“Health 4.0” – health at school emplies health in professional life Erasmus Project

Project Title

“Health 4.0” – health at school emplies health in professional life

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: Quality Improvement Institutions and/or methods (incl. school development); Health and wellbeing

Project Summary

The project “Health 4.0 – Health in school also means health in professional life” was launched because of the changing social, educational and economic conditions for pupils, which affect the physical and psychological health in their life. Against the background of globalisation, technological change and, in particular, the development towards the fourth industrial revolution (Industry 4.0), not only technology but also human beings must become more and more efficient, flexible and faster.
This, as we have been able to prove in our vocational schools, led to various situations that affect the health of the pupils. For this purpose, solutions should be found and teaching modules should be developed that sensitize students for the topic of health maintenance and provide them with precise methodes in order to deal with this problem in everyday life.
Students should learn at an early stage that healthy eating, exercise and self-responsibility as well as time and self-management for stress management contribute to mental and physical fitness in the increasingly fast-paced world.
The selected five partner schools from Austria, Luxembourg, Poland, Norway and Germany are all vocational schools. Each individual school had already identified the above mentioned problem and worked it out on the basis of various priorities. This project linked the already developed concepts of the individual schools and created a holistic student health concept in relation to the changing society. In a first step, the actual state of the school was collected with a questionnaire developed by the project partners. After that, improvements in the individual schools with regard to exercise, healthy eating and stress management (addiction prevention) were collected.
A moving break concept was the focus of attention, in order to offer students a range of exercises during the entire day of the vocational school. A nutrition concept based on fresh fruit and healthy eating was also taken into consideration. However, an important block was certainly also connected with a rethinking of school culture, as teachers teach students healthy behaviour. Therefore, theories and models were also considered in order to reconsider and, if necessary, adapt behaviors.
Teacher health also played a not insignificant role.
In the long term, this project has helped to develop and establish a holistic health concept in the partner schools in order to offer pupils support that helps to vanish the above mentioned, negative effects on health in the age of “Industry 4.0” and thereby give other schools suggestions for implementation. This was done with the help of a European Health Day. The concept for this day was developed and concretized by the project partners. The project partners decided to have the European Health Day on the Europe Day 2019 in order to achieve a wide reach.
More than 300 students from Germany and the partner countries took part on this day. After a concert reading, the students were allowed to take part in various workshops which dealed with stress management, exercise, nutrition, self-responsibility, addiction prevention and time management. These workshops were the results from the project partners’ modules and were previously tested in the schools before.
During the breaks there were healthy smoothies and fair trade snacks. In addition, a museum tour was presented, which presented the specifics of the partner countries in dealing with the topic “Health at School”.
The concept of this day has proved to be very efficient because it had a great acceptance among the students and gave them the planned concepts and methods for dealing with their own health.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 82000 Eur

Project Coordinator

Rudolf-Rempel-Berufskolleg, kaufmännische Schule der Stadt Bielefeld & Country: DE

Project Partners

• Flekkefjord videregående skole
• International Business College BHAK 12
• Zespol Szkol Ekonomicznych im. M. Sklodowskiej- Curie w Rzeszowie
• Lycée Technique d’Ettelbruck