A European partnership exploring how schools can support wellbeing, responsibility and digital confidence in everyday school life.
MIND+ is currently being developed by its European partnership. The project is active and progressing across four countries.
MIND+ is a 36-month European partnership working with schools across Portugal, Spain, Greece and Lithuania. Its purpose is to explore how the rhythm of everyday school life can support wellbeing, responsibility, and digital confidence for students, educators, and the wider school community.
The project brings together schools, education organisations, research institutions and digital innovation partners. Together, they are designing, testing and sharing approaches that connect three areas often kept apart: how young people make decisions in a digital world, how they relate to themselves and others, and how schools take responsibility for their environment and community.
Central to the project is the MINDupToolkit, a digital platform currently in development that will allow students to reflect on their daily wellbeing, take small meaningful actions, and reach out for support within a safe and private school environment.
Schools today are asked to support more than learning. They are places where young people develop their sense of self, navigate technology, build relationships, and form their first ideas about responsibility and care for others.
These areas are often treated as separate concerns: digital safety here, mental health there, sustainability somewhere else. MIND+ starts from a different premise. It explores how these areas already overlap in the daily life of a school, and how a more connected approach can support both students and the adults around them.
MIND+ is not setting out to deliver fixed answers. It is exploring what becomes possible when schools combine attention to wellbeing, responsibility and digital development as part of one coherent approach.
If school communities are supported with practical tools, shared learning, and time for reflection, the project's working assumption is that educators can integrate these areas into everyday practice, students can develop greater confidence and resilience, and schools can embed responsible, sustainable approaches into how they operate. That assumption is what MIND+ will be testing in real classrooms across four countries over the coming years.
Young people make hundreds of small decisions every day in digital spaces: what to share, what to react to, what to trust. MIND+ is exploring how schools can help students build the judgement and confidence to navigate these choices well, without relying on rules alone. This is about cultivating capacity, not adding restrictions.
School is where young people aged 10 to 18 spend most of their day, and where many of their most important relationships take shape. MIND+ is exploring how schools can support belonging, mental health and the quality of connection between students, teachers, and families. The aim is to make wellbeing part of everyday school life, not a separate intervention reached for only when something goes wrong.
Caring for the environment and acting responsibly within a community are not abstract topics for the future. MIND+ is exploring how schools can bring environmental awareness and shared responsibility into the rhythm of the school day, in ways that feel relevant to students rather than lectured at them. This includes how schools themselves operate, not just what they teach.
MIND+ takes a particular approach to its work, shaped by who is involved and how schools tend to operate in practice.
The project welcomes interest, questions and connections from schools, educators, families and organisations as it develops.
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