Project title: Developing multi-professional Higher Education for promoting mental health and well-being at schools
Leading partner: TURKU University of Applied Sciences (Finland)
Partners: Vilnius University (Lithuania), University of West Attica (Greece), University of Novo Mesto Faculty of Health Sciences (Slovenia), Medical University of Plovdiv (Bulgaria)
Total value of the project: 317,130.00 EUR
Start: 1 September 2020
End: 31 August 2023
About the project:
The Well@School project builds new knowledge and practices for higher education. The aim of the project is to ensure that primary school teachers, nurses and curators have the competences required for promoting mental health in school communities, using digital methods.
School professionals face the challenges related to the mental well-being of school children, in their daily work. New kind of competences are needed so that children and young people can receive support and help for finding ways to cope with various challenges affecting mental health.
Despite the various mental health promotion trainings and interventions, the number of children and young people with mental health challenges is high. In addition, various psychiatric disorders are a major factor in the lives of children and young people worldwide. School professionals need up-to-date information and sufficient understanding of today's needs and means of mental health promotion.
Objective:
The Well@School project will develop a new platform for open access to specific knowledge for nurses and other professionals working with school populations of children in health education and prevention. The project aims to develop key competencies or skills for promoting mental health in school children. The project will create an online course and manual for mental health promotion in elementary schools. With the tools developed, we also aim to promote digital competencies in communication, teaching and learning for professionals in schools working in the field of health education and prevention. With digital tools, Well@School will support the international collaboration of researchers, university teachers and experts from the professional world, which will contribute to internationalisation and the promotion of the use of a foreign language (English). The international process of collaborative development and validation of the platform will support shared learning and applicability of the material across multiple European countries, as well as the development of national and international strategies.
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Expected changes:
Funding information: The project is co-funded by the Erasmus+ program of the European Union
Link: Erasmus+
Official project website: Well@School
Access the framework Access the course Handbook in English
Mental Health and Wellbeing at Schools: Health Promotion in Primary Schools with the Use of Digital Methods
by Evanthia Sakellari; Venetia Notara; Areti Lagiou; Natalja Fatkulina; Svetla Ivanova; Joonas Korhonen; Nevenka Kregar Velikonja; Valentina Lalova; Camilla Laaksonen; Gergana Petrova; Mari Lahti.
Children 2021, 8(5), 345.
Competences for promoting mental health in primary school
Lahti, M., Korhonen, J., Sakellari, E., Notara, V., Lagiou, A., Istomina, N., Grubliauskienė, J., Makutienė, M., Šukytė, D., Erjavec, K., Petrova, G., Lalova, V., Ivanova, S., & Laaksonen, C. (2023). Health Education Journal, 82(5), 529–541.
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