A Collaborative Health-Promoting School for Children, Youth, and Adults

Purpose and goal

A major societal challenge today is the school environment and its effect on children, young people and adults. Innovation to create a proactive and health-promoting school environment needs to engage more actors, above all at the local level. Our aim is to investigate how a full-scale project can be realized through new forms of collaboration. The overall project goal is an action program and a framework for a collaborative health-promoting school for children, young people and adults.

Expected effects and result

The expected result of the implementation study is a design for a full-scale project that includes several schools and municipalities, as well as an evaluation of opportunities and risks, strengths and weaknesses of the project. The result will be presented in the form of a final report, which will also form the basis for a proposal for a full-scale project. An expected effect of a full-scale project is an improved health among children, young people and adults in health-promoting schools.

Planned approach and implementation

The project is based on system theory and analysis. We will analyze causes of ill health in schools and investigate possible solutions in cooperation. Networks for collaboration will be identified. Activities and actors in focus for a future project will be analyzed. A literature study, and interviews and workshops with actors in Åre school and Åre municipality, will be conducted. Civil society, agencies, municipalities and researchers relevant for our focus will be included in the dialogue.