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
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:
To systematise and present the key principles of developing social-emotional skills through outdoor education and the arts.
To offer educators practical tools to help develop social and emotional skills.
To encourage more schools to adopt a systematic approach to teachers' and students' social and emotional well-being.
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:
Partners: L2 Consulting AB (Sweden) SAKARYA UNIVERSITESI (Türkiye) Miško briedžio mokykla, MB (Lithuania) UPPSALA KOMMUN (Sweden)
Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the National Agency. Neither the European Union nor National Agency can be held responsible for them.
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Daugiau informacijos
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:
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)
Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the National Agency. Neither the European Union nor National Agency can be held responsible for them.