By implementing the project, we aimed to strengthen the psychophysical condition of various school communities, mainly students aged 12 to 15 with various educational needs. We wanted the project participants to develop and strengthen selected key competences. While carrying out the project tasks, we wanted the students to improve the level of their linguistic competence - by communicating in English and in their native languages. In terms of social competence, we wanted to integrate students by teaching them cooperation, planning and implementing social activities, promoting health and ecology. Thanks to cultural activities, they became more aware recipients and participants of culture, as well as its creators. We also wanted them to become more open-minded, tolerant and empathetic through contact with different cultures. Through physical activity, ecological, social and civic activities, including health and culture, we ensured the exchange of ideas on counteracting isolation caused by the pandemic. We wanted students to use digital resources skilfully, enhancing digital competences by communicating online, preparing outputs of activities using the digital tools they had learned. We wanted to develope digital competences.
We applied for the project because of the worrying diagnostic results in the area of mental and physical health of our pupils, which were the consequence of the Covid pandemic. We were reaffirmed in our conviction of the need for the project by research on children and young people's lack of concentration, demotivation to learn, isolation and nutritional problems. The project responded to similar needs of two large schools to provide support in the areas of mental and physical health, socialization and reintegration. Our task was to rebuild peer bonds, to counteract the effects of the pandemic. We saw this opportunity in implementing educational solutions related to key competences, by initiating physical, cultural and social activities in the schools to activate and engage the students. Both schools were in a similar situation of pandemic discomfort and together we wanted to rebuild the wellbeing of teenagers and teachers.