The project "Healthier Europeans - a healthier Community" was prepared in cooperation with 5 institutions providing adult education. Our partnership includes Poland, Slovakia, Latvia, Romania and Portugal. The partnership has been created to service in order to implement activity programs addressed to people 50+. The overall goal of the project is the implementation of 90 hours of classes for 30 students in each of the partner organizations. Classes are focused on the education of people 50+, how to care for a health and mental well-being. The classes have got own leading topics connected with the Erasmus+ Program and European identity. In the first phase of the project the educators will join to a short training program for employees. Each of sending organization will direct 8 educators to the mobility. They are: nordic walking trainer, relaxation exercises trainer, pilates trainer, conducting posture shaping exercises and small hand and foot motility exercises trainer, dietitian conducting workshops on "healthy equipment", internist doctor, physiotherapist improving perception of hearing and look and concentration of expectations, psychologist conducting classes developing communication skills and social competences. During the training, educators will exchange with good practices, will creat a 90-hour program of classes for students and accompanying events, and also will develope a set of leading topics. This program will be implemented by each partner institution as part of local activities in the project. to strengthen the effects of local activities, we will organize "learning mobility" for students - 5 meetings, one in each partner country. 5 students from each of sending organisation will participate in each meeting abroad. The hosts will teach the guests and local participants. They will focus to: 1) strengthen the motivation to develop habits to take care of mental health and well-being, 2) promote the Erasmus + Program and its educational offer and the idea of lifelong learning. 3) build the European identity of participants. The project will bring the following results: 1) implementing an innovative work program with 50+ students in each organization, 2) introduction of new methods, tools, approaches, etc. to the work of the above educators, 3) increase the professional competences of educators, 4) lead students 50+ to develop proper habits of caring for mental health and well-being, 5) promote the Erasmus + Program and its offer among project participants, 6) build / strengthen the European identity of project participants, 7) promote the idea of lifelong learning, 8) promote intergenerational learning. Each of the participating organizations will use the program and new approaches, methods, tools etc. also after the end of the project.
Our goal was to instill motivation in seniors to develop habits of taking care of their health and mental well-being and at the same time expand their competences. We also wanted to promote the Erasmus+ Program and its educational offer and the idea of lifelong learning and build the European identity of the participants. Moreover, we intended to achieve the greatest possible degree of social inclusion of project participants. We planned to achieve selected results through the implementation of the project. We wanted to create an e-book containing a description of the methods, tools, approaches used in the implementation of the project's tasks, lesson plans, instructional videos, and entries and publications in social media. We also wanted to achieve: - implementation of an innovative program of work with 50+ students in each organization, - introduction of new methods, tools, approaches, etc. to the work of the above-mentioned educators, - lead to increasing the professional competences of educators, - help students aged 50+ develop appropriate habits of taking care of their health and mental well-being, - promote the idea of lifelong learning, - promote intergenerational learning.
We applied for the HEALTHY 50+ project because our goal, as a leading organization, was to expand and develop the competences of educators and other employees of our organization and the organizations of our partners, which are adult educational institutions. We assumed that by exchanging knowledge, experiences and attitudes between educators, we would lead to an increase in the number of known and used methods, tools, approaches and solutions in working with people over fifty. As a consequence, this was to improve the quality of education in our organizations. In the project, we intended to focus on the health of people over 50. Our goal was in particular areas related to the ability to take care of one's health and mental well-being. We wanted the project's activities to also include counteracting social exclusion of the 50+ age group and including elements of intergenerational cooperation in the project. The project was to respond to the needs of educators and students 50+ from five organizations participating in the project.