Peditory

About the project

War and conflicts harm the mental, psychological and social well-being of youth. According to UNICEF, the war in eastern Ukraine not only threaten young people’s physical safety, but hostilities also jeopardize futures and cause psychosocial distress. That’s why it’s so important to stimulate productive conversations that help to ease the uncertainties this situation may create. For young people, war issues can be an important moment to teach about peace, hope, cooperation, and the role we can all play in creating a better future. The most meaningful step to tackle these issues is to develop awareness and train young people by creating innovative educational solutions regarding peacebuilding, conflict resolutions, and sustaining dialogue environments among different cultures.

General Aim

PEDITORY aims to develop new tools to connect youth with different cultural backgrounds to enable them to build strong, resilient, respectful and peaceful communities. The project contains these newly developed peace education tools, that are freely accessible for people working with youth with different backgrounds in and outside the EU. Therefore, the project partners will develop a combination of peace education and digital storytelling tools to encourage young people to build strong bound with sustaining peace. In that sense, educational materials can be used by youth workers all over Europe.

Peditory’s specific aims are…

Aims to develop innovative peace education tools to connect youth with different cultural backgrounds to enable them to build strong, resilient, respectful and peaceful communities
Train, support and inspire youth workers to enact localised projects on peace education and dialogue between conflict groups of youths to promote inclusive societies and social cohesion
Develop, test, publish and disseminate toolkit on peace education through digital storytelling by using virtual peacemakers platform
Provide young people digital environment that they can share their ideas and stories to sustain peace in community
Promote European values that are transferable in their future education, employment and personal development
To tackle social exclusion and overcome societal conflicts through youth work4
Promote quality standards in youth work by increasing youth organisations’ and local authorities’ expertise in quality non-formal education, the human rights approach, and project management.

Survey results

Youth workers - Interviews

Youth workers - Questionnaire

Youngsters - Questionnaire

News on the project

Peditory LTTA takes place in Cordoba

von garagerasmus | Jul 29, 2024 | Peditory, Projects

On 22-26 of July, three Italian participants represented garagErasmus, taking part in the Peditory LTTA in Cordoba, Spain. During the LTTA, the participants had the opportunity to learn more about peace education and to review the content that will be published in the...

Peditory: survey results of young people and youth workers on peace education

von garagerasmus | Jan 16, 2024 | garagErasmus, Peditory, Projects

Peace education serves the objective of empowering people to become active and engage on a personal and political level to achieve peace.The Peditory project aims at developing a new and innovative methodology and toolkit for peace education based on digital...

Peditory: a project for peace building

von garagerasmus | Apr 2, 2023 | garagErasmus, Peditory, Projects

garagErasmus, along with partners from Ukraine, Portugal, Spain, Lithuania, Belgium and Turkey, is thrilled to be a partner of the project Peditory, which aims to develop peace education and digital storytelling tools to foster mutual understanding and to encourage...