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An inspiring look inside the Hateless.eu Youth Media Labs in Cyprus! Check out how WAVES Foundation for Global Education is helping young people critically deconstruct media power dynamics and take control of their own storytelling journeys.

Funding Agency: JUGEND für Europa
Learn more about HATE-LESS: https://hate-less.eu

The European Commission’s emphasis on a "whole-school approach" perfectly mirrors what we have set out to achieve with Embrace Future.

As we reach our final month of the project, we look back at our mission: embedding emotional and social competencies deep within the school ecosystem. Creating a supportive environment where students feel safe and teachers feel supported is the only way forward for sustainable education.

Read the full framework here: https://education.ec.europa.eu/education-levels/school-education/well-being-at-school

As we enter the final month of the Embrace Future project, we are reflecting on what it truly takes to foster well-being at school.

According to the European Commission, positive mental health in education is about creating environments where students feel safe, valued, and equipped to manage their emotions and build supportive relationships. Yet, challenges like declining adolescent mental health and teacher burnout show that schools need more tools than ever before.

With Embrace Future, our mission has been to bring mental health directly into the classroom ecosystem. We believe that mental health deserves to be an active, core part of what young people learn every single day.

To achieve this, the EU highlights the importance of a "whole-school approach", viewing schools, families, and local communities as interconnected parts of an ecosystem that impacts the learner. Tackling complex issues like trauma, discrimination, and cyberbullying successfully means building active cooperation inside and outside the classroom gates.

By building emotional and social competencies early on, we can transform classrooms into places where both students and educators thrive. We are nearing the end of this project chapter, but the journey toward making mental health a foundational pillar in education continues!

Read more about the EU's vision for well-being at school: https://education.ec.europa.eu/education-levels/school-education/well-being-at-school

Funding Agency: https://www.eacea.ec.europa.eu/
Learn more about EMBRACE: embrace-future.eu