Schul-Connect is a bi-national, interdisciplinary project that aims to develop an evidence-based digital toolkit to support teachers and schools in assessing and promoting students’ well-being, social participation, and transversal competencies. Through close collaboration with educators, school leaders, school social workers, and school psychologists in Switzerland and Germany, the project follows a participatory approach to ensure strong practical relevance and usability.
Schul-Connect will be designed for primary school levels and will address two areas of growing importance: students’ mental health and their social integration. Both domains are central to learning and long-term development.
The digital toolkit will consist of three components:
a child-friendly survey tool that enables schools to collect data on well-being, social participation, and transversal competencies
a feedback tool that analyzes and visualizes results, providing teachers with data-based insights
a collection of practical classroom activities and strategies to support students in the targeted areas.
To develop these components, the project brings together expert groups in both countries, conducts focus groups with students, and builds on existing empirical research and best-practice examples.
By integrating diagnosis, feedback, and intervention into one coherent system, Schul-Connect aims to strengthen evidence-based educational practice, support early identification of needs, and foster schools’ capacity to create inclusive, healthy, and socially supportive learning environments.