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„Healthy food, good life"

2020-1-PL01-KA105-0802792020Youth mobilityfinalizedGood practice
Countries: PL|RS|IT|MK · Grant: €19,544.97
Creativity and cultureResearch and innovationHealth and wellbeing

Objectives

The project – ‘Healthy food, good life’ had been initiated by the youth in the age 16-25 from Poland, Italy Serbia and Estonia who came toward to partner organizations and proposed organizing a workshop with the purpose to make variety of people aware of the need of proper nutrition in their life, consequences of consuming highly processed foods excessively and gain proper nutrition habits. However due to social and political factors we had to change one of the partners (from Estonia) into organization from North Macedonia. Those 4 groups had a purpose to keep the healthy habits and to consolidate the use of healthy food recipes and collect them in a multimedia cookbook. The young people were engaged in propagating the knowledge and experience in the field of healthy nutrition with the main rule: ‘I learn about proper nutrition to live’, realizing that the power of the influence on young people of the knowledge shared by the peers mainly by means of social media. They were interested in propagating the rules of proper nutrition among variety of people and showing the world ways how to lead healthy life. They were willing to draw attention about essential points of unhealthy food and its influence on human organism, civilization diseases connected with too much processed food. Participants of the project were aware of the fact that by educating about proper nutrition patterns they could permanently change the reality and shape nutrition habits of future generations. In the project took part 27 persons and 12 of them had geographical, economical or cultural obstacles. The idea occurred due to internal needs of the participants’ staying in touch via social media and belief that every human, despite the age, the place of living, social status, could change life of European community by propagating ideas of healthy nutrition. Our Foundation was willing to collaborate in carrying out such an important project and support the youth in achieving their goals. Projects about ecology and healthy food are important for our workers and extremaly essential in our process of educating. The project was not easy and required huge engagement and work but the youth was ready to set ambitious goals and face them. The main purpose of the project was to organize in Łódź the youth exchange in the period 14 - 24.05.2022 from 4 countries and preparing a multimedia cookbook containing healthy recipes. Detailed goals were: exploring the rules of proper nutrition, problems of modern world connected with excessive consumption of processed food including too much sugar, salt and unhealthy fat, supporting international cultural heritage, propagating healthy style of life. During the exchange the participants got to know the culture of other countries by broadening knowledge of national cuisine and nutritional traditions. The project purpose was also to influence significantly participants in broadening their knowledge of medicine and chemistry since they got to know the relationship between healthy nutrition and personal health. By participating in the project the youth developed language competences by getting acquainted with English vocabulary from medicine (names of some diseases), chemistry (laboratory equipment and chemical reactions taking place during experiments) and culinary field as a part of the project. Participants got to know creative forms of a drawing, writing narration and preparing multimedia presentation and rules of teamwork during preparing a multimedia cookbook. Another very essential purpose of the project was developing the process of learning, personal development, motivating the youth to active participation in all forms of education in future, mainly including creative thinking. The purpose of the project was also encouraging participants to prepare healthy and nutritious meals, making them aware that common cooking could also bring fun and taking care of their own health and food that we consume might be a possible path of future professional career. The need of the youth, initiating the project, was also to get to know new cultures, gaining new skills from chemistry, medicine and cuisine, development of multimedia skills by means of ICT tools, development of interests especially in the range of healthy style of life, increase of language competences.

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