Hello Teenager! Erasmus Project

Project Title

Hello Teenager!

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 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Environment and climate change; Health and wellbeing; EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy

Project Summary

The aim of our Erasmus+ KA2 project “Hello Teenager!” is to focus on the challenging life of today’s teenagers. With the help of this project six European schools aim to improve the well-being of teenagers, to increase the participation of teenagers, to increase the awareness of environmental issues and sustainability and to develop the school culture of the participating schools into more international and sustainable. The participating school also aim to increase international competence and skills of the pupils and school staff. This project will help the schools and participants to expand their European networks.

The project participants of the project “Hello Teenager!”:
Oriveden yhteiskoulu, Orivesi Finland
Oriveden lukio, Orivesi Finland
Liceo Classico Statale Pilo Albertelli, Rome Italy
Gimnazija i strukovna škola Jurja Dobrile, Pazin Croatia
Agrupamento de Escolas de Alvaiázere, Alvaiázere Portugal
Gymnasium Am Turmhof, Mechernich Germany

The project is a continuation of the Erasmus+ KA2 project “Everybody matters” aiming to tackle early school leaving and disadvantage by developing the social skills of our pupils and school staff by working on the wellbeing at school making our schools to more caring and safer places to learn. The continuation project “Hello Teenager” will make it possible to continue working together on these topics but also to add the environmental issues and sustainability as a project topics.

Many pupils suffer from stress and anxiety and they feel overwhelmed with all the demands and expectations at school and in their freetime. During the project period we want to promote the messages “You’re enough” and “When you’re doing your best, that’s enough”. We want to teach our pupils how to deal with stress and other mental issues by teaching them how to look after own mental health. We also want to teach school staff how to face the wellbeing issues and how to give every pupil the feeling of importance and respect. It’s about paying more attention to the pupils and to support all of them, to notice everybody and to encounter teenagers, opening the dialogue with an teenager by looking the teenager in the eyes and simply saying “Hello! How are you doing?” This is what the young people of today need, someone reliable to talk to and someone who listens to and shows caring.

There are a bunch of very social and active pupils in every school. These pupils are members of school board, youth parliament etc. Still, according to the school health surveys there are many pupils who feel that they are left out of decision making and that’s why they don’t participate. According to the school health surveys especially boys seem to be more passive. They don’t want to participate in school activities. We want to work on this issue together and find new ways to make everybody involved in the school activities and international project work. We want our pupils to become more active inside own school and hometown as well as more active European citizens. Taking care of pupils’ wellbeing is the job of each staff member. All teachers need to do something to increase the wellbeing of pupils. We will build a group of students who will become wellbeing agents. They’ll regularly organize wellbeing moments during the school days in collaboration with subject teachers.

We will also develop our schools with the sustainable future teams. During the project period we want all our pupils and school staff to learn that everybody can and should make a difference, because everyone of us is an active participant building a sustainable future. Your own daily decisions really matter as well as the bigger decisions made by politicians on local or international level. In our eTwinning project and in the international project workshops we will deal with the topics Agenda 2030 and Commitment 2050. We will start regular sustainability meetings at each partner school, where representatives from all school departments working inside the same school building – pupils, teachers, admistration, cleaning services, school kitchen etc. – sit down together and think what small steps could be done inside own school to make it a more sustainable place to work.

All the partner schools participating in the project “Hello Teenager” want to become more international. The international atmosphere is possible to create by involving all the pupils and school staff in the project work and project activities. eTwinning project, international workshops and individual pupils mobilities will increase the global and cultural competences of pupils and school staff. We will organize a project kickoff meeting, four international project workshops and six reciprocal long-term pupil mobilities during the project period.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 169780 Eur

Project Coordinator

Oriveden yhteiskoulu & Country: FI

Project Partners

• Oriveden lukio
• Gymnasium Am Turmhof
• Gimnazija i strukovna skola Jurja Dobrile Pazin
• Liceo Classico statale Pilo Albertelli
• Agrupamento de Escolas de Alvaiázere