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Outreach

EUPeace has launched the Living Peace Lab as a hub where academia and society co-create around peace, justice, and inclusiveness.
It bridges research, teaching, and civic engagement, embedding dialogue into curricula and communities.
Beyond projects, it anchors universities as lasting drivers of societal transformation.

EUPeace places societal dialogue at the heart of its mission, reflecting the third mission of universities to engage with and contribute to society. To achieve this, we have established the Living Peace Lab as a flagship platform for civic engagement and innovation. Conceived as a hub linking academia with civil society, policy-makers, NGOs, and industry, the Living Peace Lab creates spaces for collaboration and dialogue around peace, justice, and inclusiveness. By fostering encounters across institutional and sectoral boundaries, it will cultivate new narratives and practices that strengthen resilience and innovation.

The Living Peace Lab is envisioned as a permanent framework that translates societal concerns into research, teaching, and policy initiatives. Activities such as service learning, internships, and co-created projects ensure that societal needs directly shape higher education, while students gain experience in peace-building, mediation, and inclusive development.

At the same time, EUPeace invests in capacities that transcend disciplinary boundaries. Courses and training in critical thinking, intercultural awareness, problem-solving, and mediation embed the vision of peace and inclusiveness within Alliance institutions.

Finally, the Living Peace Lab deepens the embeddedness of universities in their cities and regions, reinforcing the link between higher education and its wider ecosystems. In this way, EUPeace creates a sustainable structure for societal dialogue, positioning universities as active agents of transformation in Europe and beyond.

Contact

Dr Birgit Strotmann

Comillas Pontifical University, WP7 Lead

birgit.strotmann@comillas.edu

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Bridge Dialogues Formats

Participants place colorful Post‑its on a wall during a collaborative workshop activity.

Source: EUPeace Comillas Team

Description: Collaborative brainstorming exercise at EnerPeace March 2026.
Participants stand in front of a wall covered with pink, yellow, and green Post‑its, adding new notes as part of a group workshop. The activity appears to involve collective idea generation.

Living Lab Projects

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Societal Dialogue Groups (SoDiGs)

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UNSA

Soft Skills Courses

The Students’ Peace Declaration

Our recent calls linked to Outreach

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Students gathered and chatting in a courtyard on the University of Limoges campus.

Source: Chloë Fidanzi / Université de Limoges

Description: A group of students engaging with each other on campus, capturing the spirit of connection and community the Student Challenges call aims to foster across the Alliance.

Call for Proposals – EUPeace Student Challenges 2026–2027

Four people sit around a light wooden table in a meeting room, deep in discussion. A woman with silver hair and glasses gestures towards her laptop while a man in a dark T-shirt listens with folded arms. Two further participants, one in a patterned shirt and one in a grey jacket, lean in over notebooks and papers. A projection screen, a flip chart and a whiteboard with handwritten notes are visible in the background.

Source: University of Limoges

Description: Colleagues gather around a table at the University of Limoges to exchange ideas as part of the EduTandems call. In a small-group setting, participants share perspectives, take notes and explore opportunities for collaboration. Sessions like this lay the groundwork for new teaching partnerships across the EUPeace alliance.

Call for participation – EUPeace EduTandems

Source: Rolf K. Wegst

Description: A group of students sitting on steps in front of a building entrance, looking at a laptop on the lap of one of the students.

Call for Student-led Event Proposals 2027

Seven smiling colleagues stand arm in arm in a row in front of a chalkboard wall, dressed in casual business attire.

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Description: Team members come together for a group photo, reflecting the collaborative spirit of the project.
A group of seven people of different ages and backgrounds stand side by side with arms around each other in front of a large chalkboard wall with a yellow-painted brick base. They are dressed in smart-casual clothing in varied colors and are smiling and laughing, with several looking toward one another, conveying warmth and camaraderie.

CLOSED* EUPeace Label Call for initiatives to foster diversity and inclusion

Source: University of Sarajevo

CLOSED* Call for Applications: European Regional Master’s Programme in Democracy and Human Rights (ERMA) 2026/27

Our recent projects linked to Outreach

Vindica – Comillas Pontifical University

Source: Comillas Pontifical University

All Aboard! – Comillas Pontifical University

An audience sitting on chairs, photographed from behind and listening to someone speaking in the front row. A woman is standing at the front with a big screen behind her.

Source: Comillas Pontifical University

Description: The TRAMAS Living Lab held its inaugural session at Comillas Pontifical University in Madrid on 1 July 2026.
An audience sitting on chairs, photographed from behind and listening to someone speaking in the front row. A woman is standing at the front with a big screen behind her.

