Bridge

The BRIDGE project stems from the desire of the partner institutions to innovate the education system in favour of greater well-being in the school environment. In fact, research from around the world over the past 50 years has shown that collaborative, child-centred education has several positive effects in many areas that are important for schools. The collaborative dialogic approach to student-centred education has a positive impact on student well-being by enhancing competencies, social skills and communication skills, which are in themselves a driver of well-being.  In addition to these effects, it has been shown that also leads to increased student achievement and attainment. Building on the experience of practitioners and research results, the partnership intends to develop a set of tools to be used in schools that are easily replicable and adaptable to different school contexts in Sweden, in partner countries and more generally throughout Europe. The project will address primarily a set of target groups which include teachers, students and other school staff as managers and support staff, meanwhile additional target group might be researchers civil servants in the field of Compulsory education, and families.