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An apple a day keeps the doctor away

2020-1-TR01-KA105-0846422020Youth mobilityfinalized
Countries: TR|RO|EL|IT|SI · Grant: €16,490
Social/environmental responsibility of educational institutionsHealth and wellbeingIntercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning

Objectives

As a result of the research conducted by the World Health Organization, the probability of obesity, diabetes-Ia, diabetes-IIa disease occurring in adulthood is 45% higher in individuals who did not acquire healthy eating habits as children. Thus, the concept that constitutes one of the dynamics of our project has been to ensure that children become more familiar with healthy eating routines under the leadership of parents and teachers in Aksaray, which is among the 10 cities that take the most inadequate precautions in the Ministry of Health's studies called Nutrition Friendly Schools, which is desired to reach international awareness starting from the local level. Because healthy nutrition plays an important role on the physical, social, emotional development and behavior of the child. According to the researches, it has become clear that the necessity of establishing a healthy framework for eating habits at a young age in our country, which is in the 1st place in Europe in terms of obesity and 15th in men, has emerged. In addition, other important factors that pushed us to carry out the project, according to the 2018 data of the World Health Organization (WHO), the rate of unhealthy nutrition and fast food eating has increased by 30-40% in the last 10 years in Europe and, accordingly, Obesity, one of the most important problems in Europe in recent times, increase in health problems, to make an increase in the number of schools that are friendly to healthy nutrition in Aksaray, for children to have information about healthy foods in national and international context, for parents to apply nutritional habits containing the right nutritional values to their children, for children to recognize foods in innovative ways and to regulate their eating habits. By realizing our project on 19-25 November 2021, our target audience, the young audience, is conscious, knowledgeable, healthy and It is a place where joint groups, stakeholders and target audience will always take an active role, aiming for them to become prudent individuals, for non-governmental organizations in the field of health to cooperate with decision-makers with more interactive methods, for teachers and parents of children to be aware of health and healthy nutrition. One of the most important motivations in the realization of our project was to convey the contents and promotions of vitamins, minerals and nutrients that are necessary for children to consume, encouraging health and nutrition by conducting studies. Our project was carried out in an environment where cultural interaction is intense, with the whole of the activities that will include the motto of "Active life and healthy nutrition are the foundation of health" used by the Ministry of Health, where children can learn about foods, which foods should be eaten and how often children should eat, and ideas that will facilitate their making arrangements in the school canteens.Other important points emphasized by our project are to create a wide-ranging awareness in the field of health, one of the priority topics of the Erasmus+ program, to emphasize the social-environmental responsibility of educational institutions and social groups, to eliminate the concepts such as racism and discrimination, which overlap with the learning outcomes of the Erasmus+ platform, in an intercultural environment, European Citizenship adoption of the concept, encouraging young people to learn different languages, especially the languages of the countries that will participate in our project in Europe in a multilingual environment, intercultural learning, being a part of teamwork in cooperation, active involvement of people of all ages in the learning process with the principle of lifelong learning, and active healthy life was encouraged.

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