TRAMAS – Comillas Pontifical University

Young children sit in a circle on the floor, copying a leader's raised-hand gestures in an indoor community space.

Source: Comillas Pontifical University

Description: About fifteen young children sit cross-legged in a circle on a smooth grey floor in a large indoor space with an industrial feel. The scene shows a playful group game that builds coordination and participation.

Sport-Between – Comillas Pontifical University

Source: Comillas Pontifical University

Living R3D – Comillas Pontifical University

Our recent news linked to Outreach

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Participants gather around a conference table at the United Nations Headquarters in New York.

Source: University of Sarajevo

Description: A wide view of the meeting room, showing participants seated around a curved conference table with microphones, laptops and institutional nameplates. Screens display the event title.

27 October 2026

Students’ Peace Declaration presented at the United Nations in New York

Aerial view of a crowded exhibition hall with stands and students, one man in the centre smiling up at the camera.

Source: University of Sarajevo

Description: More than 50 universities, embassies and organisations filled the University Rectorate.

27 October 2026

University of Sarajevo Showcases International Opportunities and EUPeace at 16th Study Expo

Source: Rolf K. Wegst

Description: A group of students sitting on steps in front of a building entrance, looking at a laptop on the lap of one of the students.

26 October 2026

Student-led Event Proposals 2027: Deadline Extended and Online Info Session

Source: Comillas Pontifical University

Description: José Carlos Romero presents the framework of the EnerPeace Living Lab within EUPeace and Spain’s national strategy against energy poverty at the meeting held at Universidad Pontificia Comillas, Madrid, on 6 October 2026.

26 October 2026

EnerPeace Living Lab looks for ways to make Spain’s social energy discount easier to access

United Nations Headquarters in New York, featuring the Secretariat Building and a row of international flags against a clear blue sky.

Source: United Nations (UN)

Description: A view of the Headquarters of the United Nations in New York as seen from the north of the UN site. The buildings are the General Assembly (left) and the 39-storey Secretariat. The flags of 148 UN Member States fly in a row over 500 feet long overlooking the United Nations Plaza.

23 October 2026

University of Sarajevo joins UN discussion on cooperation across divisions

Petr Šimon and Caroline Foulquier stand side by side, smiling, in front of a terracotta-coloured panelled wall.

Source: Université de Limoges

Description: The outgoing and incoming chairs of EUPeace’s Equality, Diversity, Inclusion Board (EDIB): Petr Šimon (left), ombudsperson at the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, and Caroline Foulquier (right), Associate Professor in Public Law at the University of Limoges, who succeeds him as chair.

22 October 2026

Passing on the Torch: A new Chair for EUPeace’s Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Board

A crowded climate demonstration with protesters holding hand-painted placards displaying messages in different languages, including “DON’T BURN OUR FUTURE” and “UNSERE ZUKUNFT”.

Source: Dominic Wunderlich via pixabay.com

Description: A climate demonstration with protesters holding handmade placards carrying messages about climate change in different languages, including English and German. The image provides a visual context for the article’s focus on climate communication and the ways in which language can shape public discussions about climate change, health and social equity.

21 October 2026

EUPeace Explains: What Does Climate Change Have to Do with Our Health?

Ten people stand in a row on grass among tall trees, each holding up a large white three-dimensional letter. The letters are arranged to spell "EUPeace". Most of the group are smiling at the camera, and fallen leaves cover the ground.

Source: Comillas Pontifical University

Description: A group of ten people pose outdoors in a wooded park, holding large white letters that spell "EUPeace". They stand in a line on grass scattered with autumn leaves, with tall trees behind them.

19 October 2026

Around One Table: EUPeace Communication Teams Meet in Limoges

Three university representatives stand behind a University of Limoges information stand displaying brochures, promotional materials and university information.

Source: UNSA

Description: Participants present information about the University of Limoges at an information stand during the EUPeace Staff Week, sharing materials and introducing their university to fellow participants.

16 October 2026

University of Sarajevo hosts its 16th International Staff Training Week and showcases EUPeace opportunities

A grid of faded portraits showing people of different ages, genders and backgrounds. In the centre, a large circle shows a single composite face assembled from rectangular sections of different faces, with forehead, eyes, nose and mouth taken from people with different skin tones and features.

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Description: A composite face made up of features from many different people illustrates how digital systems collect, combine and process personal data to identify individuals. The image accompanies the second part of a two-part series on digital migration, in which Claudio Di Maio from the University of Calabria examines how EU Member States use technology to manage migration.

16 October 2026