CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVESThe topic of the project, Healthy Lifestyle, comes as a result of data collected in the 5 partner schools involved. As such, the rates of obesity problems (OP) and lack of regular physical activities (RPA) in our schools are:TR Partner School pupils has 25%OP, 40% RSIT Partner School has 20% OP, 45% RS PL Partner School has 25% OP, 50% RS SK Partner School has 27% OP, 35% RS ES Partner School has 20% OP, 35% RSWith this worrying data in mind, we have established as the main objective of the project to raise students’ awareness of the causes and effects of obesity in relation to the sedentarism that characterizes the current generations of students. At the same time, in order to measure the actual impact of the school we have proposed to decrease these rates by the end of the 2-year project.Another aim of this project is to get in contact with schools from other European countries in order to observe the situation in each of them and exchange good practices related to ways of combating such problems.METHODOLOGYWith all these in mind, we have divided our topic into several sub-topics which will constitute the theme of each meeting and exchange envisaged in the project:1. TR-M1- REQUIREMENTS FOR A HEALTHY LIFE2. IT-C1- HEALTHY EATING HABITS3. PL-C2- EFFECTIVE WAYS TO PREVENT OBESITY 4. SK-C3 DEVELOPING LONG-TERM HEALTHY EATING HABITS5. ES-C4- SPORTING ACTIVITIES IN SCHOOL ENVIRONMENTDuring these meetings students will be in the centre of all activities, as we believe that by involving them directly and supervising their work, the project will have a stronger impact on them.The project activities will result in the elaboration of 2 IOs – 1) Nutritional information and healthy foods for School Canteens, 2) Recommendation Book for improving regular sports in schools. DESCRIPTION OF ACTIVITIESDuring the exchanges, students will join classes in the morning and, in the afternoons, they will work towards the achievement of specific goals within each activity:C1- IT The project teams will join the canteen and observe the dishes prepared regularly there. Then, each school cooks presents traditional healthy dishes from their own countries and will actually cook 1 meal that will be tasted by the other participants. C2 –PL The activities will be organized in a forum presented by the students and which includes sub-topics such as - What is obesity?/ Causes / Effects on Health and social image/ The current rates of Obesity C3 – SK students put together the information and statistical data collected and compile a brochure which contains a set of DOs and DON'Ts that every person should follow in order to live a healthy lifeC4 – ES students and teachers run workshops in which all kinds of easy-to-do exercises and games/sports will be presented and performed.NUMBER AND PROFILE OF THE PARTICIPANTSStudents/teenagers: Each exchange involves the participation of 4 students/ country, which means an overall number of 16 students/country who will participate directly in the exchanges. These students will be selected prior to each mobility, based on transparent criteria, which will involve command of English, ICT skills, voluntary work, involvement in the school-based activities and motivation. The number of indirect beneficiaries is a lot larger, as every school will involve at least 10 other students before each mobility in the school-based pre-exchange activities.Teachers/Adults: There will be teams of 7 teachers in each partner organisation so 35 in total who will manage the project implementation. Each of them will be assigned clear tasks from the beginning. This team will involve managerial staff and at least 1 English teacher, 1 PE teacher, 1 Biology Teacher, 1 Medical worker, 1 ICT teacher. They will be chosen by the person in charge of the project, based on previous initiatives, motivation, CV and experience in handling projects. Based on the importance and relevance of their contribution before each exchange the 2 participating teachers/country/exchange will be selected from this team. RESULTS AND IMPACTSWe have assumed the publication of two IOs and 3 other intermediate products which will result from the activities performed during the exchanges. All these will be made available to larger audiences on the project website and through all the dissemination activities included in the dissemination plan.Therefore, we hope that there will be a positive, measurable impact at the level of participants (with a clear reduction of obesity rates among the target group members), of the local school communities and wider communities, at the level of the institutions involved and other related institutions, at local, regional, national and international levels.We have also initiated a sustainability plan which involves the implementation of the project results and the programme in at least 25 other schools/year in the three years following the end of the project.
