Leverage Inclusion through Healthy Living and Sports Erasmus Project

Project Title

Leverage Inclusion through Healthy Living and Sports

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: Access for disadvantaged; Early School Leaving / combating failure in education; Health and wellbeing

Project Summary

Six basic and secondary schools belonging to Portugal (2 schools), Cyprus, Turkey, Serbia and Macedonia with different realities, but with common interests in improving their working methods, learning methodologies, good practice experiences prepared the strategic partnership “Leverage Inclusion through Healthy Living and Sports “, involving students aged between 6 and 15 years in each school.
According to horizontal and specific priorities in school education, the main objectives of this project are to adapt learning programs in participating schools, considering sports practice, education on healthy lifestyles, inclusion and integration as instruments to achieve these themes. . Make students aware of risky behaviors, providing conditions for increasing civic responsibility, cultural development and self-realization. Ensure equal rights and opportunities for students with disabilities, promote the integration of people of different races and backgrounds and promote equal opportunity for those who have economic difficulties.
The use of non-formal and informal education methods will involve disadvantaged students through more attractive education and training programs.
The themes will be developed over the two years of the project, as a means to promote social inclusion.
The project will be conducted and developed through the action of two work teams composed of teachers and the other of students, who have a central role in the project, organizing the activities in each school.
Web tools will be used to disseminate the project to the public and share experiences between schools, during the project and after the project ends, becoming a space for exchanging information between schools, maintaining contacts and planning other activities, after the conclusion of this project. project.
The learning activities abroad will involve dozens of students, giving them the opportunity to deepen the themes with activities, using informal and non-formal methods, reinforcing their intercultural learning, developing new skills and sharing new skills with their schoolmates thanks to the new capabilities developed, also by comparing the methodologies used in other schools to achieve the project’s objectives. The students involved will play a key role in the project and, after leaving schools, will develop and improve many skills: solving problems, communicating, being a leader and strengthening language skills.
The planning of activities for this project was studied to provide a high level of involvement inside and outside schools, involving communities (family members of all students involved in the activities, pedagogical departments, educators, academics who work with young people at risk, politicians and educational actors who make decisions on issues involving aspects related to education).
The main results of the project will be: greater involvement of students in school activities that implement the strategic use of ICT and other innovative learning methods to reduce early school leaving and include disadvantaged students through more attractive education and training programs. A profound impact on the participating schools is expected, as they will implement working methods through a common approach, exchanging experiences of good practices through social networks, defining innovative practices to modernize learning programs. Implement methods of social inclusion of students with disabilities and enable quality learning for all, in order to avoid school drop-out and promoting more culturally and socially disadvantaged and physically disabled students.
This project has the participation of two schools in Portugal. The reason for this participation is that one of the schools has extensive experience in carrying out activities for students with disabilities. This project wants to be inclusive and this partnership is also a way to promote inclusion, since we have the participation of students with disabilities, physically and mentally moderate and severe in the project.
The presentation of the project in Portuguese has two reasons: 1st – some of the foreign partners have knowledge of the Portuguese language and have shown a willingness to learn more. One of them suggested that the project be in our language, once we have two schools in Portugal and that it should also be translated into English. Thus, the entire project was presented to partners in Portuguese and in English; 2nd – as 2 schools in Portugal participate in this project, and in agreement with all partners in the previous meetings of the project elaboration, it was decided that the project should be presented in the mother tongue of both schools.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 193282 Eur

Project Coordinator

Agrupamento de Escolas de Celorico de Basto & Country: PT

Project Partners

• Agrupamento de Escolas de Idães
• Elementary school of Makarion Hospital
• Sincan-Ahi Evran Ortaokulu
• Primary school NIKOLA KAREV Probishtip
• Pravno-poslovna skola Nis