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Peace in Action

2025-3-PL01-KA153-YOU-0003791922025Mobility of youth workersongoing
Countries: PL|ES|CZ|SK|TR|LT|HU|IT · Grant: €36,477
Prevention of conflicts, post-conflict rehabilitationEuropean identity and valuesHuman rights and rule of law

Objectives

The project “Peacebuilders in Action: Training Youth Workers for Dialogue, Inclusion & Resilience” aims to strengthen the competences of youth workers across Europe in peace education, conflict transformation, intercultural dialogue and digital youth work. By equipping them with practical methods and sustainable resources, the project seeks to improve the quality, innovation and recognition of youth work practice, especially in contexts where young people face polarisation, hate speech, discrimination or radicalisation. What We Want to Achieve We want to create a network of empowered youth workers who act as peacebuilders in their communities, multiplying knowledge and skills gained during the project. The project will: Enhance youth workers’ professional competences in non-violent communication, mediation and human rights education. Provide creative tools (storytelling, artivism, sport-for-peace) and digital competences (designing online campaigns) that are directly applicable in youth work practice. Foster inclusion and diversity by involving at least 30% of participants from fewer-opportunity backgrounds and ensuring accessible, safe and respectful learning environments. Create and disseminate a Peace Education Toolkit, co-authored by participants, to be used in youth work settings across Europe. Support youth workers to run local multiplier workshops, transferring results to at least 160 young people in their communities. Strengthen a transnational network of youth organisations committed to dialogue, resilience and EU values. Objectives from a Youth Work Perspective Improve practice in peace education: Youth workers will learn how to integrate structured peace education activities into daily youth work, making it easier to address conflict and discrimination among young people. Upgrade communication and facilitation skills: Through experiential learning, participants will be able to guide young people in difficult conversations, promote empathy and build trust. Bring creativity into youth work: New methods such as artivism, storytelling and sports will help youth workers design workshops that are attractive and accessible to diverse youth groups. Strengthen digital youth work: By learning to design peace-focused digital campaigns, youth workers will be able to reach young people in online spaces where hate speech and polarisation often occur. Foster inclusion and accessibility: Practical strategies will be developed to involve disadvantaged young people (migrants, minorities, rural youth), making youth work more inclusive. Promote recognition of learning: Youthpass and competence-based reflection will help youth workers document and validate their growth, strengthening the recognition of youth work as a professional practice. Why It Matters For youth workers, this project means access to practical methods, international networking and validated competences they can apply immediately in their daily work. For organisations, it means stronger capacity, sustainable resources, and European cooperation. For communities, it means more inclusive workshops, campaigns against hate speech, and youth workers who are confident facilitators of dialogue and resilience. By combining training, peer-to-peer learning, co-creation of outputs, and wide dissemination, the project ensures that its results extend far beyond the week-long training in Antalya. It contributes directly to the EU Youth Strategy 2019–2027 and the Erasmus+ priorities of inclusion, digital transformation, participation in democratic life and sustainability. Conclusion In summary, the project’s objectives are to empower youth workers with peacebuilding competences, creative and digital methods, and sustainable resources, enabling them to improve their practice, support disadvantaged young people, and act as multipliers in their communities. In doing so, the project strengthens the quality, innovation and recognition of youth work across Europe and contributes to building more inclusive, resilient and democratic societies.

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