Because of changing social, school and economic conditions, pupils face new challenges regarding physical and mental health. On the background of globalization, technical change and the development of the fourth industrial (r)evolution (in Germany called Industrie 4.0), not only technology, but also humans, must become more and more efficient, flexible and faster. Despite all the positive aspects this change includes, there is also a negative impact on our everyday life at school and work. Current studies show for instance that – as a result of the digitization of almost every section of our life – people more and more suffer from back- and headache due to long sitting and from vision disorders due to working at a monitor for too long. The constant availability regarding job issues is a burden to the employee’s private life. This leads to the point that the work-life balance is unsettled, which can lead to the fact that even students suffer from burnout syndrome and feeling overburdened by school, work and family. In order to escape the challenges of everyday life, some students stay away from school and accumulate absences, especially during exam periods. Others are retreat into the digital world or become addicted. The project "Health 4.0 - Health in school also means health in professional life", is intented to start here in order to give pupils at a vocational school suggestions and concepts by they can stay healthy in time of industry 4.0. Even at an early stage students should learn that nutrition, training, self-responsibility, stress and time management can help to stay healthy in the increasingly fast –paced world. The selected five partners from Austria, Luxembourg, Poland, Norway and Germany are all vocational schools. Every single school has already recognized the problem and is working on this with different focuses. This project aims to link the already existing concepts of the individual schools and to create a holistic health concept for students, focused on the changing society. In a first step, the actual situation at the partner schools is evaluated with a questionnaire developed by the project partners, in order to derive improvements at the schools with regard to training, healthy eating and stress management (addiction prevention). The focus will be on a special break concept, in order to provide students opportunities for physical activity during the whole day at vocational school. A nutritional concept based on fresh fruit and healthy eating is also part of the concept. An essential element of this concept includes teachers as models for healthy lifestyle. Therefore, theories and models should also be taken into consideration in order to rethink and, if necessary, adapt behavior. Teacher’s health shouldn’t play an insignificant role. In the long term, this project will help to develop and establish a holistic health concept for the partners to prevent the negative effects on health caused by industry 4.0 and to encourage other schools to implement it.
The project "Health 4.0 - Health in school also means health in professional life" was launched because of the changing social, educational and economic conditions for pupils, which affect the physical and psychological health in their life. Against the background of globalisation, technological change and, in particular, the development towards the fourth industrial revolution (Industry 4.0), not only technology but also human beings must become more and more efficient, flexible and faster. This, as we have been able to prove in our vocational schools, led to various situations that affect the health of the pupils. For this purpose, solutions should be found and teaching modules should be developed that sensitize students for the topic of health maintenance and provide them with precise methodes in order to deal with this problem in everyday life. Students should learn at an early stage that healthy eating, exercise and self-responsibility as well as time and self-management for stress management contribute to mental and physical fitness in the increasingly fast-paced world. The selected five partner schools from Austria, Luxembourg, Poland, Norway and Germany are all vocational schools. Each individual school had already identified the above mentioned problem and worked it out on the basis of various priorities. This project linked the already developed concepts of the individual schools and created a holistic student health concept in relation to the changing society. In a first step, the actual state of the school was collected with a questionnaire developed by the project partners. After that, improvements in the individual schools with regard to exercise, healthy eating and stress management (addiction prevention) were collected. A moving break concept was the focus of attention, in order to offer students a range of exercises during the entire day of the vocational school. A nutrition concept based on fresh fruit and healthy eating was also taken into consideration. However, an important block was certainly also connected with a rethinking of school culture, as teachers teach students healthy behaviour. Therefore, theories and models were also considered in order to reconsider and, if necessary, adapt behaviors. Teacher health also played a not insignificant role. In the long term, this project has helped to develop and establish a holistic health concept in the partner schools in order to offer pupils support that helps to vanish the above mentioned, negative effects on health in the age of "Industry 4.0" and thereby give other schools suggestions for implementation. This was done with the help of a European Health Day. The concept for this day was developed and concretized by the project partners. The project partners decided to have the European Health Day on the Europe Day 2019 in order to achieve a wide reach. More than 300 students from Germany and the partner countries took part on this day. After a concert reading, the students were allowed to take part in various workshops which dealed with stress management, exercise, nutrition, self-responsibility, addiction prevention and time management. These workshops were the results from the project partners' modules and were previously tested in the schools before. During the breaks there were healthy smoothies and fair trade snacks. In addition, a museum tour was presented, which presented the specifics of the partner countries in dealing with the topic "Health at School". The concept of this day has proved to be very efficient because it had a great acceptance among the students and gave them the planned concepts and methods for dealing with their own health.