The early acquisition of healthy and active lifestyles has a significant effect on the attitudes towards the lives of our students. The school plays a fundamental role in the transmission of knowledge in a homogeneous way among the students and their families. In this way the school can promote a culture of "well-being" that can have immediate effect on the quality of our students’ lives, with a significant impact on the whole community. The objectives of the project intend to bring students to modify their lifestyles through new behaviours that will be an integral part of the proposed activities. Furthermore, the project aims to enable students to experience the sense of belonging to the European Union, through exchange with peers from other nations. The experiencing of different cultures will also give our students the opportunity to improve their knowledge of foreign languages as communication will always take place in an international context. Another key objective of the project is the comparison and exchange of teachers who can compare good practices and deepen the themes of the project through short periods of job shadowing at partner schools. The main target group of the project are pupils and students from the partner schools aged between 10 and 17 years. There will be mobility in person for small groups of students and virtual mobility through Skype and via the eTwinning platform. The project includes activities in the individual schools, which will be shared during the four short-term exchanges of groups of pupils. Events that involve families and local authorities will be organized so that the whole community can contribute to the well-being of our young people, with a fundamental impact on the quality of their future lives. An "Excercise Calendar" will be created to hang in each class with simple and short physical activities to be performed before, during or after each lesson for the students' activation or relaxation, after a long time spent sitting at the desk. Advertising spots or photostories will be created promoting Fair Play and inclusive sports, where also people with disabilities will take part. Since we believe that the surrounding environment determines the well-being of the students, too, we will create together a story about youth problems; each school will write a part of the text, which will be carried out by the successive school up to the final; then the text will be presented together on stage at the end of the last mobility of the students. Four heats of the Olympic Games will be organized, in which the teams will compete in games where skilful and cunning are more important than the physical strength. Team spirit and mixed nations teams will strengthen each participant's self-esteem and knowledge of his or her important role for the whole group. The students will be able to try out new or unknown sports and meet psychomotor experts who teach them the correct posture to keep at their age during the long lessons spent at school or at home studying. They will investigate the origin of the food they eat at school and at home and will discover the pleasure of spending some time doing sports with their parents and friends. Experts in different areas dealing with the topic of our project like addiction, nutrition or different kinds of sports will contribute to the improvement of our students' and teachers' lifestyles. The results of the project will be made public internationally through the eTwinning platform, the homepage of the partner schools and the official website of the project, where the accessibility to all products and materials developed by the partner schools, will be guaranteed in the two years of collaboration and even after the closure of the project. At a local level, each school is responsible for disseminating the results achieved through community events, local newspapers and television networks and the initiatives of the competent school offices. All the proposed activities within our project “Fit for school – Fit for life” aim to put the students at the centre of the action. The students will be the protagonists who, stimulated by the teachers, will collaborate with peers to find solutions, solve problems and make new proposals in order to improve their attitude towards school and life.
The early acquisition of healthy and correct lifestyles has a significant effect on the health of our pupils. The school plays a fundamental role in the transmission of knowledge in a homogeneous way between pupils and through them reaches all the families of the community. In this way, the school can promote a culture of "well-being" and healthy lifestyles that can improve the quality of life of our students right away, but also influence their future choices.This is the main idea of the “Fit for School-Fit for Life” project. The project has tried to develop the fundamental competences of all the people involved, the social inclusion and the training of teachers through exchange and comparison, developing the theme of "well-being" from many points of view. Teams of students aged between 9 and 15 from partner schools and their teachers were involved. On some occasions, such as the events open to the whole community that each partner school has tried to organize especially during the mobilities, all pupils and teachers of the schools have been involved, often also families and officials of education and administration. Numerous activities were organized in individual schools to prepare students for events where they would collaborate online. In this way the students presented themselves to the meetings prepared and competent, making an efficient and effective contribution to the elaboration of the materials and contents provided. All the distant exchange took place through our Twinspace, which has increasingly become our virtual classroom, especially after the lockdown in March 2020. We used the "Chatroom" to communicate, the "Twinboard" and the "Forum" to express our opinions on some key issues of the project, the "Survey" to vote together and choose the best solutions, the "Blog" to tell us about the events of our daily life that were relevant to the project, the "Videoconference" for our online meetings and the "Pages" in which to collect the phases / activities of the project and contribute to the group work. An "Excercise Calendar" was created to hang in each class with simple and short physical activities to be done before or after each lesson for the relaxation of the students, after a long time spent sitting at the desk or to promote concentration before a test. Progressive advertising spots or photo stories have been developed in favour of Fair Play and inclusive sport, including for people with disabilities or disadvantages, and against cyberbullying. We proposed to the students to create a theatrical text on juvenile distress; each partner school wrote a part of the text in the Twinspace while the final and title were proposed by all four schools together and with online voting on the Twinspace, the most captivating ending and title were chosen. The original idea was to bring the play on stage during the last mobility in Austria. Because of the pandemic we had to cancel the last mobility in person and turn it into a virtual activity, we chose to create a cartoon to build together online. The cartoon "Just one click" can be found on the FB eTwinning page of Trentino Alto Adige and on the FB page of Europedirect Trento. We wrote an online magazine together during the lockdown, to tell about our life during that difficult period. At each mobility the students challenged each other in the "Olympic Games", in which the teams had to compete in games of physical skill or cunning. The fourth round of the "Olympic Games" was cancelled due to force majeure and transferred online. The kids experimented with new sports, met experts who made them reflect on the correct posture to keep during their study, on the principles of healthy eating and on the risks of cyberbullying and addiction. Many teachers of the partner schools collaborated in the realization of the didactic activities and some teachers visited the partner schools for a short period of job shadowing to find out more about different teaching methods and compare and contrast them with the ones used back home. Watching best-practice examples in various subjects and classes improved the teachers’ competences and skills. All the materials produced and the documentation of the salient events are accessible in our Twinspace and on the school homepages of all partner schools. Among the most significant long-term benefits, we highlight the development of the fundamental skills of future European citizens through comparison with different cultures and traditions, the improvement of the linguistic and digital skills of students and teachers, the acquisition of useful information and experiences to improve well-being at home and at school. Teachers have acquired new teaching methods that favour collaboration and teamwork, putting the interests of all those involved as a group in the foreground rather than that of the individual, developing a flexible curriculum that facilitates the inclusion and individualisation of the curriculum.