Project summary

The dangers which threaten the students’ wellbeing during their studies are rather well identified: emotional or financial difficulties in the family environment, lack of exercise and excessive consumption of junk food, disconnection from nature, addiction to digital technologies, sexual and moral harassment etc. However, wellbeing is a priority for students to be able to feel happy and succeed at school.

Some tools to improve this wellbeing exist and the goal of this project is to exchange some practices experimented in the 4 school partners: Turkey, France, Romania and Poland. In each school, around 30 students, aged 15-18 and 6 to 9 teachers will take part in the mobilities.

Through activities done during transnational meetings, complemented with others via the e-Twinning website, the students and the teachers will discover and exchange some simple practices which contribute to empowering wellbeing: sports activities often connected to nature, training on healthy diet, discovering the benefits of drama practices, raising awareness of sexual harassment and violence at school and of the mechanism of addiction to digital technologies and initiation into meditation.

From a methodological point of view, a lot of activities are designed to be done in international groups, in collaboration, in order to develop foreign language (English, French) and group work skills of the participants.

Moreover, this project will give the opportunity to promote an opening to Europe in the 4 partner schools, which is absolutely necessary to fight against falling back on nationalist identity and to develop a sense of feeling of European citizenship.

Several impacts are expected. Among them, more self-confidence, better health, more open-mindedness to the others for the students, a motivation to develop some new practices for the teachers, better ability, skills and experience to develop European projects for the schools.

Some concrete indicators will allow us to assess the impact of the project on the participants. The content of the activities will be disseminated through different media, such as the TwinSpace of the project (Empower students'wellbeing).

Through this project, we have the ambition to motivate everybody to use and develop the trails initiated in the activities. This will modestly help to make the school atmosphere more peaceful and to stimulate the pleasure of learning and teaching.

Małgorzata Sokołowska
Jérôme Vallot