BeWell aims to to support young employees and vocational educators to address the rising mental health issues afflicting Europe’s young adults today.Promoting the health and well-being has been a primary concern of employers, but the demands on employers to safeguard the well-being of employees have been augmented since the switch to remote working caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Through delivering the Be-Well project, we aim to provide a range of micro-learning well-being resources to young employees and businesses to support work-based learning programmes and to promote workplace well-being among our business and vocational education and training networks.
Expected project results and deliverables
To support young employees to safeguard their well-being, Be-Well partners will also develop a range of smartphone-based micro-learning resources, that can be used to present self-help resources and learning content to employees directly in their workplaces, or through online channels if they are working remotely. This will be designed as a Well-being Planner and presented as a 28-day calendar. In each window of the calendar, for each day in the 28-day challenge, we will provide a QR Code with a link to one micro-learning resource. The 28-day calendar will comprise 28 individual stand-alone learning resources. These 28 micro-learning resources will include a combination of quizzes, digital breakouts, short articles or blogs on the Be-Well MOOC, animations or short video lectures, reflections, or self-assessment activities. This planner will be accompanied by a handbook containing a 1–2-page self-help activity for each of the 28-micro-learning resources, addressed to supporting young employees to reflect on what they have learned through this micro-learning activity, and to apply it to their daily lives and routines to help them to manage their well-being.
To support VET educators so that they can aid the building of resilience and the promotion of positive mental health and well-being among young employees and VET learners through developing bespoke continuous professional development (CPD) training programme for VET trainers. Through this train-the-trainer style programme, our aim is to engage VET educators in upskilling opportunities so that they can develop micro-learning resources to address emerging labour market needs. In addition, a library of 35 Open Educational Resources (OERs; 5 national OERs per partner) will be presented through the MOOC platform to support HR managers in local companies to understand and address the well-being needs of young employees in the post-pandemic economy.
To provide access to all of the learning materials developed, Be-Well will also develop an online learning platform – called a MOOC. This MOOC will be promoted by all members of the project team as a one-stop-shop for employees, employers, coaches, mentors, and VET trainers to gain access to our well-being resources.
To make a case for practitioners and policymakers working to address employee well-being and workplace health-and-safety to integrate the Be-Well resources into workbased well-being programmes, BeWell partners will also develop a Policy and Practice Recommendations Report.
Partnership
Στοιχεία Προγράμματος
Title: BE-WELL: Smartphone Learning Opportunities to Promote Well-being in Young Employees
Implementation period: 09/2022 – 08/2024
Agreement number: 2022-1-ES01-KA220-VET-000086525
Thematics: Education & Training, Digital Transformation, Health & Well-being
Website: https://be-wellproject.eu/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bewellerasmus
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/be-well-project
Status: Ongoing