4Steps4Health Erasmus Project
General information for the 4Steps4Health Erasmus Project
Project Title
4Steps4Health
Project Key Action
This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices
Project Action Type
This project related with this action type : School Exchange Partnerships
Project Call Year
This project’s Call Year is 2020
Project Topics
This project is related with these Project Topics: Natural sciences; Health and wellbeing; Social dialogue
Project Summary
All participating project schools would like to see itself as a progressive school, where all students with their individual backgrounds are welcome and receive education that gives them good chances in finding a career, but also opportunities for further university education. In a local and global society that is rapidly internationalising, the implementation of this goal requires a school curriculum that anchors internationalisation and teachers with international competences that strengthen the internationally oriented profile of the school. Another important goal is to enable teachers to implement digital media and learning platforms more intensively in their lessons and to use them for international exchange. The project encourages the use of digital tools and demonstrates the way in which ICT can be used to make students appreciate the educational value.
The modern technology-driven world with ever shorter reaction times places diverse and intensive demands on all of us – both in our professional and private lives. We can best meet these demands by becoming aware of them, adapting mentally and physically and learning how to deal with the resulting pressure. This insight forms the starting point for our project “4Steps4Health”, which aims to educate students about health. Keeping healthy is a lifelong process and in order to achieve a comprehensive physical, mental and social well-being it is necessary to be aware of one’s needs and living conditions and to be able to cope with or even change them. In this sense, health is to be understood as an essential part of everyday life and not as a primary goal of life. Health stands for a positive concept that emphasizes the importance of social and individual resources for health in the same way as physical abilities.
Lack of exercise, unhealthy eating habits and increased stress levels are a global problem, especially among children and adolescents. The first step on the path to exercise is the most important and brings measurable health benefits. Sport also has a positive effect on body weight, creates a change from the daily grind, reduces stress and increases self-confidence. A healthy diet, be it for everyday life or for sports, brings a better body feeling and reduces overweight. Relaxation counteracts the pressure of everyday life due to school commitments and other individual demands. Various workshop offers on the topics of exercise, nutrition and relaxation will be tried out with fun, experience and Adventure, for example by cooking together. Health can be included as a cross-cutting task in the educational work. Creativity of well-being Gathers together all aspects of this Project. It is an creative overview and an opportunity to seal the knowledge.The product manual (ebooklet) makes it possible to make the results of the project usable for schools even after the project has ended. The manual provides suggestions and implementation possibilities to make school a healthier place and to not only make a healthy lifestyle a topic, but to integrate it into everyday life. It is intended to provide support for pupils, teachers, school management and parents on how a healthy lifestyle can be implemented in everyday school life. Other expected results are: Erasmus+ corners, common logo, Twinspace group, partner’s presentations,surveys/presentations, questionnaires, statistics, evaluation forms, Video, seminar e-twinning, Flyers/brochures.
International school partnership programmes contribute to the self-management of the pupils within the framework of project work. In project-based learning, teaching and learning is based on current, practical tasks and on the basis of later professional practice. The students receive or give themselves a task which they work on as a team: a technical problem for which they develop a solution themselves and which they work on with advice, but largely on their own responsibility. In a limited time they have to produce a result that is documented and presented. Project-based learning challenges students, which makes it an excellent tool for developing their personality and talents.
For teachers, internationalisation offers an enrichment of their professional knowledge and their professional motivation is increased, both by accompanying the mobility and through contacts with foreign colleagues. Parental involvement can also increase and intensify. Finally, internationalisation is an important differentiating factor for schools.
The potential longer-term benefits of internationalisation are seen in preparing students to live, learn and work in an international community. It is therefore important that internationalisation is integrated into the curricula and school policies of schools.
Internationalisation prepares students for participation in the international community, they have better opportunities on the international labour market, it promotes teachers’ professional development and enriches the curriculum.
EU Grant (Eur)
Funding of the project from EU: 109731 Eur
Project Coordinator
Berufskolleg Allgemeingewerbe, Hauswirtschaft und Sozialpädagogik des Kreises Siegen-Wittgenstein & Country: DE
Project Partners
- Rapla Gümnaasium
- Istituto Istruzione Superiore Santorre di Santarosa
- Campos