The EUROPE Project

The EUROPE project is focused on the implementation of the Quiet Time Programme based on Transcendental Meditation, aiming at reducing stress and violence in schools and at promoting social inclusion. The QT/TM programme was implemented in 12 schools in Portugal, Sweden and The Netherlands, with a total of about 500 students and learners, 350 school teachers and staff and 77 parents trained in the QT/TM programme. This has generated the interest of about thirty schools and clusters of schools in the implementing countries that are at the moment interested in adopting the QT/TM programme and in joining the EUROPE project expansion. The project raised interest from schools and other educational institutions in other countries as well, including Belgium, Cyprus, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Latvia, Poland, Romania, and Spain.

• Home page (Approach, deliverables, presentations, results, etc.)
   
• Results summary (in English)
   
• Policy recommendations (in English)
   
• Collaborating organizations
   
• Europe_D 5.6_policy_guide_29.12.2018 12/29/2018
   
• Experiences with a Novel Approach to Preventing Violence and Implementing Inclusive Education: The EUROPE Project, Frans Van Assche (ed.), 2019.
   

Summary of activities in Portugal, Sweden and The Netherlands

• Year 1
   
• Year 2
   

The final EUROPE conference held on 29th November 2018, Brussels was attended by teachers, policy makers, educational authorities from all across Europe, representatives from the European Commission, and all those interested in the Quiet Time based on Transcendental Meditation programme, in education and in social inclusion. Teachers and school principals from Portugal, Sweden and the Netherlands talked about their experiences during the EUROPE project and scientific results from the EUROPE implementation were presented.

• Part 1 (1 hr 20 min)
   
• Part 2 (1 hr 33 min)