H.E.A.R.T. is a project focused on cooperation and the exchange of good practices between schools. It covers a variety of topics which link to a natural way of living, healthy life, becoming conscious consumers and producing respectively. The Project aims at developing a deeper understanding of the way in which how we can adapt the previous generations way of natural living to the new generation. By doing so, our objective is to educate teenagers about avoiding chemicals, healthy nutrition, producing yourself, becoming conscious consumers and being confident about overcoming the challenges of life respectively. Our aim is also to encourage the teenagers to change their unhealthy eating habits and to promote healthy food. All schools share the common vision of educating our youth to become more aware of an issue of worldwide importance, gain the sense of social responsibility, invent and produce new things, change their behaviour and share the information they get at school with their parents as well as with the community. The project aims: to instil children with healthy eating habits into children which will last through adulthood, to develop skills to compose nutrients by performing balanced and various snacks, to develop the basic skills, to make the students rediscover the ancient knowledge of natural living, to organize meetings, conferences, workshops and broadcasting for healthy living and natural food based on natural lifestyle, to spread the activities by organizing visits at central, regional and local levels, to promote CLIL through countries' history, geography, science, art and music, to develop the students’ abilities to be open-minded researchers and participants by collaborating with peers, to stimulate and improve the use of foreign languages, to promote the European Dimension in education, to build and develop the so-called 21st-century skills (critical thinking, problem-solving, research practices, creativity, artistry, curiosity, imagination, innovation, personal expression, planning, self-discipline, adaptability, initiative, leadership, teamwork, ICT literacy, entrepreneurialism) to support teachers in introducing cooperative and innovative practices, digital and non-digital. The partnership consists of 6 schools: Osnovna šola Litija, Slovenia Ali Kütük Ortaokulu, Turkey Escola Basica e Secundaria, Portugal Szkola Podstawowa Nr1 w Bedzinie, Poland Scoala Gimnaziala Speciala Nr 4, Romania Istituto Comprensivo Pascoli, Italy All participating schools provide education for students from the ages 11-14. The methods, going to lead to the achievement of the project's objectives, will be: Discovering learning, Classroom discussions, Cooperative learning, Hand-on learning, On-site Investigations, Case studies, Role-playing exercises, Computational learning. The main tool for communication between partners will be Twinspace chats, e-mails, video conferences, public blog, Skype and other messengers. We will use classic mail as well. During the project life cycle, 2 short-term joint staff training events and 5 short-term exchange of pupils are planned. In order to achieve the aims of the project, a variety of activities will be scheduled. Before the short-term exchanges, students will take part in chat sessions on Twinspace then after the exchanges, they will share their experiences on Twinspace. Also, before, during and after the exchanges, all partner schools will work collaboratively on eTwinning platform. In addition, students will be engaged in a number of other activities: creating a project logo, doing researches about natural way of life, participating in workshops, arranging campaigns about food waste, preparing tutorials, video and presentations, keeping portfolios, writing diaries, shooting documentaries, interviews, organizing charitable bazaars on different occasions, sport activities, competitions etc. Planned results and outcomes: • Newspapers, Food Hackers Handbook, Recipe Books, Documentaries, • Project Calendar, Logo, questionnaires and portfolios, • A collection of the stories, videos, folk songs, photos, recipes, • Project T-shirts, handcrafts, • Project Brochures, web pages, exhibitions, conferences, exchange of good practices, gained experiences during the project lifetime and multicultural dialogue • Exhibitions of photos, blogs, online-diaries and presentations, exhibitions of posters, video interviews, Local communities will be reached by a concrete dissemination activity based on specific actions the partnership will perform (distribution of the outcomes to schools and libraries in town, invitations to exhibitions and meetings, Inside the organisation, the project results will be introduced to Department teachers and parents' council. The dissemination strategy is designed to reach schools and educational institutions, cultural organizations, local and regional public bodies, curriculum developers, communities of end-users (teachers, students, parents).
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