“Healthy life, better life, longer life” is an innovative project aimed to raise awareness of healthy eating and physical exercise. Primary education students will be able to implement healthy attitudes in everyday life through conscious choices that they will make as we drive them step by step from nutrition knowledge to new behaviors and finally to the establishment of healthy attitudes. • By the end of the project students should be able: 1. To understand the need to promote their health through healthy eating, exercise and avoidance of bad habits 2. To respect their bodies and the environment 3. To appreciate the value of the traditional Mediterranean diet. 4. To become familiar with the stories, traditions, languages, cultures of other countries in Europe 5. To develop an interest in the study of foreign languages 6. To let them be aware of the importance of self-discipline and acceptance of diversity. Six primary education schools from Greece, Italy, Portugal, Romania, Bulgaria and Spain take part in this Erasmus + project. The activities of the project are mainly focused on the knowledge and the adoption of a healthy lifestyle by students. The aim is to foster their knowledge of Europe and different aspects of European culture and traditions. • Some of the activities to be carried out are the following: -Plays with themes from European tradition -create : a magazine in electronic form, a booklet with words related to healthy diet in both their mother tongue and English a QR Code book that will include data from cities or regions, a traditional recipe book and e-book, a vegetable garden at each school, a video titled "the little chefs" • With regard to the methodology to be used, it will be mainly practical with different techniques: Cooperative Learning, Scaffolding, Problem Solving, CLIL, ICT, Interdisciplinary. • The project will have an impact on all parties involved and associates at different levels: -Local/regional level: All project activities will build step by step a holistic educational environment for students regardless of nationality and social class. The entire project is focused on encouraging collaboration among schools involved in the project, local communities, partner associations and other institutions involved in implementing activities. -National level: Partner schools through the activities undertaken will co-operate with active organizations on national level such as universities, voluntary unions and government institutions. They will propagate further positive examples, teaching materials created in the project as examples of good practice for other educational institutions. Attendance of educational conferences or presentations, educational teaching materials with help of national education authorities will contribute to the propagation of these products, results, activities at macro-level. -European/International level: All project activities will contribute greatly to improving European curricula. Products and results will contribute to improving the efficiency of new education and report the current lifestyle of Europeans. The project will contribute to reinforcing the knowledge of the history of Europe by developing the students' European identity and encouraging a healthy lifestyle. Project will achieve links between different European partner organizations, which will be brought together by individuals from different social spheres. Furthermore, it will initiate an active and consistent dialogue on current issues related to Europeans healthy lifestyle. • Through "Healthy life, better life, longer life" the curricula of schools will be enriched. In particular: -Pupils: 1. Strengthen their basic skills that will ensure them in the future even better job opportunities 2. Communicate in other languages, share experiences, learn to cooperate 3. Realise that it is necessary to promote our health through healthy eating, exercise and avoidance of bad habits 4. Succeed in being European citizens who will consciously follow a healthy lifestyle and spread it to future generations. -Teachers will enhance their professionalism and exchange experiences and good practices -All other people involved in various sectors (organizations, universities, volunteer groups, civil authorities) through lessons, comparisons and meetings, will contribute by communicating a wealth of stories and facts of considerable importance and will also receive new ideas and feedback useful to their daily work -Parents and other local community representatives will increase their awareness of being European citizens,. In this way they will become more active in promoting a healthy lifestyle for themselves and their children. Approximately 2000 persons will indirectly benefit from or will be the target of the activities organised by the project.
The project "Healthy Life, Better Life, Longer Life" with code: 2018-1-EL01-KA201-047760 and with a duration of two years (01/10 / 2018-30 / 9/2020) included the following six (6) schools : • 1st Primary School of Efkarpia-Greece (Coordinator school) • Osnovna skola Stjepan Radic Oprisavci-Croatia • 107 Primary school "Khan Krum"-Bulgaria • Scoala Gimnaziala Nr. 16 Take Ionescu-Romania • CEIP AMBRA-Spain • Agrupamento Escolas A Lã e a Neve-Portugal Analytically: A. Two (2) TPM were performed: The first one in Efkarpia Greece: 23,24,25/01/2019 with the participation of 12 teachers (two from each school). The tasks were divided for each school, the LTTA dates (C1 and C2), the next TPM and the activities of the first school year were planned, the way of communication, the creation of etwinning and the selection of the logo. The second one in Covilha Portugal 05,06.07/ 06/2019 with the participation of 12 teachers (two from each school). We did the review and the evaluation of the first year of the project and the planning of the next four LTTAs (C3, C4, C5, C6) and also the last TPM in September 2020. B. Four of the six LTTAs were carried out with the participation of teachers and students as follows: C1: Covilha-Portugal (25/02/2019-28/02/2019) with the transfer of 23 teachers and students. C2: Garcin-Croatia (25/03/2019-28/03/2019) with the transfer of 23 teachers and students. C3: Sofia-Bulgaria (14/10/2019-17/10/2019) with the transfer of 24 teachers and students. C4: Timisoara-Romania (18/11/2019-21/11/2019) with the transfer of 25 teachers and students. The next two planned mobilizations (LTTA) did not take place because of the pandemic covid19, as governments banned the movement of teachers and students outside the countries and also the schools remained closed: C5: Pego-Spain (02/03 / 2020-05 / 03/2020) with the transfer of 23 teachers and students and C6: Efkarpia- Greece (01/06 / 2020-04 / 06/2020) with the transfer of 26 teachers and students. In the four movements that took place, the programs were fully observed as mentioned in the application and the planned visits to museums and other places were made with the help of guides. On the first day there was always a welcoming ceremony from the schools with the participation of the parents' associations, representatives from the Education Offices and the local self-government, while on the last day it took place the certificate awarding ceremony. The host schools prepared workshops with various activities in which teachers, students and in some of them parents also participated. In each LTTA the students of all six schools presented a power point they had prepared. Each time there was a different issue. The ceremonial visits took place in the Town Halls of the municipalities, where a very warm welcoming and we did an exchange of gifts. The children were hosted in families of the school students, except for the children of Spain and Greece whose parents did not allow it and they stayed in the same hotel with the accompanying teachers. Οn this project great importance was given to the involvement except of the teachers and the students of our schools also the parents, the local factors (associations) and the local government. Through the media and online newspapers, all the activities of the program were diffused through posts and press releases on social media (project blog, school websites, Facebook and Etwinning). (All the 19 monthly activities have been posted on the etwinning/twinspase/ pages) and on the blog of the project as well . Finally, it should be noted that a six-month extension was requested from the coordinating school to carry out later the two transfers (LTTA C5, C6) and the last TPM in the hope that the schools will be open and also the transfers will be allowed. The Greek National Agency (I.K.Y.) gave us the approval of the extension until 31/03/2021, but unfortunately due to the pandemic of covid19 we could not do any transfer. In conclusion, we could say that the project was going very well with partners who wanted to work hard, with fun and excitement. Our cooperation was impeccable and we would dare to say that even once was there the slightest disagreement or any tension. On the contrary, mutual understanding, mutual respect and equality between the partners prevailed. But the pandemic of the covid 19 brought a major upheaval to our plans and programs and did not allow us to complete the project as we would like it to be. Nevertheless, there is a general desire from all of us to continue our cooperation on this project even after its completion. For this reason it will remain open, as well as the etwinning. links: etwinning https://healthybetterlonger.blogspot.com/ facebook: Healthylife Betterlife