cyberbullying and the Pause-Check-Choose method With the exchange complete, the next step was putting these ideas into practice through local workshops and sharing the methods with more young people.

At the end of May 2026, 40 young people from eight countries came together in Marrakech for Common Ground, an Erasmus+ Youth Exchange focused on one of the challenges young people increasingly face in their everyday lives: online hate speech. The project looked at how hate spreads through group chats, short-form video, social media and other digital spaces, often targeting people who are already vulnerable. Rather than focusing only on large campaigns, Common Ground centred on small, repeatable habits that young people could use in everyday situations to recognise hate, respond safely and keep dialogue open across differences. During the first days, participants got to know one another, built a shared foundation for the exchange and explored how hate speech spreads online, including how messages can be distorted, framed and amplified before reaching us. They also compared the realities of digital hate across their countries, looking at how issues such as migration, identity, gender and sexual orientation appear in different contexts. A key part of the project was learning practical ways to respond. Participants worked with the “Pause, Check, Choose” approach, reflected on the harm caused by rumours and hate speech, and practised simple responses such as asking for a