“We choose Health” is a partnership Erasmus+ K229 of 5 schools from Italy, Romania, Turkey Greece and Bulgaria who have developed a common project that responds to the common needs of the five schools: the necessity of awareness of the importance of preserving health through healthy eating and a healthy lifestyle for young pupils. It supports the European plan (2015-2020) for healthy nutrition and therefore reduces obesity in children and adolescents, the micronutrient deficit in removing unhealthy eating habits. The project is made for 2 years, during which a lot of events take place in the school, in local community and abroad (245 persons). The aim of the project is a theme that concerns all European schools therefore the project's activities will be carried out in mixed teams of pupils and teachers from 5 countries. We will also treat the importance of physical movement, plant protection (by planting, sowing and caring) alongside foreign language communication activities, improving IT knowledge by developing products 3D, producing films, initiating 3 eTwinning projects with others schools from Europe, to continue the similar project’s topics. Objectives: - students' education to a healthy food, reducing the products consumption that cause obesity and other diseases with 40 - 50%, focused attention on a traditional cuisine; in school will be creating the Health Education Lab for project's activities and will last at least 2 years after the project ends; - education for Plant protection as a vital life component, understanding of the importance of plant organically cultivated in school yard or out of it, through activities involving 80% of target group; - to strengthen foreign language and communication skills of pupils from the target group and teachers by participating in 5 LTTAs and 1 International Seminar and by setting up mixed student groups to produce the project's final product - to create networks through joint projects in eTwinning between our schools, by working together on same activities now and in others future projects, to exchange good practice examples about the daily school life, school teaching methods, school management and others. Target groups The main group consists of pupils aged 9-14. Other categories of people involved in the project are teachers, parents, members of local community, local authorities and NGOs. Project’s products made by partnership's team-works: Logo, posters, calendars, movies 3D “Celebration of World Health Day 2020”, brochures (“Seeding and planting”, “Traditional dishes and sport”, “Computer games can prevent obesity”, “Become ETwinner”), Project’s E-magazine, Webpage, Blog, Facebook, eTwinning accounts and DVD. Subjects to address will be included in schools’ curricula, as science, sports, informatics, foreign languages, civic education, arts, art crafts, music, dancing class Activities and methodology Curricular and extracurricular activities in school, local community and abroad (International seminar, exhibitions, Celebrations and workshops, etc) There will be 6 LTTA when 245 persons (182 pupils and 63 teachers) will benefit of this project mobilities. We will involve in project activities pupils, teachers, pupil’s families, local authorities and communities members and NGOs. Results and Impact The benefits of the project will be recorded individually, through the school, the partnership, the local community (authorities, NGOs); - students will become aware of the importance of maintaining health through the type of food, sports and lifestyle, combining computer and physical activities, team up with foreign students with whom they will communicate in foreign languages, learn to behave democratically, tolerant and non-discriminatory, building friends that will continue after the project ends. Students will also improve their IT skills, project management (these will be involved in all stages of the project - preparation, implementation, monitoring, evaluation, dissemination and tracking) and through direct participation in the three eTwinning projects that this project generates. Project staff will improve ICT skills, languages, about European projects. Local community, authorities and NGO will play an important role in this partnership by supporting project activities in school (meetings, seminars, workshops) and outside school through advertising and dissemination activities. Dissemination and follow-up We will provide long-term information in Erasmus+ Dissemination Platform, Mobility tools, eTwinning platform, Website, blog, Facebook, movies, brochures, reports to scholastic inspectorate, National Agencies, mayoralty, mass media. Project's Sustainability Plan foresees that at least 15 schools in local communities should be directly informed about the project and invited to school to participate in information sessions organized by project staff.
“We choose health” was a partnership Erasmus+ K229 of 5 schools from Italy, Romania, Turkey, Greece and Bulgaria who developed a common project that responded to the common need of the five schools: the necessity of awareness of the importance of preserving health through healthy eating and a heathy lifestyle for young pupils. It supported the European plan (2015-2020) for healthy nutrition and therefore reduced obesity in children adolescents, the micronutrient deficit in removing unhealthy eating habits. The project was made for 2 years, but because of the pandemic Covid-19 we had a third year this project. In these 3 years a lot of events took place in the school, in local community, abroad (245 persons). Because of the pandemic we had some virtual meetings (more than the planned ones) and lots of teachers and pupils could have the possibility to participated to the organized activities. The aim of the project was a theme that concerned all European schools; therefore, the activities were carried out in mixed teams of pupils and teachers from 5 countries. We treated the importance of physical movement, plant protection (we planted, we sew and cared alongside foreign language communication activities, improved ICT knowledge by developing products 3D, produced films; we initiated 3 eTwinning projects with other schools from Europe to continue the similar project’s topics. Objectives: - Students’ education to healthy food, reducing the products consumption that cause obesity and other diseases with 40-50%, focused attention on a traditions cuisine: at school we created the Health Education Lab for project’s activities. - We increased the education for plant protection as a vital life component, understanding of the importance of plant organically cultivated in school yard or out of it, through activities involving 80% of target group. - We strengthened foreign languages and communication skills of pupils from the target group and teachers by participating in 5 LTTAs and 1 International Seminar and by setting up mixed student groups to produce the project’s final product. - We treated the importance of physical movement - We created networks through joint projects in eTwinning among our schools, by working together on same activities now and in other future projects, to exchange good practice examples about daily school life, school teaching methods, school management and others. - TARGET GROUPS - The main groups consisted of pupils aged 9-14. Other categories of people involved in the project were teachers Partnership’s team made lots of project’s products: Logo, posters, calendars, movies “Celebration of World Health Day 2020”, brochures (“Sending and planting”, “Traditional dishes and sport”, “Computer games can prevent obesity”, “Become eTwinner”), Project’s E-magazine, Webpage, Blog, Facebook, e-Twinning accounts and DVDs. Subjects were included in schools’ curricula, as science, sports, informatics, foreign languages, civic education, arts, arts and crafts, music, dancing class. ACTIVITIES AND METHODOLOGY All the teams of the partnership organized curricular and extracurricular activities at school, involved local community and abroad (International seminar, exhibitions, Celebrations, workshops, etc.) We planned 6 LTTA and 245 persons (in presence 285 persons:182 pupils and 63 teachers, and virtually more than 2,000) could benefit of the project mobilities. We involved in project’s activities teachers, pupils, pupils’ families, local authorities and communities' members and NGOs. RESULTS AND IMPACT: The benefits of the project were recorded individually, through the school, the partnership, the local community authorities, NGOs. Students have become aware of the importance of maintain health through the type of food, sports and lifestyle, combining computer and physical activities tam up with foreign students with whom they communicated in foreign languages, learned to behave democratically, became more tolerant and non-discriminator, built friendships that have been continuing after the end of the project. Students improved their ICT skills, project management abilities (involved in all stages of the project – preparation, implementation, monitoring, evaluation, dissemination and tracking) and through direct participation in the e-Twinning projects generated by the project itself. Project staff improved ICT skills, knowledge of foreign languages and European projects. Local community, authorities, NGO, played an important role in this partnership by supporting project activities at school (meetings, seminars, workshops) and outside school through advertising and dissemination activities. DISSEMINATION AND FOLLOW UP We provided long-term information in Erasmus+ Dissemination Platform, Mobility tools, eTwinning platform, Website blog, Facebook movies, brochures, reports to scholastic inspectorate, National Agencies, mayoralty, mass media.