EmpowerED: Building Emotional Strength and Social Resilience through Art and Outdoor Education

 

EmpowerED: Building Emotional Strength and Social Resilience through Art and Outdoor Education
No. 2024-1-LT01-KA220-SCH-000253448

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Implementation period: Sep 1, 2024 - Aug 31, 2026
EU Grant: 250,000 EUR
Topics: Environment and climate change; Creating new, innovative or joint curricula or courses; Key competences development

About the project

The main objective to strengthen social-emotional learning (SEL) of secondary school teachers and pupils through non-traditional methods – a combination of art and outdoor pedagogy

Objectives:

  • To offer a theoretical background on SEL.
  • To provide educators with practical knowledge about SEL.
  • To increase the number of schools that are willing to take a systematic approach and improve teachers and students social-emotional wellbeing.
  • To raise awareness of synergies between eco thinking and SEL.

Activities

3 intellectual outputs will be developed:

  • Teachers handbook and tool kit
  • Teachers qualification program
  • Sterategy handbook for schools

3 training events for teachers, 3 online seminars for school managers and one international hybrid conference organised.

Impact

  • Teachers' Handbook and toolkit developed;
  • Teacher training program developed;
  • Strategic Handbook for School Managers developed;
  • At least 60 teachers will participate in teacher trainings.
  • At least 60 school managers will participate in a virtual seminar for managers.

Social media

We launched three project-dedicated Facebook groups for local teachers in Turkey, Sweden, and Lithuania as part of our collaborative project. These groups aim:

  1. To systematise and present the key principles of developing social-emotional skills through outdoor education and the arts.
  2. To offer educators practical tools to help develop social and emotional skills.
  3. To encourage more schools to adopt a systematic approach to teachers' and students' social and emotional well-being.
  4. To raise awareness within the educational community about the strong connection between ecological thinking and the development of social-emotional skills.

Join our Facebook groups and let's begin this journey together:

Turkey: Öğrencilerin Duygusal ve Sosyal Gelişimi İçin Açık Hava Eğitimi ve Sanat

Sweden: Utomhuspedagogik och estetik för ungas psykosociala hälsa

Lithuania: Mokinių socialinių ir emocinių įgūdžių ugdymas gamtoje

Project consortium

The Coordinator:
Vilnius University (Lithuania)

Partners:
L2 Consulting AB (Sweden)
SAKARYA UNIVERSITESI (Türkiye)
Miško briedžio mokykla, MB (Lithuania)
UPPSALA KOMMUN (Sweden)

 


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