To mitigate this gap, from November 1^st, 2024, the Slovak publishing house Expol Pedagogika, in partnership with other partners, began implementing the international project PROWELL (Promoting Well-being and Mental Health for Primary Education Students and Teachers, through Innovative Prevention and Intervention Programs for Primary Schools).

The goal of our project is equip teachers with knowledge and skills on how to pay attention to CHILDREN’S MENTAL HEALTH in their lessons, develop the competences of teachers and students in various sectors related to this topic, learn to reflect on themselves, remain resilient, cope with uncertainty and complexity, support their physical and emotional well-being in and outside the school environment.

The target group of the PROWELL project is mainly children and teachers of primary and lower secondary education, school psychologists, special educators, educators and parents. The project is also aimed at school leaders and other teaching professions in the Czech Republic and Spain.

What are the planned outputs of the project?

The first output will be Preventive program for teaching and non-teaching staff

• online asynchronous training course via a platform that helps integrate prevention into their daily work
• help them recognize the symptoms of learned helplessness, identify risk factors, improve communication with students and parents
• create a safe and supportive environment, strengthen resilience

The second output will be Intervention program for teaching and non-teaching staff

• online asynchronous training course via a platform to address learned helplessness among students
• help them implement effective behavioral , collaborative , individual, group, social emotional, and other relevant interventions

The third output will be Resources for students

• worksheets in paper and interactive digital form to support primary schools in addressing learned helplessness among students
• support trained teaching and non-teaching staff in their work by applying methods of cooperation, individual and group work

The fourth output will be Online Platform

• an open multilingual educational resource with free access for all

Who are the project partners?

• Expol Pedagogika Ltd., Slovakia
• Miguel Hernandez University, Spain
• House Salesians of Elche , Spain
• Pan-European University, Slovakia
• Elementary school with kindergarten Dubova, Slovakia
• Private elementary school Karloveska, Slovakia
• Publishing house Joseph Raabe Ltd., Czech Republic
• Elementary school, Most, Czech Republic

First face-to-face meeting (F2F) of project partners

In December 2024, the 1^st international, introductory meeting of the project partners was held.

The coordinator and organizer of the partnership meeting was the publishing house Expol Pedagogika. Representatives of all project partners from Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Spain attended the meeting. The content of the meeting was the introduction of individual partners, presentation of the project, familiarization with the project documentation and funding rules, launch of the implementation phase, general brainstorming on content, topics and structure, definition of responsibilities of all partners, monitoring of steps from the very beginning, determination of work teams, functioning of Google Drive and communication settings.

What are we planning next in the project?

In the following period, the Pan-European University SR in cooperation with Miguel Hernandez University in Spain and ZŠ Most in the Czech Republic have started working on RESEARCH, the topic of which is the socio-emotional health and well-being of students, behavioral patterns and motivation, competences of pedagogical and non-pedagogical staff to address learned helplessness, school inclusion policies and procedures. Questionnaires for school management, pedagogical and non-pedagogical staff, observation sheets for students will be developed. Subsequently, the data collection process from the 3 partner countries will be coordinated and monitored. Various assessments, research methods and techniques will be applied to extract findings. PEU will compile a research report, the results will be used for program development. Expol Pedagogika will prepare the PROWELL project platform.

Where can you find us?

More information about the PROWELL project and what is currently happening can be found on our official website and on our Facebook profile:

More info : https://prowell.expolpedagogika.sk/

https://www.facebook.com/well.being.project24/