It is widely documented that social and emotional learning (SEL) programs are effective in promoting mental health and well-being in children and young people. However, a number of shortcomings of these programs have been identified, which may compromise their sustainability and long-term effect. The BOOST project will go beyond state of the art of current SEL programmes and develop an approach to integrate SEL in teachers' pedagogical skills and classroom interaction and a tool for organisational development to facilitate implementation and uptake of the approach in classrooms, schools and among school owners (the BOOST approach). The development will involve the young themselves, as well as school owners, teachers, policy makers and a multidisciplinary team of researchers from fields of education, public health, psychology and economics. This is to ensure the relevance, acceptability and organisational and political anchoring of the intervention, as well as to increase the potential for scale-up and sustainability of the intervention locally, regionally, nationally and internationally. The end users of the BOOST approach are schools and teachers, but the target population are children and young people. To ensure the relevance of the BOOST approach in a wide range of European contexts, the approach will be developed, implemented and tested in three diverse European settings, Poland, Spain and Norway. The BOOST approach will be evaluated for its short-term and long-term effects on children's social and emotional well-being, as well as for its economic benefits.

<< Objectives >>We want to involve the target group as much as possible in processes that can empower women in the short term and in the long term leading up to a user-driven cafe.We want to make a plan together with the women on how we can establish a cafe using different methods. We want to find a social entrepreneur who can help establish a user-run cafe run by minority women.We will prepare a collaboration with the adult education in the municipality around vocational Norwegian.<< Implementation >>Partnermeeting in Palermo with HRYO and Barcelona with M.art.Developing and/or implementing tools to empower the target group.Exchange of experience in digital meetings with the partners in the project.User participation in the development and implementation of measures - meeting activities.Meetings with local businesses around social entrepreneurship.Collaboration with an extended project group in Modum around vocational Norwegian and social entrepreneurship<< Results >>Migrant women will have increased participation in civil society and the labor market. More minority women get an everyday life characterized by life skills, community participation and self-sufficiency.Developing tools, handbooks or a product for empowering migrant women that can be transfered to other places in Europe. We have found a social entrepreneur and made a progress plan for a user-run cafe.