Watch the most impressive peace actions

Gutsy Go method is a tool for schools and cities to enhance participation, trust and confidence, and wellbeing within the society. The method was awarded with first price in Finland’s largest innovation challenge for solutions to help build a better future for young people.

It gives the youth tools for building peace within their own cities. While working together to help others young people strengthen their own wellbeing and self esteem.

Gutsy Go starts off by shaking up one school week. The intervention challenges all 14-year-olds to create solutions to problems in their own city. The youth are guided by their own teachers who have been trained as Gutsy Go coaches. In collaboration with youth workers, legal officials, and community leaders students design and implement unique solutions to promote solidarity and “social peace,” thus preventing polarization and tensions within their own communities. The week results in dozens of positive actions benefiting the entire community.

The solutions are filmed and shared at local premieres, on social media, and across traditional news outlets. Dozens of videos capturing unique solutions promoting societal peace and wellbeing reach hundreds of thousands of people nationwide and beyond. The videos can be found on our Gutsy Flix mediabank and they can be used as inspiration to carry on with the work in schools throughout the year.