Geniko Likio Pentapolis participated in the Erasmus+ project "Empower for Employability" during 2018-2021. Students learned about different learning types and learning styles, testing themselves and developing strategies and examples for successful learning. Moreover, they investigated aspects of motivation and how to become more successful by boosting motivation with relation to body language and power poses as well as its importance for success, via motivational speakers and the students delivering their own motivational speeches The student workshop about “How can school and formal education become more motivating”? was organized using teaching methods such as snowballing and discussion groups, and triggered a debate on the topic by engaging the participants. Two workshops, run by a teacher of humanities and a STEM teacher, explored how project-based learning can engage unmotivated students in knowledge and skills acquisition. Finally, positive thinking and mindfulness for