The project has been carried out in order to raise healthier generation in the future and to promote students awareness of healthier lifestyle. For this reason partners all together prepared a project to show how to adapt doing sports and healthy nutrition. With the basic idea to establish a partnership based on devoloping and applying the transfer of good practices between schools.During this two years process we intended and tried to inform students and families the rules of safe and correct nutrition and suggested healthy living habbits and the importance of doing sports. We also tried to show the process and effects of the course of healthy life. All partners worked with the same sensibility and tried to find solutions and suggestions. Especially our aim was trying to get to adapt school age children the habbit of healthy eating awareness ,seeing the results of doing sports upon our body and whole life in an entertaining way. While doing this we tried to find solutions, tried to show that good nutrition and doing sports can help to reduce the risk of some diseases and increase human beings energy level. All activities done in this two year period with students ,families ,stakeholders all together and were largely able to succeed. All these intramunal and extra scholastic studies and activities between students created awareness and helped us to be succesful. Our project involved from five countries .It was coordinated by Turkey –Tevfik İleri Religious Secondary School from Atakum Samsun. Turkey contributed to the project with 1300 students and aproximately 100 staff –stakeholders. Spanish partners from Motril ,Ave Maria Varadero,Italian partners from Vasto, İstituto Comprensivo, Slovakian partners from Bratislava ,Deutsche Schule ,Polish partners from Rzeszow,Gimnazium Nr2 contributed with all their students and stakeholders. The project target group was mostly choose from secondary school students between the age of 11-15. At the beginning of the project all countries distrubed the tasks to team members.all activities took place under the coordination of these teams. Our project team involved from 7 teachers 50 students, admisnistrative staff and other stakeholders. Team metings to discuss and exchange ideas suggessions were hold. Tasks to team members were distributed. The programme , the project, the topics, objectives to the school community (students,teachers,administrative staff, parents and other local authoroties)was presented. Project included 2 transnational Project meetings att the beginning and end in Turkey. 4 LTTA’s in Italy,Poland, Slovakia and Spain. These two TM were hold in Turkey with the participation of coordinator teachers and back up contact persons. In this first TM the schools ,regions and countries were presented and all the stages of the project wasdiscussed and planned again. Before the first transnational meeting every country created their Erasmus + corner at school. Choose their team,placed the digital monitors in şargely visible areas at school ,designated and created informative brochures. Also at the front end stage af the project before the first TM a questionairre was prepared in line with all partners this questionairre was implemented to all project partner school stakeholders online via internet. The results were evaluated at the first TM and itenerary was planned into consideration to these results. The same questionairre was implemented to all stakeholders at the end of the Project and was evaluated again at the final TM in Turkey. These twoquestionairres were very sufficient to see the changes and progress between the beginning and end. And it was pleasing to see that there was positive development. These two questionairres and results were webificated at our official web page (forhealthyfuture.org) The four LTT meetings were carried out in; Italy – Vasto , Poland –Rzesow , Slovakia – Bratislava, Spain-Motril. As we mentioned before in our Project text, the objectives and result through activiting that contributed to develop the Project an to reach the acceptabilities, were discussed and planned at these meetings succesfully. Via these LTT’s students and teachers were able to develop and reinorce their foreign language became aware of the smilarities and diffrences between cultures ,learned other languages, tasted different dishes students with obesity problems and with the risk of obesity met face to face with their peers from other coıntries . Our social media accounts like www.forhealthyfuture.org (web page) ,erasmussamsun-instagram and forhealthyfuture- facebook have been used succesfully. Because social media has become a very powerful tool for almost anything, with more and more people joining social media sides and using them regularly/effeciently, we tried to take advantages of it. We prepared leaflets, banners ,posters, to show all adresses of these accounts .All partners followed the same way and were succcesful to popularize the project widely.