Peer van der Kreeft, a social educator, has been the head of prevention at De Sleutel in Belgium for 25 years until 2011 when he was appointed as a full time lecturer and researcher at the University College Ghent. Peer has served at the basis of lifeskills interventions like Lions Quest in Europe in the late eighties and designed with a multicultural group of authors Unplugged in the beginning of this century. He published children’s stories to start prevention at very early age as well as articles in scientific and popular journals. Internationally, he presided the EU Prevnet Network from 2002 - 2006, and has led the EU-DAP Drug Abuse Prevention Faculty project for international adaptation and training of trainers. In 2017 he took the lead of the European Universal Prevention Curriculum adaptation process. The same year he wrote UNODC’s Line Up Live Up manual on life skills through sports activities for prevention of drugs, crime and violence. Successful prevention tools are now rolled out in Europe, Russia, South-West Asia, Latin-America, the Middle East, North-, West-, South-Africa and Pakistan. Peer has been awarded the EUSPR Honour for Leading European Prevention Science Practitioner in 2015. He was elected president of the European Society for Prevention Research in 2019. Peer retired from his University College Ghent academic role in May 2021.
