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Healthy European Youth

2014-1-RO01-KA201-0028852014Strategic Partnerships for school educationfinalized
Countries: RO|FI|TR|ES|SK|PL|EE|EL|IT · Grant: €298,652
Health and wellbeingAccess for disadvantagedEarly School Leaving / combating failure in education

Project summary

Our consortium has 9 schools from 9 different countries. We created this project to encourage students to adopt a healthy lifestyle through sport and healthy food choice. We propose the development of sport and activities , wen promote healthy eating and encourage team work, promotion of European citizenship and inclusion, tolerance, mutual respect, solidarity. We will use the intercultural dialogue and bringing to the fore both the diversity and unity of Europe. We will develop our through activities 8 key competences to develop our students` knowledge, abilities, skills and attitudes that prepare them for finding a suitable place on the labor market in Europe. The target group consists of gymnasium students from partner schools. They will work with their teachers ,families of students and representatives of local communities. We will encourage the participation of students who belong to a minority, socially disadvantaged students and students with educational special needs. The project will run for 3 years. Every year,the activities will have a theme: BALL SPORTS GAMES, HEALTY EATING, GAMES BOX. The activities in each school will be subordinated to the chosen theme. For every year there is an operational plan including monthly activities, target group involved, means of achievement, assessment methods, final products, methods of dissemination, implementation period, finance charges, responsibles for the activities. The purposes of activities are deriving the big goals of the project. Every year we will organize three international meetings. Each school will participate with 2 representatives. The number of representatives will be different at the last meeting of each year as it will be for learning purposes. This meeting will be attended by 6 students and 2 teachers from every school. The students who will participate in mobilities and learning activities will be hosted in families of students from the host schools. Students and their teachers will participate in teaching lessons and will realise manufactured materials as active participants. In the category of intellectual products will enter 2 bilingual methodological guidelines that are described by ten non-formal activities that contribute to the development of healthy lifestyle. These guides will present in English the activities in details (subject, target group, objectives, materials needed, time budget, business stages, the activities performed by the students, the activities undertaken by teachers, final product, methods of assessment, effective impressions about activities , possible variants of organization of activity). The first guide will be made after the first year of the project and the second guide will be made after the second year of the project. The first will describe sports and the second will describe activities which promote healthy eating. After the first year and after the second year of the project it will be organized an international workshop with the participation of coordinators from every school and with the participation of other guests from the local community and other schools interested in the project. Workshop topics : SUSTAINABLE LIVING BY SPORT, HEALTHY FOOD – FROM FARM TO PLATE. The workshops are multiplier project events. Other products of the project will be: In the first project year : a calendar with famous athletes in the partner countries , a sports dictionary, a film about the organization of learning in the first year of the project .In the second year: a magazine with four issues presenting healthy food ( about milk products, about fruit , about vegetables, about meat) .In the third year : a book about board games (chess , rummy, scrabble , dominoes, puzzle games, pawns ) ; will be described games , school competitions of these games and will be attached posters about these games ( used by each partner to popularize school competitions organized within the project). In achieving the above mentioned products will work all partners. The project will be disseminated on the websites of schools, the project website, local media, in professional meetings of teachers and students in the project exhibition products. Each international meeting and the two workshops will be synthesized in a main film that will be posted on the project website. For making of this film will be responsible the project coordinator. The project site will be built by our Turkish partners. The workshops will be organized by the coordinator. The logo and the mascot design will be chosen through negotiation until the first project meeting. Project evaluation will be made using the initial and final questionnaires, participating in the contest materials products MADE FOR EUROPE by organizing a regional symposium in coordinating country after completion of the project (Formative Assessment Strategies theme in Erasmus projects).

Final report summary

Our partnership had 9 gimnazium schools from 9 different countries. We created this project to encourage students to adopt a healthy lifestyle by choosing a healthy sport and diet. The healthy education promotes learning in other subjects. In general, healthy students learn better. Numerous studies have shown that healthier students tend to do better in school. They have higher attendance, have better grades, and perform better on tests. For this reason, the aims of our common work have been: exchanging experiences, best practices, methodologies and tools among staff of partner organizations (teachers/ members of training staff and people involved in planning project activities); developing common creative methodologies, tools and new projects on health education and training issue; promoting at local, national and transnational level the role and involvement of schools, families and community in the learning process; awakening social and institutional actors to the issue health education; increasing transnational mobility opportunities for the target group. the healthy lifestyle. We all we have designed and developed sports, we promoting healthy eating and encouraging teamwork, we promoting European citizenship and inclusion, tolerance, mutual respect, solidarity. We have used intercultural dialogue and we have brought to the fore both the diversity and unity of EU. We have developed through all our activities the 8 key competences to develop the knowledge, skills, abilities and attitudes of our students who are preparing to find an appropriate place on the European labor market. The target group- middle school students from partner schools. We have worked with teachers, student families, and local community representatives. We have encouraged the participation of pupils belonging to a minority, socially disadvantaged students and pupils with special educational needs. The project has been running for 3 years. Each year, we have had a theme: BALL SPORTS GAMES, HEALTHY EATING, GAMES BOX. The activities in each school were subordinated to a chosen theme. Each year we have developed an operational plan with monthly activities, the target group involved, the means of realization, the evaluation methods, the final products, the dissemination methods, the implementation period, the financing fees, the activities responsible. We have had common activities and local activities. They were chosen by each partner school. The goals of the activities were to achieve the major objectives of the project. Every year we have had 3 international meetings. We also had 3 learning activities. Students and their teachers participated in teaching lessons and produced materials produced as active participants. In the category of intellectual products we have developed 2 methodological guides that describe formal and non-formal didactic activities that contribute to the development of a healthy lifestyle. These guides are in English. The first guide was made after the first year of the project, and the second guide was made after the second year of the project. The first describes the sport and the second describes the activities that promote a healthy diet. After the first year and after the second year of the project we organized an international workshop with the participation of other local community and other schools interested into the project. Workshops are multiplier project events. Other project products: Into the first year of the project: a calendar of famous athletes in the partner countries, a sports dictionary, a film about the organization of learning in the first year of the project. In the second year: a magazine (dairy products, fruits, vegetables, meals). In III year: a book about table games (chess, rummy, scrabble, dominoes, puzzle games, pawns); We have described games, school contests. We have created posters about these games (used by each partner to popularize school competitions organized within the project). All partners have been working on the above mentioned products. The project was presented on the school's web sites, in the professional meetings of teachers and students, in the exhibitions with the project's products. Each international activity is presented in short films posted on the project site. The workshops were organized by the coordinator. The logo and design of the mascot were chosen by negotiation at the first meeting of the project. The evaluation of the projects was done using the initial and final questionnaires, participating in the MADE FOR EUROPE competition. In the coordinating country, a regional symposium (Formal Evaluation Strategies in Erasmus + projects) will be held after the project is completed. Longer-term benefits- the good practices, the innovative methods of teaching and experiences, the learn foreign languages, to discover other cultures and religions. This had a positive impact among the local communities and will promote healthy lifestyle.

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