Help Everyone Achieve Lifelong Total Health Erasmus Project

Project Title

Help Everyone Achieve Lifelong Total Health

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 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Creativity and culture; Health and wellbeing; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

The Helping Everyone Achieve Lifelong Total Health project, or H.E.A.L.T.H., comprises many goals. The first two words “helping everyone” comprise our first goal: that of spreading information and furthering the dissemination of health information from a previous project. Our current work has grown out of a previous Erasmus+ project, “Health Education for Life,” which produced an international, multi-lingual, cross-curricular workbook designed to promote healthy living. Our plan is to expand the influence of this workbook by adding a supplemental digital library of related websites, and to encourage students to experience the benefits of healthy living through cross-cultural practices. We also chose the word “achieve” because we believe that a healthy lifestyle does not happen accidentally, and is worth working toward. We want to create a sustainable health curriculum for our students that will encourage their lifelong learning about healthy living, and seeking out opportunities to improve their health. The final adjective “total” in reference to health is a reference to our belief that health is not simply eating well or going to the gym, but the complete mind-body-spirit experience, including stress release, helping others, and maintaining healthy relationships with others and ourselves.
Our main objective is to promote open education and digital practices as we want to share the quality materials online with all-new international partners; additionally, we want to improve the sustainability and quality of our project work by reusing and updating the project materials we helped to create 3 years ago. We also plan to involve students in both the creation of material and the sharing of material. Another goal of our project is to promote the teaching professions, and we plan to do so with student-developed, student-led seminars between the meetings of students. During these, teachers will step into the background and serve as mentors and guides, rather than the primary educators. It is our hope that students will come to a better appreciation of teaching when they are asked to do it themselves. In addition to Hungary, the coordinating country, we have four international partners: Romania, Italy, Spain, and Slovenia. Each country will bring its own culture to the project in the form of healthy activities, healthy foods, and innovative teaching practices. Each country is represented by a high school, and the main project work will be completed by students of the ages 15-18. Teachers will provide mentoring, support, and advice; however, we hope to encourage the teenagers to take up leadership roles in developing a new health curriculum for their peers.
Methodology: Students will have weekly meetings where they deal with different aspects of our topic health, do the tasks in the workbook, prepare for the meetings, do web researches, surveys, and make presentations. They will exchange information through various on-line tools with the partners.
There will be one training course for teachers and 5 students’ exchanges, where we will focus on particular aspects of health education such as The effects of social media on health in Atri,
Healthy foods, special diets, meal planning for health in Cluj-Napoca, Disease and injury prevention, hygiene, and first aid in Leganes, Professional and Amateur sport; the importance of exercise; doping in Skofja Loka, Mental Health and stress management in Kőszeg. Between the mobilities students will serve as teachers themselves, teaching their peers and making new teaching materials from a student’s perspective thus practising the teaching profession and learning by doing.
Results: logo, website, videos, posters, digital library of tools, students’ own educational online materials, media articles, recipe book, surveys, digital magazines/newsletters, PPT and Prezi presentations on their town/region
Participating schools will have an access to all the online tools that are being created through the two years as well as the existing workbook on health. The tasks can be and will be used to teach young people about health issues in different subjects thus the project is an excellent example for the interdisciplinary. The actual exchanges will be essential in the multilingual communication of the partners, the mutual understanding of students from different nations. Students and teachers will combine work, fun and knowledge in an effort to realize their common European identity. During the two years they will have the opportunity to improve their competencies.
To sum up, this project will certainly awaken and foster a sense of awareness for their health and will help make individuals lead a healthier lifestyle. To make the results available for a large audience we are going to choose a wide variety of tools to disseminate the findings and outputs of the project ensuring long-term results and impacts.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 158348 Eur

Project Coordinator

Jurisich Miklós Gimnázium és Kollégium & Country: HU

Project Partners

• Gimnazija Skofja Loka
• Instituto de enseñanza secundaria JULIO VERNE
• Liceul Unitarian János Zsigmond
• POLO LICEALE “LUIGI ILLUMINATI”