Peace4Europe highlights the role of youth workers as peace educators and provides them with practical tools to bring peace education into non-formal learning settings. The project amplifies youth workers’ capacity to create spaces for dialogue, understanding, and inclusion in their work with young people.
Through a series of dialogue-based workshops, the project has gathered inspiring practices and identified key challenges in merging peace education with youth work. In 2025, these insights were transformed into a practical resource: Youth Worker as a Peace Educator. This educational package helps youth workers apply peace education approaches in their everyday practice.
All materials will be shared widely through partner networks across Europe, supporting a growing community of youth workers committed to building a more peaceful, inclusive society.
September 2023 – August 2026.
Xamk, Southern-Eastern Finland University of applied sciences, BEST, Institut für berufsbezogene Weiterbildung und Personaltraining GmbH, Hungarian GYIÖT, and Estonian MONDO and ENK, Estonian association of youth workers.
Youth workers now have their own peace education course in Finnish on the Peace Education Institute’s learning platform. The online course supports youth workers in starting and developing peace education work as part of their own professional practice. The course includes a self-assessment tool for peace education competencies and examples of real-life situations where peace education perspectives can be applied.
The project is co-funded by Erasmus+ programme.