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Healthy European Youth

2018-1-DK01-KA229-0470682018School Exchange Partnershipsfinalized
Countries: DK|IT|ES|TR|HU · Grant: €138,446
International cooperation, international relations, development cooperationHealth and wellbeingIntercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning

Project summary

HEY aims to bring together students and teachers from 5 different countries and give them opportunity to promote a healthy lifestyle during the project.96 students and 48 teachers will attend the moblities.Agegroup of students is between 11and 15. We will encourage the participation of students who belong to a minority, socially disadvantaged students, and overweight students. The project will run for 2 years.Our project includes both students and teachers and moreover youth workers, civil community organizations and youth leaders. For the aim of achieving the goals we set, activities that will be available during and after the project. In our project, there will be three kinds of activities;Healthy Eating Workshops,Physical Activities and Intelligence Games; Activities; Healthy eating workshops Intelligence games workshops Drama workshops Presentations about healthy life style Creating taboo Farms visiting Free time activities Sports game competitions Short films outdoor teaching activities International evenings The aim of this project is to draw young people’s attention to serious contemporary problems connected with health-related issues in the world, namely obesity and lack of indoor activities. Additionally, the students exchange H.E.Y spring up from the fact that today we live in increasingly multicultural societies, so we need to promote intercultural dialogue and intercultural competences. During the project activities, participants will have the opportunity to enrich their skills and competences through non-formal learning methods (workshops, outdoor activities, discussions) in order to stimulate a new way of thinking and best practices of healthy lifestyle, mutual team support as well as cultural awareness and active citizenship. They will be stimulated to think ‘out of the box’ in order to develop new ideas and to promote group activities for health.The project will have a tangible impact on the participants by developing their nutrition/fitness/healthy habits, skills and knowledge. Tangible Results: - Intelligence games rooms -The analysis report on national training - Certificates and relevant Europass documents for the teachers. -Questionnaires and interviews with pupils,staff and public. -Students will increase their academic success and commitment to school -Project will be conducted on E twinning. -Project homepage on Facebook -Best practice guide for implementation of extracurricular activities for having a healthier life -Healthy eating workshops and students will learn how to prepare healthy meals or snacks -A taboo game will be created including the words about sport,health and games. -A final video -curricular and tools published on project TwinSpace -guides of good practices; -evaluation reports on TwinSpace; -newsletters and information materials on TwinSpace. -Dissemination materials such as brochures,posters,newspapers from local media. -Report and final report will be on the project website and TwinSpace Project management and implementation: As a coordinator,Hungarian partner will be responsible for the project managment.With the implementation of the project, the students will learn healthy life habits and they will learn new intelligence games and free time activities and they will learn how to think about, discuss, communicate and work together with other mates from different countries.This will qualify them and provide them with life-long learning abilities. Dissemination: 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, e-twinning, brochures. We will organize activities concerned with the education to the active citizenship. Students will meet the Major and the local administrators, and they will know all the services that the town offers. They will meet the representatives of associations that work in the territory. Activities with the Parents Association will be organized. All the activities, results, documents will be shared with the Partner schools. Our project's activities will contain all necessary phases: implementation, monitoring, evaluation and dissemination of the project results. We will realize joint projects, teachers and students' mobilities, CLIL, ICT-based methods, peer learning, work in national and international groups, etc. The impact of our project will be that teachers and students in the future will be more open to innovations, new changes, eager to work in international groups together with local authorities and educational government. The project activities will be continued even after the EU funds will end. We would like to join to Europe 2020 priorities and start improving knowing of basic skills and life skills among our students. We need to prepare professionally the teachers to modern way of teaching - this is the key to encourage students to learn and to communicate efficiently.

Final report summary

HEY brought together students and teachers from 5 different countries and gave them opportunity to focus on healthy lifestyle during the project. In the beginning of the project, the team of coordinators used time to sharpen the objectives of the project and to set the overall goal and make agreements about how to maintain a thread through the project. We had a lot of ideas for activities and setting the overall goal made it easier for us to choose the best and most suitable activities between and during mobilities. We agreed, that every time we met, students would make presentations about a specific meal in their country and they would reflect about if this meal was healthy or not. First time we met was in Spain, where students made presentations about breakfast in their country. Second time we met was in Hungary, where students focused on healthy snacks, meeting was in Turkey, where focus was on what we traditionally drink to- and between meals. Fourth meeting was in Italy, where we focused on lunch and fifth time was ment to be in Denmark with focus on dinner, but we had to cancel this meeting due to Covid-19 restrictions. Students prepared presentations and made leaflets to hand out to students and coordinators/ teachers from the other countries. These leaflets contained recipes and reflections about nutrition, health, ingredients etc. Our intention was, to gather all of this in an e-book, that should be distributed to all the participants and the school in the end of the project. Since the work with the e-book was planned to be a student workshop in Denmark, we had to re-think how to end this final result of our work. The aim of this project was to draw young people’s attention to serious problems connected with health-related issues in the world, like obesity and lack of physical activities. We succeded in that field, because we decided to have physical workshops every time we met. Among other activities students have been playing games, hiking, climbing, dancing, cyckling and doing yoga. The focus on meals and beverages made it clear to student how important healthy eating and drinking habits are. We always did workshop in groups of mixed nationalities, so students have been cooking and have been active together, while they socialized and developed cultural understanding and english language. In the beginning of the project, we discussed what health is and we built the content of student meetings around these corner-stones, which are: Healthy eating and drinking habits, a physical active life-style, a stimulated brain, good sleeping habits, a good social life and cultural awareness and language skills that allows our students to be European citizens. Tangible Results of our project: - An innovative intelligence game room has been built on the Turkish and Hungarian school. Intelligence games has been shared among partners. - Health Teams has been established at every school. -Certificates and relevant documents has been shared among teachers and coordinators. -Questionnaires and interviews with pupils, staff and parents has been made. -Students has increased their oral skills in english (measured in grades). -The Project is conducted on eTwinning. -An e-book has been made, to be a guide and inspiration for for having a healthier life -Healthy eating workshops was held and students learned about ingredients and how to prepare healthy meals or snacks -A taboo game about sport and health was created and shared among partners. -Dissemination materials such as brochures, posters, leaflets, newspaper articles from local media has been collected. -Report and final report will be on the project website and TwinSpace. Dissemination: The project has been disseminated on the websites of schools, in local media, in professional meetings of teachers and students in the project exhibition products, e-twinning, brochures. We have focused on the active European citizenship by letting students communicate with host families before and after mobilities. Students have met the Major and the local administrators, in every country we visited, and they know the history and services that the town offers. Establishing Health Teams at every school has qualified the profiles of the schools. Students and parents took ownership, having representatives in the Team and great activities were made to the benefit of other students at school. The Health Team will remain and project activities will be continued even after the EU funds will end.

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