Healthy, Strong, Happy and Motivated Students: Sports in the Digital Age Erasmus Project

Project Title

Healthy, Strong, Happy and Motivated Students: Sports in the Digital Age

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: Disabilities – special needs; Inclusion – equity; Health and wellbeing

Project Summary

The project “Healthy, Strong, Happy and Motivated Students: Sports in the Digital Age” brings together partners from RO, PT, SK, TR and LI who intend to make students aware of the importance of sport in keeping healthy, especially in this age when children spend more time online, which leads socially isolation, obesity, concentration difficulties. The project aims at making students see sport as an attractive alternative of spending free time, making friends, keeping fit, being motivated, as means of increasing energy, motivation, and self-esteem while being a key element in a healthy lifestyle. The project activities are designed to develop students’ awareness of sport, its advantages and disadvantages, learn about healthy lifestyles, get students accustomed to other cultures and mentalities, boost communication skills, enable students to share their own ideas. Students will work in multinational groups to create different sport-based products that will improve their team work, decision-making critical thinking, creativity skills, as well as intercultural collaboration and tolerance.
OBJECTIVES:
1. To raise awareness about the importance of doing physical activity on a regular basis;
2. To promote practicing sport safely and reasonably as a way to improve motivation and self-esteem;
3. To enable students to make elementary analysis of different kinds of sport by taking into account positive and negative aspects
4. To boost critical thinking, creativity and decision making skills
5. To improve interactive and communication skills in international environments
6. To develop multicultural skills and to increase the awareness of belonging to the European community
7. To create a multinational hub of active students from different backgrounds.
8. To create a community of teachers who will engage in promoting the appropriate use of physical activity in the teaching process.
PARTICIPANTS
– 24 students (aged 12-14) in each school are part of the project work group and will be selected at the beginning of the project. One fourth of this number will be disadvantaged students. They will participate in local activities, in in the exchanges and in dissemination activities. In total, there will be 96 students taking part in exchanges.
– 32 teachers teaching PE, social studies, IC, English, who will take part in students’ exchanges and 8 teachers will take part in the joint staff training event. In total, there will be 40 teachers.
MAIN ACTIVITIES
The project is structured to have 4 short-term exchanges of pupils and 1 joint staff training event:
C1 –PT – Physical Education in Schools (joint staff training event)
C2 –LI – Sport – An Attractive Way to Spend Free Time
C3 –TR – The Importance of Doing Sport
C4 –SK – Dangers Connected with Some Sports
C5 –RO – Sport as a Key Element for a Healthy Lifestyle
METHODOLOGY
-Before the exchanges, students will make presentations and materials connected to the topic of the exchange.
-During the exchanges, students will participate in the workshops, lessons, meetings with fitness instructors/sports psychologists/experts, and do outdoors and indoors sports. They will work in multinational groups to create final products connected to the topic of each exchange, visit places related to sports etc.
-During C5 – teachers will create a teachers’ guide on implementing lessons about sports into school curicculum.
– Students will continue their cooperation after the project finishes on online platforms (eTwinning platform, the project website, the project Facebook page).
RESULTS
The project results are tangible and intangible. Intangible results include skills, knowledge and attitudes acquired. They will learn how to make an online calendar, a film, an e-book and photo-stories. They will greatly improve their English and ICT skills. They will boost their critical thinking, creativity, decision making, communication and team work skills. Their self-esteem, intercultural skills and ability to express personal opinions will improve. They will become more tolerant and more open-minded.
The tangible results include Powerpoint presentations, videos, materials from workshops, photos, posters, questionnaires, the project dissemination platforms. Final products include a film, an online calendar, an e-book and photo-stories connected to the topic of the project made by students, as well as the teachers’ guide made by teachers.
IMPACT
– Schools will implement new approaches to teaching PE and educate their students to have a healthy lifestyle. They will learn to implement Erasmus+ projects and increase European dimension.
– Students will be healthier, have higher self-esteem and confidence, be more focused and motivated, which may lead to better academic results
– Teachers will develop their professional competences and become more motivated
– Schools will increase their prestige in the local community, learning will get more attractive and early school-leaving will decrease.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 148516 Eur

Project Coordinator

Scoala Gimnaziala Ionel Teodoreanu Iasi & Country: RO

Project Partners

• Základná škola Eleny Maróthy Šoltésovej
• Agrupamento de Escolas Vieira de Araújo
• Silute district Vainutas gimnasium
• MEHMET AKIF INAN IMAM HATIP ORTAOKULU