Wellbeing in Education Festival – Barcelona

Take part in Barcelona’s unique international festival dedicated to wellbeing in education as a fundamental pillar for successful teaching and learning.

This festival brings together educators, trainers, researchers, school leaders, and mental health professionals to foster emotional resilience, social inclusion, mental health, and healthy learning environments in schools across Europe.

Return home with new knowledge, practical tools, valuable contacts, and renewed inspiration to promote wellbeing within your own school and your local community!

Festival Key Features

🌍 Networking and collaboration: Connect with teachers, education professionals, and trainers from multiple wellbeing-related courses running simultaneously. You will have the chance to gain new knowledge, share your school’s wellbeing projects, get inspired by experiences from other schools, and lay the foundations for future collaborations. Then, bring fresh ideas back home and inspire your own community.

🎤 Exclusive events: Inspiring keynote speeches, expert panels, and discussions on the future of wellbeing in education.

🏆 Wellbeing in School Competition: Showcase your school’s commitment to creating a positive learning environment where wellbeing and education go hand in hand. Opportunity to participate in the Best School Wellbeing Initiative competition, with prizes up to €1000.

🍽️ Social events: Festival lunch, final presentations, and award ceremony.

🌟 Big-picture perspective: Gain a comprehensive understanding of wellbeing as a cross-curricular and whole-school approach that supports academic achievement, personal development, and inclusion.

Schedule

*The detailed festival agenda will be shared two weeks before the event.

School Competition

During the festival, teachers and schools from across Europe will have the opportunity to showcase projects to promote wellbeing in their educational settings. The projects may focus on how they foster student and teacher wellbeing, mental health, social-emotional learning, mindfulness, resilience, inclusion, positive school culture, or community engagement.

Both targeted initiatives and broader whole-school approaches will be considered, provided they demonstrate a meaningful contribution to creating healthier, more inclusive, and supportive learning environments.

Each school may submit a video presentation (maximum 5 minutes).

On Thursday afternoon during the festival, we will screen these videos as part of a dedicated session. This will be followed by the award ceremony, where the best projects will be recognised with the following prizes:

• 🥇 1st Prize: €1000
• 🥈 2nd Prize: €500
• 🥉 3rd Prize: €250

Submission deadline: 25 April 2027
Videos should be submitted to: [email protected]
Subject: Wellbeing in Education Competition

The projects will be judged based on the following criteria:

• Innovation and creativity
• Impact on wellbeing
• Student engagement
• Inclusiveness and accessibility
• Sustainability and long-term value
• Transferability to other schools
• Quality and clarity of presentation

How to Register

If you want to attend the festival activities, you can register here for a fee of 50 €.

Festival participation is free for all participants enrolled in our Erasmus courses during the week of 10-15 May 2027. Register for the course that interests you most and enjoy all festival activities at no extra cost.

Courses available

• Wellbeing in Nature: Outdoor Activities for Mental and Physical Health
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• Happy Schools: Positive Education for Well-Being and Life-Skills Development
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• Resilience and Well-being Strengths for Teachers
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• Mindfulness for Teachers: a Hands-on Approach
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• Art as Therapy: Self-Expression and Special Needs in Art Education
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• Art, Music, and Dance Therapy for an Inclusive Classroom
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• Yoga and Meditation for Educators: Be a Great Teacher, Be Your Best Self
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• Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) for Successful Schools
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• Stress Management and Recognition: Key Strategies for Teachers
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