Below you can
see four main ideas that have guided the work in this collaborative project.
In the BRIDGE project, we have worked together to support the development of well-being in three domains: Physical well-being, mental well-being and social well-being.
In the project, we have been many stakeholders that have worked together in order to develop and conduct well-being supporting activities as well as to evaluate them. If you want to improve the well-being in your school, remember that a small step in the right direction is still a good step, and it gets even better if more stakeholders are engaged in this important endeavour. Try to engage others to support your school’s well-being development. Think about your particular school environment and consider which these stakeholders are – it can be colleagues, pupils, principals, guardians, networks and organisations outside the school building. This way, your work can be a starting point for a whole-school well-being development.
From prior research we can see that physical, mental, social well-being affect learning. Hence, if you have seen that there are severe issues with the well-being in one or several of the well-being domains in your school, it is likely that improvement will affect also the pupils’ learning. This could be one way to work towards two goals at the same time.
Many of the activities in the BRIDGE project have been applied in at least two countries. This is an example of that schools in different European countries may share similar goals about developing well-being in schools. This has been one important prerequisite for the work conducted and the sharing of experiences in this project. In this website, we share activities and experiences, from several schools and universities in Europe and hope that you will find some of them useful in your school – in your country.
