In the European Union we live in peace for decades now and take this for granted in our daily lives. However, the world around us as well as our societies have become less peaceful. War, armed conflicts and other atrocities are coming closer, their impacts can be felt: social tension, violence, discrimination, racism and exclusion are on the rise within Europe. Not to speak about the emergence of bullying and violence in educational settings all over Europe.It is becoming clearer that our peaceful living is not naturally given but a daily effort. Scientific research shows that Peace education has a more sustainable effect on people and thus societies the earlier it starts. UNICEF has acknowledged this finding by establishing the Early Childhood Peace Consortium in 2013. Unfortunately, this has not yet been translated into national policies and thus into the vocational training curricula for practitioners of early childhood education in Europe. Our consortium wishes to address this shortcoming by implementing the project PEACE EDUCATION IN EARLY CHILDHOOD TO PREVENT BULLYING (PEEC). Our project addresses ECEC teachers and pedagogical coordinators involved in working with pre-school children. An indirect target audience are therefore children, aged 3-6 years; Schools and other educational institutions; Experts in the field of peace and values education, organizations and associations of experts, etc.; Policy makers and decision makers like regional/national authorities and the general public, to raise their the awareness of the importance of peace education from early childhood as key to prevent from discrimination, exclusion, racism, mobbing and violence.Our Project has been designed according to a LOGICAL FRAMEWORK APPROACH in which the pursued objectives will be achieved by specific activities that may lead to planned results. It is in this frame PEEC intends to address peace education as a means to promote equality, diversity and inclusion and further prevent from violence and bullying in early childhood education through the development of a further professional training course of ECEC teachers and educators. This aim is further developed by the following specific objectives and activities that lead to planned results:1: Design a Transnational curriculum for the further training of ECEC teachers in the partners’ countries, complemented with a review of the current provision and existing practices regarding peace education to promote equality, diversity and inclusion. In this frame, we will identify innovative practices, design a survey for ECEC practitioners, select literature references and as a RESULT we will achieve a transversal curriculum for the further training of ECEC teachers’ focusing peace education as a means to promote equality, diversity and inclusion and further prevent from violence and bullying in early childhood education2: Design a further professional training course for ECEC teachers and educators focusing on peace education as a means to promote equality, diversity and inclusion and further prevent from violence and bullying at early ages. We will design and test a train-the-trainer course, which will guide the partners to conduct the PEEC further CPD training course. 3: To enhance the professional development of those working or active in the school education sector by increasing the quality and range of initial and continuing training. We will develop a Toolkit for ECEC practitioners’ including didactic materials, methods and activities which can be used for peace education to prevent violence in pre-school settings.4: Promote the development of innovative learning approaches to raise the awareness of ECEC teachers and educators and support them raise the awareness of all those involved in the education of children. We will design 4 multiplier events in DE, ES, LT and CRO to disseminate the project results and further sustain the project by mainstreaming the use of Peace education as integral part of the initial and further professional education and training of ECEC practitioners as a means to promote diversity, equality, multiculturality and social cohesion.The implementation process and outputs will be thoroughly evaluated to receive a quality product in the end which will be available as open educational resource. During the project we will train six (6) VET teachers, who then test the PEEC - further CPD course with approx. 60 practitioners. Intensive dissemination activities will be launched to raise awareness for the importance of early childhood peace education to prevent from violence and to encourage professionals worldwide to use the peace education methodology Toolkit and training institutions to adopt PEEC – curriculum and CPD course into their training portfolio. The longer term benefits are children and thus citizens equipped with innovative principles and ethics which enable them to build and maintain peaceful societies and sustain social cohesion.