In 2025, the Youth, Peace and Security (YPS) agenda marked ten years since the adoption of UN Security Council Resolution 2250 (2015). Since then, the agenda has been strengthened through additional Security Council resolutions, most recently Resolution 2807 (2025), which again underlines the need for meaningful youth participation in peace and security efforts. In Europe, only a small number of states have formalised YPS through dedicated national action planning so far (e.g., Finland, as the first country to adopt a YPS National Action Plan (NAP), with the recent adaptation of its second NAP, and Italy is among the only other European countries with a YPS NAP). We can say that Europe is currently at a crossroads. While there is YPS agenda and political agreement around youth participation in peace and security, there is still a clear need for focussed, grassroots capacity-building to turn policy into impactful action. Besides that, the rise of the violent conflicts, with the highest numbers that our world is seeing since the second World War, have fuelled polarisation, calls for violence and endangered the position of youth in building peace and democracy. These developments only show that peacebuilding, youth participation, and nonviolent engagement are not abstract concepts, but urgent needs for communities across Europe. This project responds to the need for trained youth workers who can bridge the gap between global policy commitments and grassroots realities, and ensure that young people are not only consulted but can co-lead peace processes. This project responds to this need for deeper, structured, and long-term support to engage with YPS in practice by implementing two interconnected international training activities for 30 youth workers and young multipliers. The aim of the project is to equip 30 youth workers and multipliers with competencies of the YPS agenda and its various ways of implementation in order for them to support raising awareness in their local communities and to the youth they work with, translate and localise its principles, and foster inclusive implementation of the agenda as agents of change for collective and collaborative actions in Europe, starting from the grassroots levels. Objectives: - Provide participants with the knowledge of concepts of peace, peacebuilding, violence, conflict, nonviolence, peace education and culture of peace; - Equip participants with tools and methods to foster peace processes throughout different pillars of the YPS (participation, protection, prevention, partnerships and reintegration); - Increase knowledge of youth workers and leaders on the YPS agenda, its pillars and different ways of implementing the agenda; - Introduce participants to different international policy agendas and normative frameworks related to the YPS agenda in order to empower them to act as grassroots agents of peace; - Learn from the experiences of those who have worked on the YPS and WPS agendas, in different countries in Europe and beyond, exploring their interlinkages and sharing lessons learned; - Improve participants’ stakeholder mapping and engagement skills and explore ways of building multistakeholder coalitions; - Foster the need for localisation and ensure buy-in of all young people in the process of developing national plans on YPS; - Explore the role of youth in peacebuilding and possibilities for advocacy in YPS at local, national, and European levels and create local advocacy plans; - Create a guideline paper on how to connect young people with the YPS topic at the grassroots local level; - Support the planning design of at least 6 follow-up activities that ensure long-term impact and sustainability beyond the project duration; - Create an enabling and supportive environment to ensure the sustainability of actions beyond the project duration and lay the foundation for sustained pan-European collaboration; - Contribute to the European Youth Work Agenda by strengthening transnational networks of youth workers engaged in peace and security. Thus, the project will equip and empower participants to contribute to quality youth work practices on the agenda at local, national, and European levels. In addition, beyond building these competences, the project will foster a transnational network of youth workers and multipliers who will share knowledge, co-create follow-up activities, and inspire young people in their local contexts. In doing so, the project fully supports the Erasmus+ commitment to lifelong learning, democratic participation, and sustainable societal impact.