Similar International Projects
We had other projects, where play, connection, parenting and self-care were addressed.
You can find extra resources there, too!
CAPS – Children’s Access to Play in School
A project focused on making schools more play-friendly by developing a European Play-Friendly School Quality Label. Based on the OPAL model, CAPS works with schools across Europe to improve play environments, train teachers, and strengthen community engagement. The project promotes the Playwork Principles and supports the creation of a European network of play professionals.
Loose Parts – Enhancing Personal Capacity Building and Climate Awareness of Pupils
This project helps schools create richer play environments using recycled materials (“loose parts”) to boost creativity, sustainability thinking, and community involvement. It produced a comprehensive Manual, Toolbox, teacher training programme, and an international research study showing the impact of loose parts play on children’s development and well-being.
Becoming Parents
A project supporting new and future parents through positive psychology, emotional intelligence, storytelling, drama education, and symbolwork. It helps young adults understand their strengths, regulate expectations, and build emotional readiness for parenthood. The project created guides, videos, workshops, and practical tools for both parents and professionals working with families.
Playful Paths
An initiative designed to empower women returning to the labour market after childcare-related career breaks. Using methods like Symbolwork, folktale-based learning, and Playwork, the project offers online training for counsellors, national workshops, and practical resources supporting women in career planning, confidence-building, and balancing work and family life.
PAPPUS
An initiative designed to transform how children connect with nature through the integration of Playwork and environmental education. The project offers a comprehensive suite of resources, including online training modules for teachers, a practical toolkit for schools, and a digital platform for sharing best practices across Europe. By fostering "playful learning" and ecological literacy, PAPPUS helps children develop essential life skills—such as risk management, creativity, and resilience—while deepening their understanding of sustainability and the natural world.
Move and Play the Stress Away
An initiative icreated to support teachers, educators and helping professionals in caring for their mental wellbeing — before stress becomes overwhelming. The project offers practical, low-threshold tools based on movement, play and embodied reflection, designed to fit real educational contexts.
Just like Playful Parents, you can find here an online course, a specialized cardset, and additional resources!
HEART
The HEART Project is an innovative European initiative dedicated to improving the mental well-being and digital resilience of healthcare professionals and vocational learners, particularly those in elderly care. By combining Virtual Reality (VR) and Artificial Intelligence (AI), the project provides cutting-edge tools to help frontline workers manage stress, prevent burnout, and build emotional strength in high-pressure environments.
JOY Project
Ode to Joy aims to increase the ability of people to experience positive emotions and to use these as evaluative perceptions, evaluative feelings and patterns of salience, to create a higher level of intrinsic motivation for learning and for recognition of their competences, both in their professional and in their personal life.
Scrappies Project
Enhancing Creativity and Sustainable Attitudes of Children through Play and Recycled Materials, aka. The SCRAPPIES project is an Erasmus+ funded project where we aim to increase awareness of ESD and develop new tools to make sustainability a fun and engaging topic for children to play with. Our mission is to demonstrate and instruct on the seamless transformation of school activities, rendering them more sustainable, multidimensional, and multidisciplinary, all with minimal effort and cost. We wish to empower schools to foster creativity and divergent thinking using unconventional materials like scrap items (e.g. bottles, foil, caps, cardboard packaging).