The project is based on the idea of preparing young people of school age for difficulties such as stress, pressure to perform and personal setbacks in life. These strategies are to be taken from sports education science, home economics for healthy eating and the psychological field. This basic idea of empowering young people stems from the current needs of many students. On behalf of the Ludwig-Maximilian-University Of Munich on 28.-Psych. Yvonne Schiller stated on 28.02.2011 that 50% of the disease "depression" begins in childhood. In adolescents between the ages of 14 and 17, the disease remains undetected at first, and in adulthood it is almost 50% who have this disease, but this is never diagnosed. So the question arises as to how to combat the triggers and causes of mental illness. After the first well-founded movement therapy programs from 1970, it is noticeable in Germany that almost all psychiatric-psychotherapeutic or psychosomatic clinics in Germany offer sports and movement therapy measures. Already in ancient Greece, the goal of aristocratic education was an optimal mental and physical maturation. Physical exercises and mental activities thus played a major role for Greek intellectuals in the formation of personality. In almost 2000 years, the functionality of the body in connection with the mind has not changed. Only the external circumstances and influences are different. The ability to strengthen our minds through physical exercise and activity is anchored in our biological system and still works. It makes no sense to wait for such diseases to develop in order to cure them at the expense of the state, which is usually only partially linked to success. The responsibility of school education is to prepare students for possible difficulties in life and to give them strategies, which allows them to overcome the hurdles themselves. The aim of this Erasmus project is therefore to make pupils understand the close link between sport, spirit and healthy eating and to give them the opportunity to find their own way of success by giving adolescents the opportunity to succeed. correct strategies. The aim of the project is to help participants achieve a stronger self-confidence, develop strategies to overcome the difficulties in their lives. Another major point of this project is the nutritional hazards which are uncovered and show alternatives for how to achieve a balanced diet on a daily basis. In addition, this project will help to eliminate the negative autosuggestive thoughts of the participants and replace them with positive self-influence. Participants should find out how to deal with defeats, draw from these defeats to succeed. moreover, each goal should be well perceived in the future as a challenge from several stages, which individual steps step by step should be mastered. A total of 6 schools from Europe are participating in this project: Leonardo da Vinci Gesatmschule Hückelhoven / Germany; Scoala Gimnaziala"Zaharia Stancu from Rosiorii de Vedi / Romania; Escola Bésica e Secundria da Ponta do Sol / Portugal; Istituto Comprensivo Mazzarino / Italy; 7th Gymnasium of Kavala / Greece; EPLEFPA LOT ET GARONNE / France. 1. Helathy food in school In this activity, the part-hemers learn how to handle healthy foods. In addition, responsibility should be conveyed with one's own diet. We learn to cook healthy and put off unhealthy habits 2. Body and soul Participants should understand and independently discuss the close connection between the mental state (here: mind) and the physical condition (here: body). A healthy body promotes a healthy mental state, which means that if an individual is physically well, then that person will also achieve a better general condition mentally. This theoretical assertion is to be examined during the meeting and correlations are to be proven in a comprehensible and transparent scientific manner. 3. Milestones At this meeting, the participants are to overcome two major challenges, one sporting and one spiritual, in mixed groups, by means of strategic thinking. The mindset behind this term "stage goals" is called strategic thinking. In the meeting it is necessary to find out and describe which strategy you are using in order to achieve a biggoal andthus solve theproblem. 4. No retreat, no surrender In this meeting, participants learn that defeats are part of life. Defeats must not be judged negatively, but must always benefit from every defeat. Participants learn the important strategy of getting stronger from defeats and never giving up. 5. Sugar - the legal drug In order to avoid this negative development, we show in our meeting the dangers of sugar and show alternatives how we can replace the "white drug". 6. Autosuggestion - the positive self-talk This strategy should be actively executed and discussed in the meeting. The goal of this activity is to erase the negative autosuggestions from the participants' brains and replace them with positive thoughts.
The project implementation was based very closely on the planning of the project and was carried out according to plan as best as possible. Combating the anticipated difficulties such as stress management, reducing the pressure to perform and combating setbacks have already become apparent in some cases during the execution of the project. In general, however, it must be said that these are long-term processes that must be evaluated over time. The positive effects of the project must therefore continue to be monitored through surveys and reviews. The active meetings started from May 2nd, 2022 to May 6th, 2022 in Germany due to corona. Unfortunately, due to the pandemic, we were only able to hold online meetings up to that date, but this gave us the opportunity to prepare meticulously for the meeting. After welcoming the partner schools and the individual school presentations, we set about implementing the project goals. The overarching goal of “Healthy food in school” was prepared by the German school according to the project. The aim was to give the students alternative, healthy recipes that would make their everyday lives easier and lead a healthy life. For this purpose, all partner schools brought the recipes from their home countries and cooked them in mixed groups, so that teachers outside the German school also learned to cook these recipes. The recipes were later compiled into a recipe book. At the next meeting in France, the overarching theme was "Sugar - the legal drug". Workshops on sugar as a food were held here and the health risks were pointed out. The workshops covered, among other things, natural sugar and industrially produced sugar. As part of these workshops, participants visited a bee farm to see how sugar is produced naturally. Workshops were also held showing how to bake deserts and sweets with sugar substitutes. The follow-up meeting took place in Romania, which focused on motivation and self-suggestion. The activities “My Motivation” and “Self-suggestion Strategies” were based on making students aware of the connection between body and mind and the power of self-suggestion. Students expressed interest in these activities, expressed their personal thoughts and feelings, and participated in conscious meditation exercises that resulted in positive statements such as, “I am strong, I will succeed!” Short videos were made about it demonstrated how positive thinking influences people's activities and outcomes in practical situations. They concluded that both positive and negative formulations have a direct impact on their mental and physical health. The theme "No retread, no surrender" was then held in Greece, where the students first had to show their creativity by creating comics. They were supposed to invent a hero who enforces his will through adversity and achieves success, i.e. who doesn't give up. The topic was also discussed in the cultural context of ancient Greece. Cultural memorials were visited that had already applied the qualities discussed in the context of the project thousands of years ago. Sports activities should encourage students and teachers not to give up and to keep getting back up when faced with adversity. The topic of healthy cuisine and healthy cooking was taken up again at this meeting and consolidated through workshops. In Portugal it was now the turn of the topic “Milestones”. Here the participants were made aware of the importance of milestones by having to achieve sub-goals in various workshops and activities and documenting them. You realized that achieving a small goal is a significant step in the right direction and giving up in the face of a mountain of challenges would be wrong. These activities were carried out and documented through extreme sports. The participants also created a video on the topic of milestones in 5 groups of 6 people. In the last meeting, the students prepared videos on the topic of autosuggestion. Beforehand, the students were supposed to use the technique of autosuggestion over a long period of time and this was then recorded in videos. There were mixed results from these videos, but most students noticed positive changes. Challenges and wishes to change one's own life were thereby achieved (desires for achievement, self-confidence, etc.). The teachers repeated the exercises in workshops on site.