Leadership and Peacebuilding

We support the visibility and active participation of those young people underrepresented in community and public life.

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CyberQuest

CyberQuest is a project supported by PEACEPLUS, a programme managed by the Special EU Programmes Body (SEUPB). It is a groundbreaking cross-border partnership between The Bytes Project (lead), Foróige, REIM Training Solutions, Springvale Learning and YouthAction that blends digital skills training with youth work to prepare young people aged 16–25 for the future. Delivered through a youth work approach, CyberQuest helps participants navigate issues from gender roles and identity to employability and digital literacy. It offers accredited training, peer-led exploration and cross-cultural collaboration, creating career-ready and socially conscious changemakers.

Programme Includes

  • Developmental Youth Work
  • Accredited training (OCNNI, ICDL, ILM)
  • Cross-cultural group projects
  • Training for Youth Workers

Targets

  • 250 young people across all elements
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Let’s Talk

Let’s Talk is a transformative youth programme focused on bridging divides in post-conflict communities. Centred in Derry and Donegal, it brings together 164 participants over two years in structured cross-community programmes grounded in peacebuilding, identity and citizenship. Participants explore vital topics such as human rights, emotional wellbeing and the environment through engaging workshops and shared experiences. With each new cohort, Let’s Talk builds trust, challenges prejudice and strengthens community ties—ensuring that young people not only understand the past but actively shape a more inclusive future.

Programme Structure

  • 4 cohorts over 2 years
  • Topics include human rights, anti-racism, anti-sectarianism and leadership

Milestones

  • 164 participants
  • 6 sub-programmes per cohort
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Shared Agenda for Peace

Shared Agenda for Peace’ will support young people, youth organisations, youth workers and volunteers to promote good relations and enhance young people's skills to contribute to a shared and cohesive society. Local youth work organisations from diverse community backgrounds will collaborate on a one year shared learning programme aimed at supporting new and sustainable relationships among young people and organisations working with young people.

Core Themes

Developing the People

  • free bespoke accredited training, developing skills (inclusion, diversity, shared learning.)
  • identifying opportunities for inclusion through collaboration

Developing the Practice

  • meet with other young people from diverse backgrounds through residentials and trips
  • explore shared learning through art, music, sports, digital media
  • lead a shared social action project across their local communities

Developing the Organisation

  • bespoke support to identify specific needs, challenges and opportunities to promote diversity, inclusion and sharing
  • create an intentional Agenda for Peace plan
  • good governance support and recognition through the 'Diversity Mark ' Award
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AMPLIFY

AMPLIFY is a bold and compassionate programme focused on reaching young people facing complex challenges — from mental health struggles to social isolation, marginalisation and unemployment. Through sustained, meaningful contact and youth-led engagement, it creates supportive spaces where young people aged 14–24 can reconnect with themselves and others through cross-community and cross-border engagement. AMPLIFY helps participants not only cope but actively shape a more hopeful path forward, replacing chaos with confidence, exclusion with inclusion, and silence with a powerful, amplified youth voice.

Focus Areas

  • Good Relations
  • Citizenship
  • Employability Skills
  • Personal Development
  • Positive Progressions
  • Sustained and meaningful contact
  • Cross Community/Cross Border
  • Minimum contact 26 weeks contact/249 hours
  • Youth Work methodologies
  • Informal environments