The proposed project ,,Understanding culture a tool of discovering ourselves’’ will be a training course and will be organized from 29.02.2016-08.03.2016in Turkey Erbaa and seeks to bring youth activists especially emigrants and migrants and youth coming from minorities together to share experiences, knowledge and strategies for broadening understanding of cultural diversity in Europe. They will identify key trends and tendencies over the past decades, the driving ideas and theories of change, important turning points, as well as current research and learning around culture and identity. This event will also serve as a springboard for future collaborations. The project is developed having in consideration the needs of Keçeci Köyü Ahi Mahmudu Veli Türbesi Yaşatma Çevre Güzelleştirme Sosyal ve Yardımlaşma Derneği , to organize a training with such a topic because the organization is working a lot on cultural diversity with young people (belonging to both majority and minority groups) at local level and in cooperation with other NGOs.A significant number of cultural minorities are becoming more alienated from the European societies they live in. Depression amongst some groups of minorities is exacerbated by a feeling of humiliation fuelled by negative media stereotyping about migrants, by institutional discrimination and by rising level of racism. Fear, anger, isolation, frustration, rootlessness, vulnerability, and despair are all emotions which, when experienced by young minorities, could contribute to alienation and exclusion. A lack of recognition of their religious identity, marginalization and deprivation, educational under-achievement, higher grade of unemployment and endemic racism have contributed to a sense of frustration and resentment amongst many minorities and migrant youths.In recent years the sense of humiliation has grown significantly following an increased ethnic profiling directed against migrants and minorities. Muslims also have to contend with rising Islamophobia, particularly voiced by anti-immigrant lobbies across Europe and right-wing parties trying to explain various problems at the expense of Muslim minorities.Simultaneously many young migrants and minorities now face difficult tasks of “social navigation” in seeking to find their own identity or balance their multiple identities; Recent political events in Iraq and Syria lead thousands of Muslims to seek asylum in Europe invoking many unexpected issues for migratory policies and human rights. All these serious and painful issues need to be thoroughly discussed not only by politicians but within human rights circles first of all. And it is crucial to put human rights activists and migrants, Muslims and Europeans on the same page. With this training course we can find solutions for certain problems and also prevent selective use of standards and the manipulation of human rights language.We will be exploring and using different approaches and tools that youth workers could use when organizing activity related to cultural diversity issues.Main aims are to learn how to deal with cultural diversity, to use cultural diversity as a tool opeto discover identity, to work with concrete aspects of cultural diversity and integration of it in youth work and to foster future international projects and collaborations. Main aims of the training course are: a) Seriously empower and train youth activists in dealing with cultural diversity.b) Explain youth workers how to use cultural diversity as a tool to discover and work with identity.c) To encourage youth workers to act with specific aspects of cultural diversity and integration of it in youth work with special focus on how to embrace creativity.d) To foster future international projects and cooperation among socially concerned young people. Objectives: i. Become aware of the importance that influence of culture has on person’s behavior and identity. ii. Recognize and be sensitive for differences that other cultures bring. iii. Develop knowledge and competence in key concepts of intercultural learning and lifelong learning with young people. iv. Acknowledge the Erasmus+ as a tool for intercultural learning and Youth work. v. Be provided with information about existing possibilities and conditions for the development of international youth co-operation projects. vi. Reflect about the importance, possibilities and obstacles of cultural diversity when organizing international youth projects or other youth projects involving various minorities. vii. Exchange best practices among youth activists in working within multicultural environment. viii. Develop tools, activities, strategies for improvement of youth work on local level focused on cultural diversity. ix. Be supported to promote multiplying effect of youth work in local participation.