Fair Play: Peace and tolerance by shared intercultural learning through healthy living and S.P.O.R.T.S: Staying healthy – Participation – Olympic Ideal – Respect – Tolerance – Self-Confidence Erasmus Project

Project Title

Fair Play: Peace and tolerance by shared intercultural learning through healthy living and S.P.O.R.T.S: Staying healthy – Participation – Olympic Ideal – Respect – Tolerance – Self-Confidence

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 : Strategic Partnerships for Schools Only

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education; Health and wellbeing

Project Summary

We had a great project together. It supported integration and social inclusion and students got to know high quality skills and competences such as:
-develop every school´s own sports activity
– try out new sports activities in the other countries
-students will develop digital key competences
-learn basic facts about healthy living
-get to know sports facilities in the other countries, and in their own city
Team sports and healthy living were topics that worked with basic language skills, so that all students were able to join our project and felt at home with us. Through sports, team spirit and fair play, students were strengthened and dedicated to find their place in school life.

We interacted and worked together with our partner school´s students and teachers, meet for exchange and transnational meetings. We involved teachers from all different departments of our schools.

The visits were about:
-instructive lessons
-educational visits to factories and sports facilities and business workplaces, where teachers and students learned about about job profiles and future opportunities about life in school, school development or business operations.

All activities and project results have been documented on our project website that included a forum, a privacy-protected teachers´ forum with a password-protected members-only area for exchanging detailed information, schedules and tasks.
We uploaded instructional videos, everyone can learn special moves and games rules. We included a blog written by the students to inform others about the history of the sports
Of course, all results have been published and shared online.

Our objectives were a part of a student´s education and very needful for a future career.
Members of all schools, different classes, and countries, and neighboring schools will be within the project.

Develop new team sports activities:
-Integration of all students participating, fun to play, easy to learn, were a fixed part of our timetables
-every student in our schools (between 11 and 17) is and will be able to play it
-a healthy sport with benefits on the whole body

Departments involved:
-sports departments,
-arts & music departments: composing a hymn, developing and dancing choreographies, creating and designing t-shirts and hoodies as well as logos and flags for the sport as an own corporate design.
-language and mathematics department, as we made advertisements and wrote down rules and blog entries, we also actively wrote down a documentation on the website, such as write down rules for a quick play (as part of an instructional video)
-home economics departments: knowledge in basic nutritional science, instructions on a self-catering farm in England, visit of a salmon farm in Norway, visit of a dairy farm in Germany.

Self-evaluation:
Students filled in several questionnaires about what they know about sports activities, healthy nutrition and job profiles, advantage of sports in general.
After each visit, they got the same questionnaire but their answers had to be more precise every time. By the end of the project they noticed how much they have learned, just by looking in the website and their folder.

Students obtained skills for the future job market.
Language skills are most important for future jobs, students had to write applications for being part of the project as well as for a visit in English language, and that they had to prepare presentations, for example about traditional sports activities in their own country in English.

Develop programming skills:
Students helped developing our website, they created a little programme in Finland
-wrote blog entries
-created digital logos and flags (that have been printed)

Social skills:
-students interacted with the other country´s students
-presented results and presentations to a group
-opened up in interviews or activities in teamwork and fair play sports activities
-had to accept that sports rewards go to the best fair play player in every team has also also been a challenge to students.

Teachers training:
-Sports instructions
-Visit sports facilities
-got in touch with local staff,
-Learned and reflected about healthy living.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 108750 Eur

Project Coordinator

Ludwig-Windthorst-Schule & Country: DE

Project Partners

• Saint Gregory’s Catholic College
• Sodin skole
• Iittalan yhtenäiskoulu