Creative Learning For Life CL4L

For thirty years now, the Department of Mental Health of the World Health Organization (WHO) has considered these skills as fundamental psychosocial abilities to promote health education and foster personal well-being, identifying school as the privileged educational context in which to implement prevention, integration and promotion programs of Life Skills education.

The school context, in fact, represents the place where the process of extra-familial socialization begins, where we begin to interface with cultural and social rules, where children and adolescents are trained to think critically, to know how to collaborate with others, to create and maintain good relationships, to establish and pursue goals. For these reasons, the school age group is also the most suitable for preventing any risky behaviors, which are increasingly widespread today.
These skills prove important in all phases of a person's life, helping each person to adopt resilient and functional behaviors in the face of multiple contexts and situations, often even unpredictable ones. Today, having just emerged from the Covid-19 pandemic, we realize this more than ever.

In a world of increasing and unstable transformation like today's, what we ask ourselves, therefore, is how to help people - and especially young people - to relate in the most profitable way to this continuous and rapid change.

How can we equip them? What are the new skills that need to be developed to be able to interface with the current demands of life?
The technical skills needed to perform a certain activity or task – on which most of the curricula of current education systems are based – alone are no longer enough.
As also recommended by the Council of the EU in 2020, to adapt to contemporary changes, education systems and Vocational Education and Training (VET) systems must be designed as agile systems capable of offering a balanced combination of technical and transversal skills, which allow people to operate both individually and socially, adopting an effective and positive attitude.

Even when facing the current job market, given equal technical skills, an employer or recruiter will choose someone who is able to collaborate, mediate, resolve conflicts, find solutions to problems and communicate effectively.

We are looking for new partners to develop new projects about the learning of the 10 Life Skills

Project website: https://cl4l.eu/