LEARNING THROUGH SPORTS Erasmus Project

Project Title

LEARNING THROUGH 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 : Strategic Partnerships for school education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2015

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Health and wellbeing; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation

Project Summary

Sports are vital to the holistic development of young people as it fosters their physical, social and emotional health. Sports also build habits that a life long practice to implement healthy life style. That’s why we have aimed to spread sports in our schools/institutions via our Project “Learning Through Sports”. Since we believe that sports have a great value to lessen drop out rate, implement cooperation and integration, raise self esteem, improve motor skills also in students with special needs and in disabled students.
The project has helped to incorporate the values and characteristics of sports into the school environment such as team work, obeying the rules, respecting others and leadership.
And also, the increase of cultural diversity in our society makes sports more important to develop relationships to promote awareness across the European Union and beyond of cultural and linguistic differences and to breakdown racism, prejudice and xenophobia that can and on occasions exist in our society and unfortunately at our schools.
We have reached the following objectives by running our project ” Learning Through Sports”:
– to promote cooperation among EU countries by sharing/exchanging of good practices of sports combining with the academic career and life long learning, and transferring non-formal methods out of schools into the curriculum,
-to evolve, raise interest and implement the sport practices in the field of education and to increase attainment levels,
-to promote entrepreneurship education and social entrepreneurship among young people through developing new methods and techniques
– to explore the meaning , relevance and potential of students in sports field for increasing youth /students employability,
-to support integration of immigrant students by getting over xenophobia and prejudice via sportive activities,
-to support healthy style of living (as a prevention of overweight-obesity, lifestyle diseases, drug abuse…)
– to get to know national sports in involving countries (art,history, keeping the national sports in the society, implementation into school curriculums,meeting the best national sportsmen/sportswomen)
In our project there were 7 different educational institutes: 2 directorates, 1 NGO, 1 High School, 2 Secondary Schools and 1 Health College
Since there were 7 different educational institutes that have rich backgrounds and project experience in the partnership, the harmony of these values gained a new horizon with this project and reached a wide range of people including teachers,students, their families or any Life Long Learners. 70 students, 142 teachers/ trainers and managers directly participated in the mobilities and approximately 50 teachers/trainers, 200 students and their parents took part in local activities
During the project we did the following activities to reach our goals:
-Interviewing with the teachers, trainers, students and other attendees took part in the project activities with the aim of gathering opinions on the quality of implementation would be one of the project outputs. This activity ensured whether the activities were well-organized, professional and enough to meet their claim or not.
– A quality free time guide (leaflet) prepared. (prepared in 6 partners’ languages, printed, handed out to most schools in the regions and uploaded on the project website (http://www.letsports.eu/,http://letsports.eu/) facebook platform (https://www.facebook.com/letsportseu)
– The innovative ideas in the curricula was implemented in the school curricula.
Since we believe sport is vital to the holistic development of young people as it fosters their physical, social and emotional health, our project was disseminated over the largest and the most various number as possible of our students. Also, the benefits of sport reached beyond the impact on physical well-being and we did not under-estimate the value of the educational benefits of sport at all.
This project was a good opportunity for both educators and students/learners to improve their communicative and personal skills. We believe that it was a unique experience for both teachers and students to broaden their minds and horizons. The students could learn what it means to be a citizen of Europe and understand multicultural societies.
Innovation is guaranteed by emphasis on cross-curricular learning among compulsory school subjects (P.E., Maths, English,Science etc.) optional Sport Courses, students’ participation and by emphasis on practical application on theoretical knowledge of sports.
The project also complemented the extending sport practice at school to a life long practice to implement a healthy life style.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 199168 Eur

Project Coordinator

DATCA ILCE MILLI EGITIM MUDURLUGU & Country: TR

Project Partners

• ZWIAZEK STOWARZYSZEN MULTIKULTURA
• 2o GENIKO LYKEIO NEAS IONIAS MAGNISIAS
• Stredni zdravotnicka skola a Vyssi odborna skola zdravotnicka, Nymburk, Soudni 20
• Dalaman Oztas Anadolu Lisesi
• DIEFTHINSI DEFTEROVATHMIAS EKPAIDEFSIS MAGNISIAS
• Scuola secondaria di primo grado Borgese-XXVII Maggio