Wellbeing ASAP -Ascending Strength and Ambition on a Path to wellbeing- 1 to 3 ! Erasmus Project

Project Title

Wellbeing ASAP -Ascending Strength and Ambition on a Path to wellbeing- 1 to 3 !

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : School Exchange Partnerships

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Health and wellbeing; Inclusion – equity; Early School Leaving / combating failure in education

Project Summary

The project “ASAP, 1to3” focuses on the topic of wellbeing. We believe that dealing with this topic is crucial in order to help our students acquire self-confidence, feel more comfortable and integrated when at school, avoid earlier droping out so as to grow up as balanced and healthy adults. “A healthy soul in a healthy body” could be the sub-heading to our joint project.
We would like our students to be open-minded and well informed, to reject conformism, preconceived ideas but also manage diversity and differences, whether physical, mental or academic ones. The project’s topic will develop according to the following stages:
a) wellbeing when dealing with my immediate surrounding
b)wellbeing in an assertion of physical strength and personal fulfillment
c) wellbeing and mental health
d) wellbeing and feeling safer in today’s virtual world.
We think that young people, teachers and staff need to understand that the “feeling good” motto, in its broadest sense, is not a lesser element in today’s schooling.

The objectives of the project are: • To promote social inclusion, tolerance and mutual understanding; • To give young people tips to reach a personal harmony • To encourage a wellbeing-based momentum, for pupils, teachers, school staff and parents •To achieve high intercultural competences; • To improve language competences; • To develop digital skills.

The schools involved in this project are Lycée Blaise Pascal, from France (coordinating school), College Georges Gironde from France too, Tullamore College from Ireland, Osnovna Skola Prelog school from Croatia and Leonardo Da Vinci School, from Bulgaria. They have different experiences but they share the same commitment and wish to encourage young people to think critically, engage themselves in a global wellbeing reflection to bring about changes and take decisions, with the support and cooperation of the European partners.
The participants will be selected using well-defined criteria and will include students with fewer opportunities related to geographical, cultural differences and economic obstacles. The project teams will support these participants by monitoring all the activities and by using the methodology of cooperative learning. The number of the students, from 14 to 18 years of age, who will participate in the learning/teaching/training activities fluctuates between 20 to 28 per country, the number of teachers will be 8 per country.
Most activities the students are going to do are meant to raise awareness, learn to learn, introduce and contrast practices and opinion, create the proper working atmosphere and provide them with the necessary tools to implement a wellbeing policy at school and, to a larger extent, in their personal life. The activities will consist of research, interviews, dialogues, meetings, the organization of sporting events, articles, exhibitions or the project website. The students will also take part in learning/teaching/training activities in the five partner countries. The final outcome will be a handbook of reflections and recommendations to foster a climate of trust and confidence between schools’ stakeholders, from primary to third level education.

The expected impact on the students is that they will acquire the necessary skills and competences to:
• work in groups and support each other; • accept and manage diversity;• reject stereotypes and prejudice;• create a school environment where everybody may feel accepted on their own terms; • communicate in a foreign language fluently; • integrate ICT tools in their learning activities.
More in general, the expected impacts are the following: • increased dialogue and cooperation among all the education stakeholders; • teachers’ increased ability to meet the needs of students from diverse profiles and to tegrate a wellbeing-based approach in their teaching;• intercultural dialogue through all forms of learning; •decision-making skills

The dissemination of the results will be conducted in diverse ways:
Information and outcomes will be uploaded on the partners’ school websites in a dedicated section, on the Erasmus+ platform, Facebook, eTwinning and Erasmus+ corner. The results will be disseminated through school publications, school magazines, school notice boards, brochures,the project websites, local newspaper articles, in staff meetings, parent–teacher meetings, Open Days and meetings with the local educational authorities and/or school governing bodies. All tangible results will be disseminated with the Erasmus+ and project logos and thus credit for the funding will be given.
The longer term effects will be:
– students’ awareness of diversity and the value of inclusion;
– the building up of self-confidence and encouraging ambition among pupils
– schools’ organization of local events promoting the ideas of the project and disseminating their views on wellbeing and its implementation from an earlier age;
– the setting up of a European network of schools;

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 140769 Eur

Project Coordinator

Lycée Blaise Pascal & Country: FR

Project Partners

• Tullamore College
• Osnovna skola Prelog
• First Private School Leonardo da Vinci Ltd
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