What’s the Well-being University all about?

We are a young group of master’s students who met during a group project at the School of Mangement and Innovation of Sciences Po Paris. Our project consisted in creating a framework for solving one of the problems in our society. We rapidly set about to solve one of the biggest unspoken of issues in today’s social-media crazy world: as distances get shorter, the people closest to us get further away, and as smartphones get smarter, the people using them are less aware of who surrounds them.

Our goal is to tackle loneliness, especially in the age groups closer to us, by creating a platform where people can exchange with their neighbors and colleagues and even their institutions in order to voice their suggestions on how to create a sense of community in their environment. Anyone can benefit by reading the discussions and drawing inspiration on simple things they can do to better connect with their surroundings.

After testing out our webpage, we wish to begin advising institutions on how to carry out these small transformations ourselves, by drawing on our collective knowledge of the social sciences and how to analyze social environments in order to make a big difference.

If you want to learn a little more about our ideas, head down to Resources where we’ve prepared a neat little video to explain what we do!