Our first objective is to equip school leaders with the knowledge, tools, and peer support needed to cultivate and sustain growth mindset practices within their institutions. This means helping principals and leadership teams to:

• Foster environments that encourage resilience, effort, and lifelong learning.

• Move beyond fixed notions of intelligence by promoting inclusive, adaptive leadership.

• Apply participative leadership strategies that empower teachers and students alike.

• Translate growth mindset theory into practical school-wide implementation.

By developing these capacities, we aim to create schools where every student believes they can improve, every teacher feels supported to innovate, and every leader models a mindset of continuous learning.

The second objective of PGN is to create a vibrant and lasting network of principals and school leaders from across Europe who are united by a shared commitment to growth mindset leadership.

This network aims to:

• Promote peer learning and coaching among educational leaders.

• Facilitate the exchange of best practices, tools, and leadership models.

• Strengthen a sense of European educational identity based on inclusion, equity, and innovation.

• Ensure that leadership development is not isolated, but supported through community and shared experience.

By bringing together school leaders from diverse contexts and countries, we create space for mutual reflection, cultural exchange, and collective problem-solving. These connections will outlive the project itself, enabling future partnerships and innovations in leadership across Europe.

As a result of pursuing these objectives, PGN will deliver:

• A cross-European network of 100+ principals engaged in ongoing collaboration.

• Multiple professional development events (1 onsite, 2 online) co-created and co-led by school leaders.

• A repository of shared learning materials, case studies, and strategic tools for leadership development.

• Increased capacity within schools to drive cultural shifts towards growth-oriented learning.