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Healthy life 4 Healthy Environment

2022-3-MK01-KA152-YOU-0000993792022Mobility of young peopleongoing
Countries: MK|TR|DE|IT|BG|RS · Grant: €11,845
Physical and mental health, well-beingCommunity developmentEnvironment and climate change

Objectives

Today, with the modern way of living young people are getting more and more connected with the electronic devices and are living in a virtual reality. Modern culture does not enforce healthy lifestyle and connection with nature, therefore the people show a significant decrease on the level of physical activity, and on the other hand, the consummation of fast and unhealthy food, stress accumulation, frustration are increasing, posing a question the body image. According to the last researches of EUROSTAT, statistics showed that the condition of overweight and obesity were rising rapidly in most EU States. On the other hand cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in the EU, and the second most common cause were neoplasms. Mental and behavioral disorders such as Alzheimer's disease and intentional self harm was an external cause of morbidity and mortality. It is namely these trends uniting INNOVA LAB, North Macedonia and nongovernmental organizations from four countries (Bulgaria, Turkey, Germany, Italy), were facing the same challenge, in the idea of creation and implementation of youth exchange, which to contribute for improving healthy lifestyle of young people through: increasing the awareness of benefits from physical exercises, healthy nutrition, homemade food, acquiring skills for improvement of the psychophysical health, raising awareness for healthy environment and good practices for green behaviors. “Healthy life 4 Healthy Environment” was organized by INNOVA LAB, North Macedonia in partnership with 4 NGOs: Bulgarian Youth Forum (Bulgaria), LIDOSK (Turkey), Özdemirs Jugend und Sport Academy (Germany), and Arte e Cultura Sociale(Italy). The total number of participants was 32, as follows: 24 young participants, 6 group leaders and 2 facilitators. The youth exchange was held from 20.06.2023 -25.06.2023 in Bitola, North Macedonia, giving the opportunity to 24 young people from North Macedonia, Bulgaria, Turkey, Germany, and Italy an exchange experience and gain knowledge for healthy lifestyle, healthy environment and practices to implement it at local, national and European level. With the realization of the "Healthy life 4 Healthy Environment" project, the partner organizations aimed to promote good practices and experiences related to the prevention of illnesses, caused by lack of physical exercise and bad nutrition habits, to promote the benefits of healthy and home-made food, to improve young people`s general psycho-physical and health competencies through walking, riding a bike, going on mountains, raise awareness of GMO foods and ingredients, create a healthy lifestyle guide, improving green behavior of young people and to protect the environment for better and healthy life. By involving young people from different parts of Europe, exchanges of experience and building up of knowledge in the field of health , healthcare and environment protection were achieved. Participants were encouraged to identify problems in their communities and developed an approach to addressing them by sharing good practice and experience through examples of healthy lifestyle and healthy environment in different countries. "Healthy life 4 Healthy Environment" included a variety of role-plays, discussions, reflections, formal and non formal meetings through which the participants acquired important competences for their personal development and health. Through their future appearances, they promoted the results of the "Healthy life 4 Healthy Environment" project and helped spread its messages to young people.

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