Eat right – Be smart Erasmus Project

Project Title

Eat right – Be smart

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 2015

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning; ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Health and wellbeing

Project Summary

Healthy diet plays an important role in health promotion and disease prevention. One of the objects of this project was to raise awaress about right eating habits during school age, referring to 10-15 ages which has a great impact on future living to prevent common well fare diseases. Nowadays, changing in life style and lack of nutrition literacy have created unhealthy dietary patterns causing for many non-communicable diseases. Therefore many international institions concentrate on diets and health. According to WHO reports, the major NCDs, such as diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, cancer, chronic respiratory diseases and mental disorders, account for 86 % of deaths and 77 % of the disease.

One of the main aim of this project is to enable our students and teachers to broaden their knowledge about healthy food and develop the ability of making concious choise of healthy eating. The activities are directed at improving students competence in English through the possibility of working with an international team and by hostig students from partner countries during the visits cultural awareness and the desire and necesserity of learning a foreign language will increase. The activities are also directed at improving students competence in acquiring various IT skills in the learning process and also teaching the students to make active health choises.The project have also develop their awareness of the connection between healthy eating and a healthy body and how you can, as a young european, tackle the big challenge of for example obesity and the disaeses followed, wich is a huge European problem today.

For teachers involved the main aim is to discuss teaching methods according to the topic and develop higher skills according to health education. We aim to compare on an European level how the different school systems prioritate the question of healthy eating in the shools. Teachers and schools involved will benifit by getting a higher skills by learning new pedagogical methods in teaching about the importance of healthy living for young Europeans.

In this project about 3700 teachers and students from Turkey, Romania, Lithuania, Portugal, Germany, Italy and Sweden participate.
The school in Swedenwas thecoordinating school and took care of the administration and the dates for the project as it is in progress. Sweden makes a leaflet including a comparision between young peoples eating habits in various parts of Europe and calorie burning.
The school in Germany will distribute our mutual cookery book including recepies, pictures and information from partner countries both digital and in paper form.
The school of Italy took responsibilty of crerating a mutual website and took the responsibility to update our e-twinning account.
The school of Portugal made a calendar illustrated with healthy food.
The school of Lithuania have producede evaluation forms for all the participating institutions and summery the oppinions of the students and other interests of each participating institutions.
The school of Turkey was responsible to prepare surveys and gathering lesson plans about healthy and ecological food from each partner school and distributes it in a binder to the participating countries. Turkey distributed the mutual work book.
The school of Romania took responsibility to prepare a useful guide brochure about food labels and laws about food additives.
Each country was responsible for completing the tasks included in the project and also for planning the visits in respective country. The planning includes some external visits and time to discuss and develop lesson plans connected to the topic. All countries contributes to our mutual Cookery Book and our mutual leaflet including a comparision between young peoples eating habits in various parts of Europe and calorie burning. All countries contributes to the binder with health lessons.

Our project’s outcome were uploaded on e-twinning. and our website. Students have been encouraged to stay in tuoch with their partner students and our as our experience from earlier project shows, teacher too stay in touch with each other after the end of the project. This can create a solid ground for futher cooperation within Europe.

Through the partnership the pupils gained and increased knowledge of IT and a foreign language and greater cultural awareness of the European Union. Pupils learnt the importance of a healthy living to prevent obesity and its outcome, which is a great European problem today.
The students become more confident and convinced of their abilities, are more able to adapt and reach decisions, they know better their strengths and weaknesses.
Teachers know more about different European school systems, teaching methods. They also learnt more different ways of working with IT at school.
This project raised interest in healthy living and provided opportunity for gaining experiences and skills in communication with European citizens.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 71299 Eur

Project Coordinator

Storåskolan & Country: SE

Project Partners

• Escola Básica 2º 3º Ciclos Cónego João Jacinto Gonçalves de Andrade
• Albrecht-Dürer-Mittelschule Hassfurt
• Colegiul National Tudor Vladimirescu
• LICEO SCIENZE UMANE “E.GIANTURCO”
• Silutes r. Juknaiciu pagrindine mokykla
• Ismail Adile Avcan Imam Hatip Ortaokulu