Erasmus+: New project on teachers’ wellbeing receives €250,000 in funding

The project was selected for funding following a highly competitive process involving more than 1,300 applications, and aims at nothing less than a strategic reorientation of the field of teachers’ health. The researchers involved are taking a holistic approach. “We no longer wish to view teachers’ well-being as a purely private or individual matter, but rather to develop models in which schools, institutions and the entire education system share responsibility for teachers’ mental and physical health,” explains Dr. habil. Benjamin Dreer-Göthe, one of the project partners. He is a member of the European Commission’s “Well-being at School” expert group and the scientific managing director of the ESE, which is responsible for teacher training at the University of Erfurt. He has long been conducting academic research into teachers’ well-being and is working to incorporate these findings into teacher training in Erfurt. Together with his international colleagues, he will analyse teachers’ working conditions and needs as part of this newly funded project and, as a result, design digital teaching materials, practical implementation tools and sustainable long-term support models. “I find it particularly exciting to bring together the different academic perspectives and experiences from the respective countries and, together, to draw new inspiration from them for promoting teachers’ wellbeing.”