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SCHOOLWELL - Future School of Comprehensive Wellbeing

Tampere University
Duration of project1.10.2022–30.9.2025
Area of focusHealth, Society

SchoolWell presents high impact ground-breaking multidisciplinary research in children’s and youths’ comprehensive well-being and means to cultivate it, in school. We will apply a longitudinal nested multimethod interactive intervention research in vivo. Our project contributes to the scientific renewal in the field of well-being research and research-based solutions for proactively enhancing the comprehensive wellbeing 1) by scaling-up the research through building a novel comprehensive multidisciplinary framework, including physical, mental and socio-pedagogical dimensions of well-being, 2) by creating arsenal of measures for studying it, 3) by identifying the well-being equality gaps, and 4)  by creating effective means and supporting materials for enhancing comprehensive wellbeing, ingrained in basic socio-pedagogical practices of school.

Funding source

The project is funded by The Strategic Research Council (SRC) within The Resech Council of Finland. The funding period is 01.10.2022 - 30.09.2025.

Coordinating organisation

Helsinki University, Professor Kirsi Pyhältö.

Co-operators

Helsinki Univeristy Tampere University, University of Eastern Finland, University of Jyväskylä, Jamk University of Applied Sciences, University of Oulu.