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Promoting Diversity through Healthy Living

2019-1-BE05-KA105-0026382019Youth mobilityfinalized
Countries: BE|GE|LB|CZ|AZ|ES · Grant: €28,477
Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)Health and wellbeingIntercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning

Objectives

The project topic was selected because, Health is the most important determining factor of human life and the invaluable wealth. According to World Health Organization, the health - it is a physical, mental and social well-being, and not just the absence of disease and physical defects. The improvement of public health is the basic condition for the development of society; It is assumed that the different factors are affecting to the health status: - Lifestyle and conditions - 48-50%, - Environment - 20-22%, - Genetic factors - 18-20%, - The healthcare - 12-14%. This is one of the main reason, why our project is targeted to healthy life-style, and we want to use sport activities as a tool for it. The promotion of healthy lifestyle is playing the major role for reducing the morbidity and strengthening the public health of society. Many diseases can be prevented through healthy lifestyle promotion. The fact is that modern society has extended lifetime, but humans move less and less, eat a lot unhealthy junk food and adhere to bad habits. An inspiration for this YE project was the previous Erasmus+ project “Power of Diversity” implemented in Georgia to provide multicultural platform for participants, to strengthen intercultural cooperation and confront discrimination. After the discussion and assessment of project outcomes, we came up with the idea to broaden the topic and make a project (this time in another country) dealing with healthy life including nutrition in connection with diversities within EU or particular country. Through the study and comparison of lifestyles, traditions and values, the participants will uncover the commonalities which traverse all cultures. The participants will compare and contrast these cultures and through multicultural team building and team work they will reach a spirit of inter-cultural cooperation, compromise, awareness and appreciation of the diversities. The project will be carried out in 3 regions of Spain between 1.09 - 12.09.2019: Three different organizations will be involved in the implementation stage. Herencia (Toledo), Belmez (Cordoba) and Puerto Sagunto (Valencia). All of them offers participants different environment, traditions and food. articularly, one region is famous with producing wine and all the culture is related to vineyards; another one is special for its geographical conditions having beach and mountains near each other that helps us to offer participants physical activities; on the last location participants will have a chance to do water activities as the municipality has a huge reservoir; also our partners have strong ties with local associations that will help us to do some sport activities and make an event about the history of the region. Consequently, participants will work in a three different environment that provide different ground for sport, nutritionist and cultural activities. This will help them to grasp the complexity of healthy life and to be aware of how to take responsibility over their health. The main objectives of the project are determined according to what we have focus on: healthy lifestyle, nutrition and sport. They can be listed as following: - To raise up the awareness about sport and healthy life-style; To give participants possibility to learn and share their experience - Identify importance of being physically active for health. - To promote sport activities and healthy life-style between young people and not only; - To let youth workers explore new methodology how to promote healthy lifestyle on their local level; - Share culture and identify how culture and other environmental differences influence one’s opportunities to live a healthy life; - Find differences positive; - Emphasize the role of personal goals to have completely healthy lifestyle and to take a full responsibility over it; - Identify the ways of being healthy and sharing culture; - Be aware of what does healthy eating generally include; - Determine nutritional needs and its importance; - Identify the importance of sport and practice it; - Get information about types of physical activities and doing them at a right time in a right way. - To help encourage inter-cultural cooperation and appreciation of the diversities within EU and EUECC countries, - To see differences in a positive manner by advancing individual development. - To explore cultural tolerance in multicultural environment by the power of non-formal education - To promote the cultural diversity.

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