The aim of our Erasmus+ KA2 project "Hello Teenager!" is to focus on the challenging life of today's teenagers. With the help of this project six European schools aim to improve the well-being of teenagers, to increase the participation of teenagers, to increase the awareness of environmental issues and sustainability and to develop the school culture of the participating schools into more international and sustainable. The participating school also aim to increase international competence and skills of the pupils and school staff. This project will help the schools and participants to expand their European networks. The project participants of the project "Hello Teenager!": Oriveden yhteiskoulu, Orivesi Finland Oriveden lukio, Orivesi Finland Liceo Classico Statale Pilo Albertelli, Rome Italy Gimnazija i strukovna škola Jurja Dobrile, Pazin Croatia Agrupamento de Escolas de Alvaiázere, Alvaiázere Portugal Gymnasium Am Turmhof, Mechernich Germany The project is a continuation of the Erasmus+ KA2 project "Everybody matters" aiming to tackle early school leaving and disadvantage by developing the social skills of our pupils and school staff by working on the wellbeing at school making our schools to more caring and safer places to learn. The continuation project “Hello Teenager” will make it possible to continue working together on these topics but also to add the environmental issues and sustainability as a project topics. Many pupils suffer from stress and anxiety and they feel overwhelmed with all the demands and expectations at school and in their freetime. During the project period we want to promote the messages "You're enough" and "When you're doing your best, that's enough". We want to teach our pupils how to deal with stress and other mental issues by teaching them how to look after own mental health. We also want to teach school staff how to face the wellbeing issues and how to give every pupil the feeling of importance and respect. It's about paying more attention to the pupils and to support all of them, to notice everybody and to encounter teenagers, opening the dialogue with an teenager by looking the teenager in the eyes and simply saying "Hello! How are you doing?" This is what the young people of today need, someone reliable to talk to and someone who listens to and shows caring. There are a bunch of very social and active pupils in every school. These pupils are members of school board, youth parliament etc. Still, according to the school health surveys there are many pupils who feel that they are left out of decision making and that's why they don't participate. According to the school health surveys especially boys seem to be more passive. They don't want to participate in school activities. We want to work on this issue together and find new ways to make everybody involved in the school activities and international project work. We want our pupils to become more active inside own school and hometown as well as more active European citizens. Taking care of pupils' wellbeing is the job of each staff member. All teachers need to do something to increase the wellbeing of pupils. We will build a group of students who will become wellbeing agents. They'll regularly organize wellbeing moments during the school days in collaboration with subject teachers. We will also develop our schools with the sustainable future teams. During the project period we want all our pupils and school staff to learn that everybody can and should make a difference, because everyone of us is an active participant building a sustainable future. Your own daily decisions really matter as well as the bigger decisions made by politicians on local or international level. In our eTwinning project and in the international project workshops we will deal with the topics Agenda 2030 and Commitment 2050. We will start regular sustainability meetings at each partner school, where representatives from all school departments working inside the same school building - pupils, teachers, admistration, cleaning services, school kitchen etc. - sit down together and think what small steps could be done inside own school to make it a more sustainable place to work. All the partner schools participating in the project "Hello Teenager" want to become more international. The international atmosphere is possible to create by involving all the pupils and school staff in the project work and project activities. eTwinning project, international workshops and individual pupils mobilities will increase the global and cultural competences of pupils and school staff. We will organize a project kickoff meeting, four international project workshops and six reciprocal long-term pupil mobilities during the project period.
The aim of our Erasmus+ KA2 project "Hello Teenager!" was to focus on the challenging life of today's teenagers. With the help of this project six European schools aimed to improve the well-being of teenagers, to increase the participation of teenagers, to increase the awareness of environmental issues and sustainability and to develop the school culture of the participating schools into more international and sustainable. The participating school also aimed to increase international competence and skills of the pupils and school staff. This project helped the schools and participants to expand their European networks. The project participants of the project "Hello Teenager!": Oriveden yhteiskoulu, Orivesi Finland Oriveden lukio, Orivesi Finland Liceo Classico Statale Pilo Albertelli, Rome Italy Gimnazija i strukovna škola Jurja Dobrile, Pazin Croatia Agrupamento de Escolas de Alvaiázere, Alvaiázere Portugal Gymnasium Am Turmhof, Mechernich Germany The project was a continuation of the Erasmus+ KA2 project "Everybody matters" aiming to tackle early school leaving and disadvantage by developing the social skills of our pupils and school staff by working on the wellbeing at school making our schools to more caring and safer places to learn. The continuation project “Hello Teenager” made it possible to continue working together on these topics but also to add the environmental issues and sustainability as a project topics. Many pupils suffer from stress and anxiety and they feel overwhelmed with all the demands and expectations at school and in their freetime. During the project period we promoted the messages "You're enough" and "When you're doing your best, that's enough". We taught our pupils how to deal with stress and other mental issues by teaching them how to look after own mental health. We also taught school staff how to face the wellbeing issues and how to give every pupil the feeling of importance and respect. It's about paying more attention to the pupils and to support all of them, to notice everybody and to encounter teenagers, opening the dialogue with an teenager by looking the teenager in the eyes and simply saying "Hello! How are you doing?" This is what the young people of today need, someone reliable to talk to and someone who listens to and shows caring. There are a bunch of very social and active pupils in every school. These pupils are members of school board, youth parliament etc. Still, according to the school health surveys there are many pupils who feel that they are left out of decision making and that's why they don't participate. According to the school health surveys especially boys seem to be more passive. They don't want to participate in school activities. We worked on this issue together and found new ways to make everybody involved in the school activities and international project work. Our pupils have become more active inside own school and hometown as well as more active European citizens. Taking care of pupils' wellbeing is the job of each staff member. All teachers need to do something to increase the wellbeing of pupils. We built a group of students who become wellbeing agents. They regularly organized wellbeing moments during the school days. We also developed our schools with creating the sustainable future teams. During the project period we wanted all our pupils and school staff to learn that everybody can and should make a difference, because everyone of us is an active participant building a sustainable future. Your own daily decisions really matter as well as the bigger decisions made by politicians on local or international level. In our eTwinning project and in the international project workshops we dealt with the topics Agenda 2030 and Commitment 2050. We started regular sustainability meetings where representatives from all school departments working inside the same school building - pupils, teachers, admistration, cleaning services, school kitchen etc. - sit down together and think what small steps could be done inside own school to make it a more sustainable place to work. All the partner schools participating in the project "Hello Teenager" became more international. The international atmosphere is possible to create by involving all the pupils and school staff in the project work and project activities. eTwinning project, international workshops and mobilities increased the global and cultural competences of pupils and school staff. We organize online meetings during the Covid pandemic and five international live project meetings with workshops after the pandemic.