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The aim of the project is to support education about human rights as well as to counteract discrimination, intolerance and hate speech in schools. The project is addressed to teachers, students, pupils and seniors in the city of Kielce. According to the Ombudsman''s 2020 report, over 90% of people surveyed declared that they had no direct experience of discrimination in the past year. This indicates little knowledge of what discrimination is and when human rights are violated. Our office is located in at 7 Planty Street – the site where the Kielce pogrom of 4 July 1946 began. The educational experience we have gained during the last six years shows that the knowledge of the inhabitants about the causes of the pogrom is still low. According to research, more than two-thirds of Poles (70%) are of the opinion that anti-discrimination education should be carried out in schools. One of the important elements of educational activities for human rights is intergenerational education. This is why we will organise meetings with seniors and young people, where seniors will talk about their experiences with human rights violations, from the perspective of witnesses or victims of discrimination. Then a presentation of the accounts of these meetings will be shown during an event for the school community. An important aspect of education is to make the audience more sensitive to the consequences of hate speech. We will organise a conference for teachers dedicated to human rights, focused on recognizing hate speech in school. In our educational activities we will use the methods and tools of the Understanding Your Human Nature Programme based on research by Philip Zimbardo.