Supporting Students Emotional Health, Well-being and Resilience in Times of Global Crisis Erasmus Project

Project Title

Supporting Students Emotional Health, Well-being and Resilience in Times of Global Crisis

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 : Strategic Partnerships for school education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Post-conflict/post-disaster rehabilitation; Health and wellbeing

Project Summary

Well-Be project combines the efforts of 4 partners from UK, Bulgaria, Spain and Italy reflecting current challenges in the field of school education arising as a result of the global COVID-19 pandemic crisis. Our project mission is to support secondary education students in building resilience skills and overcoming the negative effects of social exclusion after the end of the epidemic. This goal will be achieved by analysing the psychological (psycho-social) effects of social exclusion in students and, on this basis, updating educational priorities and focusing pedagogical measures on the needs of students in the post-epidemic situation.

We have envisaged 2 main intellectual outputs:

IO1 – Survey Research Handbook. This output will serve as a comprehensive approach to research the impact of crisis stress on the current mental state of secondary school students. By exploring the psycho-emotional status, attitudes, needs, motivations and types of their stress response we will equip teachers, parents and those interested in supporting young people in the post-epidemic situation and new realities with appropriate, reliable and effective measuring tools and coping skills.

IO2 – Teacher’s Guide for working with secondary school students who have experienced the COVID-19 crisis: an online repository of How-TOs to support youth’s psychological wellbeing and to keep positive climate at school. This output will provide systematic information on adequate interaction approaches, training methods and specific thematic developments to overcome the effects of the crisis, restore mental well-being and develop personal resilience of students between the ages of 14 to 19.

The project addresses two main target groups as follows:

– directly – students from secondary education level (14-19 years) who need skills to build resilience and overcome the negative consequences of stress and support to boost their motivation for learning and development;
– indirectly – teachers and other educators who need to be prepared and equipped with adequate tools and practical guidelines for interacting and supporting adolescents.

In terms of qualitative outcomes we aim to achieve:

– students who are better adapted to the post-epidemic situation and who are more effective in dealing with stress;
– teachers who are better prepared to participate actively and confidently in this process, by being provided with adequate information and useful resources;
– a positive school climate and a more conducive environment for the development of key competences;
– a more resilient young generation actively involved in managing the long-term effects of the COVID-19 crisis;
– training institutions in Europe which will have practical tools for monitoring the dynamics of students’ psycho-emotional status and resourceful guidelines for crisis intervention.

The long-term impact will involve the creating conditions for faster adaptation of students to new realities and for the better preparation of school staff on the topic, respectively for better interactions and a positive climate in the school. The in-depth and systematic information on the status of students will provide a starting point for the changes that need to be made in the education system and the resources that are needed so that it responds to the needs of the students and the teachers for coping with critical situations.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 165052 Eur

Project Coordinator

THE MIGHTY CREATIVES & Country: UK

Project Partners

• Fo.Ri.Um. società cooperativa
• NATSIONALNA SHKOLA PO MENIDZHMANT
• M&M Profuture Training, S.L.